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Online videos: Engaging your users
Source: Webcredible, 6 September 2008
A guide to using online video on your site to offer more enticing content and provide a more compelling user experience.
The Office of the Future?
Source: Occupational Hazards via Ergonomics in the News, 5 September 2008
The office of the future is less about technology and more about physiology.
This year's 10 best-designed Application User Interfaces
Source: NNg, 4 September 2008
Nielsen Norman Group recently announced the winners in its inaugural competition to find the 10 best-designed application user interfaces of the Application Design Annual 2008.
Caroline's Corner: Buttons on Forms - where to put them, and what to call them
Source: Caroline Jarrett, 3 September 2008
Caroline JarrettShould you put the ‘OK’ button to the left or the right of the ‘Cancel’ button? Like so much in forms, the simple answer isn’t really appropriate. And yet, who needs another ‘it depends’?
Three Usability Gurus
Source: avangate blog, 2 September 2008
A personal view, but lots of good links, especially if you're new to usability.

Jobs

Research Consultant – London
Deadline: 12 September 2008
 
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the cutting-edge of user experience – phunQube is much more than just another usability agency. Exceptional candidates at all levels welcome.

Interaction Designer, Team Lead - London
Deadline: 14 September 2008
 
World leading broadcast and media organisation seeks User Experience Consultant to provide user experience leadership on mobile, web and interactive TV projects.

Information Architect - Norwich, UK
Deadline: 15 September 2008
 
Based in the beautiful county of Norfolk - where by all accounts they're having a heat wave - my client is a leading provider of Insurance and Financial services to consumers and business.


Events

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Seminar: User experience in Online Travel
Date: 11 September 2008
 
In conjunction with Travolution, Webcredible is running a free seminar on the influences and user experience in online travel booking

The Oxford eResearch Conference 2008 - Oxford, UK
Date: 11 September 2008 to 13 September 2008
 
This conference seeks to stimulate and inform multi-disciplinary research on the development, use and implications of information and communication technologies in shaping research across the disciplines.


Paper Calls

CfP: HuCom 2008
Deadline: 17 September 2008
 
First International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation

CfP: Special Issue - Enculturating Human Computer Interaction (AI & Society)
Deadline: 30 September 2008
 
Call for papers: Special Issue - Enculturating Human Computer Interaction, Journal of AI & Society.

CfP: Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos - special issue of IJHCS
Deadline: 21 November 2008
 
A special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies to explore collocated social practices surrounding photos.

 
 

 

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