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World Usability Day, Bangalore, 2007

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Nov 5, 2007 3 pm to 7 pm

NIAS Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

What is World Usability Day?
Event schedule
When and Where?
Sponsorship
Planners
Participants

What is Usability?

It Measures User Expectations.

What is World Usability Day?

World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. WUD focuses on raising awareness and visibility of usability and user-centered design and is organized every year by volunteers and local event coordinators from around the world. Whether usability professionals or just enthusiastic (or frustrated) users, each participant makes a contribution to making life easy.

On Nov 5, 2007, World Usability Day Bangalore will be hosted at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

The event is being organized and supported by UPA Bangalore, CHI Bangalore, leading usability companies, and usability enthusiasts. The event will include designers, technologists, usability professionals and public attendees.

WUD Bangalore 2007 will focus on applying ‘usability’ and ‘design’ thinking to making life easier and more usable for the common man (us!) in India. Among other areas the event will focus on Healthcare, Education, and Government Services and other public services and utilities that touch our lives everyday. It will include how Information and Communication Technologies and services can make this happen.

Event Schedule

Time	Topic	Introduction
3:00 pm	Introduction to World Usability Day	Amit, Sarit, WUD working team
3:10 pm	Acid Test Results – Results of usability testing of public services websites including Indian Railways	Sarit Arora
3:40 pm	Design and Social Equity	Prof M. P. Ranjan (NID)
4:10 pm	Design of Community PC – Perspectives	Dr. Girish Prabhu (Intel)
4:45 – 5:30 pm	Design workshop – New public services
5:30 – 6:00 pm	Discussions, food, and photo sessions
6:00 – 6:30 pm	Technologies for Indian’s bottom of pyramid	Sean Blagsvedt (Babajob)
6:30 – 7:00 pm	ICT in healthcare area in Karnataka	Dr. Reynold Washington , Gururaj H (Karnataka Health Trust)

When?

November 5, 2007 | 3 pm to 7 pm

Where?

NIAS Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science

Update (05 November 2007)

Due to the rally organized by BJP around the Palace Road, the route leading to WUD venue might be choked. Couple of alternative routes are listed below:

1. Via Malleshwaram

2. Via Outer Ring Road

Please avoid the following places - Rajbhavan Road, Mekri Circle and Palace Road

Here is a Google Maps version

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What will happen?

(World Usability Day Bangalore will be continuously updated at http://upabangalore.org and http://chibangalore.mypublicsquare.com/view/world-usability-day )

Acid Test:

A team of usability professionals will be conducting usability testing of public services websites including the Indian Railways and the Indian Airlines in October. The results from this public usability study will be shared with the audience to raise awareness about the usability of public services.

Presentations and talks by experts:

Hear from real world experts who have tried to make a difference in public services including healthcare, e- governance and the healthcare space. Also, we will have experts who will bring in the focus of usability and how it can make a difference in the public services and healthcare in India and the emerging markets. Speaker bios will be uploaded shortly to the Wiki.

Workshop on designing new public services:

Participants will be divided into groups and given the challenge of designing new services around the theme of “"How usability can impact public services and healthcare in India". They will be provided with materials for brainstorming and data points and constraints for informing their designs. The panel of experts will judge the best entry at the event – the winning team will be given a special award.

Raves, Rants, and Ramblings: (Impromptu presentations, discussions, food, and photo sessions).

The event will contain several opportunities for breaking into smaller groups where people from the community can present and discuss issues or new methods. There will be spaces for informal community discussions, idea sharing and networking.

(World Usability Day Bangalore will be continuously updated at http://upabangalore.org and http://chibangalore.mypublicsquare.com )

Sponsorship

Sponsorships are now closed.

The event is being sponsored with the support of Cisco, Google, and Human Factors International.

See more event details in the attached PDF

WUD_PDF.pdf

Planners

Amit Pande, pande.amit@gmail.com
Sarit Arora, sarit@humanfactors.com
Muthu Online, muthuonline@gmail.com |9845913990
Rahul Arora, rahul.arora@honeywell.com
Navneet Nair, navneet.nair@gmail.com
Sudhindra V, sudhindra.v@humanfactors.com
Suresh, cre8tvt@gmail.com
Iqbal A, iqbal@humanfactors.com
Anand, anand@humanfactors.com
Revathi, revathi dot nathaniel at oracle dot com

