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Pre-Conference Workshop - Mobile User Experiences: How to Design Usable and Customer-Centric Mobile Systems and Applications

7th November 2005

Led by USECON – The Usability Consultants GmbH
Since the emergence of mobile data services, the industry has faced the challenge of providing systems and applications that exploit the possibilities of ever-more powerful high-performance terminals and technologies on the one hand, and meet customer and user needs on the other. It is only a consideration of both the technological and usage-related possibilities and constraints that will lead to the kind of mobile systems and applications that will finally survive on the market. Within this workshop, attendees will learn strategies regarding usability and user interactions in order to deliver high-quality, customer-centric mobile systems and applications.
09.30 Registration
10.00 Morning Session (includes networking/refreshment break)
  • Challenges and specifics of user interfaces for mobile systems and applications
  • Device-heterogeneity and emerging technologies and its impact on the usability
  • The basic elements of high-quality, customer-centric mobile user interfaces
12.30 Lunch
13.00 Afternoon Session (includes networking/refreshment break)
  • Strategies for incorporating usability methods into product and systems development
  • Crafting mobile user experiences through user-centric techniques
  • Case studies on the impact and success of usability-enhanced mobile services
16.00 End of Workshop

USECON is an internationally active consultancy specialised in the fields of usability, user interface design, and user experience and helps its clients optimise their interactive systems, products and solutions.

The Vienna-based company was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from the Center for Usability Research & Engineering (CURE), with which it closely cooperates in order to offer state-of-the-art scientific know-how to the industrial community.

Bernhard Ferro, Consultant, USECON

Bernhard is responsible for carrying out and managing user experience projects with a focus and specialisation in mobile services and technologies. He has broad experience in the areas of information design, development and usability engineering for more than eight years, and had serviced companies such as Nokia Alps and mobilkom austria.

Presented By:

Peter Messner, Managing Consultant, USECON

Peter Messner

Peter is responsible for setting up user experience projects, their coordination and project management, as well as the further development of user experience consulting services. He has been active in the field of usability engineering for more than seven years, also as research project manager with CURE, participating in projects at the forefront of European research. He lectures at a multitude of business fairs, schools, and international conferences.

Manfred Tscheligi Professor for Human-Computer Interaction & Usability, University of Salzburg, ICT&S Center Founder & Director, CURE Founder, Co-owner & Managing Director, USECON
Peter Messner

Manfred has been active in the area of interactive systems, human-computer interaction and usability engineering for more than 15 years. He has done pioneering work in this field and established it both in university education, as a research field, and as an industrially applied field in Austria.

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