I will be facilitating a panel at the 67th Human Factors & Ergonomics Society annual meeting on Wednesday, in Washington, DC. The panel will be one of the featured sessions for User Experience Day, a dedicated track of programming specifically geared for UX professionals.
The panel topic is “Advances in UX Research & Practice” and will be structured around my 4 aspects of UX (that evolved from my UX Spins roadshow).
A panel of User Experience practitioners will discuss trends (such as AI) that affect UX research and practice. We will frame our conversations around advances in:
- Types of experiences people have with technology
- Methods, processes, and tools we use to define, design, and deliver great experiences for users
- Organizational capabilities to manage customer, employee, and other user experiences
- Communities of interest/practice and professional institutions where we study, teach, and learn UX
I am excited to have Andrew Morgan, Danielle Cooley, Duane Degler, & Stacy Merrill Surla joining me! We have been meeting regularly for a few months to get to know each other, discuss various topics, and evolve the panel format.
When I was asked to host a panel session of UX practitioners, I thought it would be a great opportunity to “cross-fertilize”: get UX colleagues who live in the DC area to spend a day at an HFES conference. Panelists get to attend a conference they normally do not get to, with Wednesday sessions on nuclear power plants, voting, aerospace, AI in healthcare, virtual reality, automated driving, and a whole lot more.
Attendees get to hear from people who they do not normally get to talk with. As several discipline diagrams in the slides show, we are in closely-related practices, but we don’t spend enough time with each other.
The panel has lots of interesting stories to tell about UX as impressions, activities, capabilities, and communities. I am sure we will get great questions and insights from the HFES crowd. Should be a win-win.
October 27, 2023 update: My Day with Human Factors Engineers, recap of the day, posted on LinkedIn.