Participants

Sandeep Karmarkar, sandeep.karmarkar at gmail dot com
Abhijith Rao, abhijith.rao at gmail dot com
Rashmi Sethi, rashmivsethi at yahoo dot com
Suraj Naik, suraj.naik@tcs.com
Ramjee Ganti, ganti.ratgmaildotcom http://sodidi.blogspot.com
Guruprasad S Narayana, yesguru@yahoo.com
Sreekumar P, sreekumar_p@hotmail.com
Yatin Sethi, yatin.sethi at gmail
Preeti Saluja, preeti.saluja@gmail.com
Prasanna B K, Prasanna.bk@gmail.com
Gaurav Bhargva gaurav.bhargva@gmail.com
Tabita, tabita.k@humanfactors.com
Vivek Dhage, vivek@humanfactors.com
Shibu Prabhakaran, apple_chutney@yahoo.com
Madhura Palshikar, madhura.p@humanfactors.com
Nisha Rana, nisha.r@humanfactors.com
Anand Kumar V http://www.symphonyservices.com
Moorthy S Venkatraman http://www.symphonyservices.com
Abraham VA, Nous Infosystems vaabraham@gmail.com
Ankur Richchariya, ankur@humanfactors.com
Shyam L, shyaml@yahoo.com
Suneet Suthan, suneet.suthan@humanfactors.com
Samrat Mondal, samrat.mondal@cognizant.com
Ajay Kemparaj , ajaykemparaj at gmail dot com
Abhijit Kr. Bairagi, abhijit.bairagi@gmail.com
Nitin Mehta, mehta_nm@yahoo.com
Kumaramanikandan
Deepak, deepakd.com
Kunal Kapoor, kunal.k@humanfactors.com
Avinash Patange, avinash.patange@hp.com
Amit Arora, amit.arora.78@gmail.com
Sameer Dwivedi, sameer.dwivedi@gmail.com
Guna Sekaran, gunasekaran.sj@gmail.com
Rajeev C, rajeev.chavati@cognizant.com
Anil Kumar K A, anilkumar.aravindakshan@cognizant.com
Balan T, balan.thangamani@cognizant.com
Vinod Kumar M, vinod.kumar3@cognizant.com
Raghu Ram, raghu.ram@cognizant.com
Laxmi M H, laxmi.halli@cognizant.com
Sampath Kumar, sampath.kumar@cognizant.com
Vinay K P, kpvinay84@gmail.com
Umesh Gopinath, mail@umeshgopinath.com
Manish Kumar, manish.k@humanfactors.com
Madhu Sudanan
Aditi Kashikar, akashika at interwoven dot com
Hrish Thota, hrish dot thota at gmail dot com
Suma Rani, suma dot shades at gmail dot com
Navdeep Raj, 3drockz@gmail.com
Navin Raj, midart@gmail.com
Manish, manish612@gmail.com
Ranish Chirayil, ranishchirayil@gmail.com
Ajay Swamy, dream99studio@gmail.com
Pratap Krishna, pratap.x@gmail.com
Narasimhan - narasimhan.sk@gmail.com
Bhavna - bhavna.bhargava@gmail.com
Rajesh Kumar - mailboxofrajesh@gmail.com
Bhakti Khandekar - mailboxof@gmail.com
Peter Schlampp - Cisco Systems
Galeel Bhasha - Sapient, gbhasha at gmail dot com
Sanu George, sanugeorge@gmail.com
Paramveer Singh, paramveersin@yahoo.com
Ganesh GV, gvganesh@tataelxsi.co.in
Upma Sharma, sharma.upma@gmail.com
Sanjeevakumar Hiremath, Accenture Technology Labs, s dot hiremath at accenture dot com
vidya sr, Vidya.SR@cognizant.com
Sumathi PB, Sumathi.PB@cognizant.com
Uday urs, UdayThejaswi.URS@cognizant.com
Sowrirajan M, Keane, Inc
Jeevanath G, Keane, Inc
Deepak Devadasan,Keane Inc, deepak.devadasan@keane.com
Shanmugam P, Keane, Inc
Terrence, Keane, Inc
Meera MV, Keane, Inc
Shalini S, Keane, Inc
Reshma Rajkumar, Keane, Inc
Immanual Williams, Keane, Inc
Anand Shekar, Keane, Inc
Amrutraj Pujari, Oracle
Rony Philip, philiprony@gmail.com
Boudewijn van Duijvenbode, boudewyn@gmail.com
