The SJSU HFES Student Chapter of 2010-2011 invites all SJSU HF/E program alumni and current students to join us for an all-day event on Saturday, April 23rd, to celebrate the past and present of the program. The day will include presentations from alumni regarding their current work, research and experiences, as well as an alumni [...] Read More

In January, the SJSU HFES Student Chapter had the opportunity to visit the EA (Electronic Arts) headquarters in Redwood City for a campus tour and a peek into the usability department. We were able to visit all of their beautiful buildings (including the gym, daycare and basketball courts!) and get a hint of what it’s like to [...] Read More

Here are some notes of mine from the tour at the Microsoft usability labs in Mt. View last week. Just personal observations. Thanks to Christine, and Paula, Mark, and Noor, who made time to meet with us. – Seems eye trackers are common equipment at such labs these days. But seems they can also create [...] Read More

For World Usability Day, the SJSU student chapter took a field trip to Microsoft User Research Labs in Mountain View, CA to learn about how user research is conducted and got a tour of the labs.  The field trip was also mentioned on the National HFES website! http://www.hfes.org/web/WhatsNew.aspx?Id=189 Read More

Hi Everyone, I wanted to share this info with you: “I am forwarding the following information about the SJSU Psychology Department’s Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference (SPARC) because I thought our keynote speaker may be of interest to students in your Human Factors program. SPARC is a research conference which gives undergraduate and graduate students [...] Read More

SJSU HFES has arranged a tour of Paypal. We will be visiting their newly constructed usability labs, as well as their eye tracking lab. The manager of User Experience, Kuldeep Kelkar, will be showing us around and he will also be giving a short talk on the Day in the Life of a UX Professional. You will also [...] Read More

Title: BayCHI Monthly Meeting Location: PARC, Palo Alto Link out: Click here Start Time: 7:30 Date: 2009-03-10 Just a heads up that this tuesday is the monthly BayCHI meeting. There are two presenters this month: Dancing with Ambiguity: Design Thinking in Practice and Theory Larry Leifer, Stanford Center for Design Research Designing a Unified Experience: [...] Read More