ERGOSIGN Blog

This year the annual conference of the Usability Professionals' Association is taking place for the first time outside of the United States. From May 24th to 28th 2010 a variety of presentations, tutorials and workshops is hosted in Munich under the theme Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience Design for the World.

ERGOSIGN contributes to this conference with two presentations:

A Best Practice Approach to the Design of Natural User Interfaces

by Prof. Dr. Dieter Wallach and Martin Radvak
Usability Fundamentals Track, Thursday , 27th of May at 1:30 PM

Natural user interfaces, especially multi-touch systems, are becoming increasingly established in productive scenarios in which "classical" GUIs turn out to be less appropriate. This presentation describes guiding solutions for the arising conceptual and user-centred design challenges focussing on the platform and posture of tabletop-based systems like Microsoft Surface.

Establishing Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Field of User Centered Design

by Dr. Marcus Plach, Sebastian C. Scholz, Aurobinda Pradhan and Jayaram Srinivasan
Experienced Practitioners Track, Thursday, 27th of May at 4:15 PM

A process of establishing collaboration between a German and an Indian UCD service provider is presented, built on principles of modern communication theory: By following five phases gradually common ground was reached, allowing both partners to control the growth of trust and mutual understanding – eventually to deliver successful cross-cultural UCD projects.

We look forward to meet you at UPA2010 in Munich!