Jayaganesh, bluejay0018@yahoo.co.in
Thomas Augustin, augustin@earth.org
Rob Simons, Rob@earth.org
Teresa Brandstetter, teresa@earth.org
Saurabh Minni, Blog, saurabh.minni A@t Gm@i.com
Ganesh APP, sagaro@gmail.com, 09884366837
Santhosh, mnsanthoshkumar@gmail.com
vinay, vinayhosamani AT gmail DOT com, iBlog@
shilpa, Shilpajsridhar@gmail.com
Arumugapandian, sixfacepandian@gmail.com
Pradeep Desai, pradeep.desai@tcs.com
Jayalaxmi Dinni, jayadinni@gmail.com
Vijay Kumar, vijay.ginji@gmail.com
Avinash Patel, 4avinashp@gmail.com
simarjeet singh ahuja, simarjeet.des@gmail.com
Subash Babu, subash.asokan@citrix.com
Krishna Prasad www.moydi.net , Vodafone, Germany
Vikram Rao, graphicsvisualizer@yahoo.com
Prince Antony, princea@gmail.com
Raghava Kotekar, raghava_kotekar@yahoo.com
Vishal Hemanth V, vishal@cpdm.iisc.ernet.in
Monica Shukla, monica.shukla@ge.com
Roshni ,roshni.ramnani@gmail.com
Krishnakumar, kumar.sange@gmail.com
Ravi Mohan, ravimohan555@gmail.com
Prabhakar Varma, prabhakar.varma@gmail.com
Roopa V Rao, roopavrao@hotmail.com
Venkateswara Rao Venkatesh151@yahoo.com
Kiran Karthikeyan, kiran.karthikeyan@gmail.com
Samuel, netisam@yahoo.com
Pravin Roberts, pravin@humanfactors.com
Rakesh Barua, rakeshb@azimpremjifoundation.org
Arvind Hebbur, arvind dot hv at accenture dot com
Mahesh Shantaram, ms@thecontrarian.in
Suhas Chavan, suhaschavan@g-c-i.com
Raghavendra HS, aquarag@yahoo.com
Arun Ganesh, arunganesh03@gmail.com
Subin Anand, subinanand@gmail.com
Somonath Patra, 'Sapient', spatra@sapient.com
Pravat Ranjan Rana, 'Sapient', prana2@sapient.com
Hemalatha Balraj, 'Sapient', hbalraj@sapient.com
Ramya Rajamuthu Chidambaram, 'Sapient', rchidambaram@sapient.com
Pragya Nalawade, 'Sapient', pnalawade@sapient.com
Vivekanand R vivekanand.rangaswamy@wipro.com
manjujpn@gmail.com
gaurav.srivastsava@gmail.com
harikrishnanc at gmail dot com
Sridhar Rao,srao dot sridhar at wipro dot com
labsji at gmail dot com
menonsraghu at rediffmail dot com
subbzs5@yahoo.co.in
Manjunath JPN
Anand, 'Steadfast'
Krishna Raj. S krishnadotrajs at yahoodotcom
Namitha Ranjith , namitha.ranjith@gmail.com
Gaurav Srivastava
Sachin Tiwari , tiwarisac@gmail.com
Sanish Singh, CareerXperts Consulting sanish@careerxperts.com
Harikrishnan
Mohan Krishnaraj mohan.krishnaraj at wipro dot com
Nilesh nbwal at yahoo dot com
Gaurabh Mathure, gaurabh@desolve.co.in
Jayan Muralidharan, m.jayan@gmail.com
Prithvi, Prithvi.gowda@wipro.com
ThiyagaRajan, http://rajan.wordpress.com
Balaji Sowmyanarayanan
Harish Kumar, HarishKumarM at gmail dot com
Himanshu Mishra, himanshu.mech@gmail.com
P Somasekhar Reddy, pssreddy_25@yahoo.co.in
Raghu Menon
Rashmi , rashmi_padmanabha@mindtree.com
Subramanya
Rajmohan Banavi - rajmohanbanavi@gmail.com
Dominic Pereira - dominicp@gmail.com
Sapna J - saps2212@yahoo.com
Siddarth Gaonkar s i d d a r t h g @ g m a i l . c o m
Sheshagiri V - sheshagiri.v@gmail.com
Deepak Bajaj - deepak.bajaj@wipro.com
Raghuram Ashok - raghuram.ashok@gmail.com
Rinchan, rinchan at gmail dot com
Saurabh Narula - reachsaurabhnarula@gmail.com
Akash P Goswami- akashpg@gmail.com
Afshan Kirmani: afshankirmani@gmail.com
Mohan: mohankumar.venkatakrishnan at oracle.com
Balachandar Muruganantham
Parameswaran Venkataraman, Onward Research + Consulting
Medha Deshpande - me.deshpande@gmail.com
Rajiv Chandrabhanu - rajiv.chandrabhanu@gmail.com
Nandakishore K N - nandakishorekn@renaissance-it.com
Ramnath Ramachandran - ramnath.r@renaissance-it.com
Praneet Koppula- praneet.reddy@humanfactors.com
Mahalakshmi - mahalakshmi@humanfactors.com
Agradoot Ghatak - agradoot_ghatak@mindtree.com
Samita Bhandary - samita.bhandary@in.ibm.com
Arun Vijayan - arunvijayanatgmaildotcom
Siddharth - wud at cfx dot e4ward dot com
R Pooran Prasad - pooran at zealousnet dot in
Manu Raveendran - manuraveendran at gmail dot com
Rahul Madhekar - rahul.madhekar@renaissance-it.com
VEENA PATIL - veena_patil@mindtree.com
Shami Raj | shamiraj@gmail.com
Chirag Patel - chirag_zealous at yahoo dot co dot in
Ravikaanth - ravi.kaanth@wipro.com
Prabhakaran Mani - prabhakaran.mani@ionidea.com
Subbarao Ivaturi, Cisco
Ravi Kumar B N Freelance Consultants
Sairam Rajagopal , 'Aditi', sairamr at gmail dot com
Radha Rajgopal Tupil, NIIT Technologies | radha.srinivasan@niit-tech.com
Udayan Banerjee, NIIT Technologies | udayan.banerjee@niit-tech.com
Prasanna | msprasanna@gmail.com
Ramesh Subramaniam | rsubramaniam@covansys.com
Snehal Hannurkar - hannurkarsk@gmail.com
Pushkaraj Karakat- architectpushkar@gmail.com
Koti - koti03@gmail.com
Kratika Verma - kratika.lca@gmail.com
Shaji Mathew mats@websickle.com
Sameer Bhiwani - Oracle | sameer dot bhiwani at oracle dot com
Nikhil Chandran - nicky82@gmail.com
Ankur Sardana, ankur.sardana@honeywell.com
Riddhi Chokhawala, Riddhi.Chokhawala@Honeywell.com
Mahesh Jagirdar, mahesh.jagirdar@gmail.com
Santhosh M N, mnsanthoshkumar@gmail.com
Jatin Shah jatinshah99 at gmail dot com
Sujith R Warrier sujith_rw at yahoo dot co dot in
Rama ramavasudevan_2004@yahoo.com
Rajesh Gouthaman, rgoutham at interwoven dot com
Vinodh kumar.N, vinodh.n.kuamr [at] gmail [dot] com
Gururaja Hayavadana, h_gururaj@yahoo.com
Arul Prabhu, arulayee@gmail.com
Mohit gupta, mohit.ed@hotmail.com
Priya, priyacrao at gmail dot com
Shalini Krishnan, shal.krish@gmail.com
Vijesh, vijesh.world@gmail.com
Jayesh, jayeshaddress@gmail.com
Nishta Pangle, nishthapangle@gmail.com | Tekriti Software, Gurgaon, Haryana
Ram Singh, ram_shekhawat@yahoo.com | SPAN Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Usha Patri, Usha dot vikas dot patri at oracle dot com
Thava Alagu, thavamuni at yahoo - com
Nimish Vohra, nimishvohra at gmail dot com, nvohra at regalix-inc dot com
Arun A B , Tata Elxsi Ltd , arun@tataelxsi.co.in
Rajarajan R, CTS, rkrajarajan@gmail.com
Nithya Ramakrishnan, nithya.ramakrishnan@accenture.com
Abhi Hupare, Intel, abhihupare@gmail.com
Praveen M Kinathy, Praveen.Kinathy@Telelogic.com, macleo71@gmail.com
mainak ghosh, mainakg_hosh@yahoo.com, mainak.ghosh@iwpro.com,
Divahar Lal, divaharlal@gmail.com
Sajesh P. Jose, sajesh.jose@gmail.com
Lakshmesh Prabhu, lakkiroy@gmail.com | www.laksonline.com
Rammohan Reddy, mohanramsmail@gmail.com