Date: 14th May, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 6.00pm-9.00pm (5.30pm for those who need to set up projects)
Location: Student Union – Ohlone Room

The Human Factors & Ergonomics Society will be inviting professionals from the UX UX and start-up industry to have a casual social hour with students in our program. It’ll be a great opportunity for us to exchange ideas about Human Factors and the kinds of skills we bring to the tech industry.

Students are highly encouraged to bring portfolios, posters, projects and stimuli (or simulations) to the event. Tables and facilities will be available. Please RSVP and tell us if you will bring a project along.

Refreshments are also provided courtesy of our sponsor:

Program Outline

6:00pm – 6:40pm: Arrival of guests (refreshments provided) – guests allowed to roam the room and talk to students about their projects
6:40pm – 7:10pm: Talk given by Dr Louis Freund, Director of Human Factors & Ergonomics Graduate Program
7:10pm – 7:30pm: Talk by Mr Tingbin Tang, Interaction Design Professor

This event can also be found on Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-User-Experience/events/114821802/

Date: Friday, May 24th, 2013
Place: SJSU Event Center, 7th and San Salvador
Group Photo: 1:30 PM
Doors Open and Slideshow: 2:30 PM
Processional: 3:30 PM

Graduation Ceremony Checklist

• RSVP at: http://goo.gl/NcsZH
• Purchase tickets for your guests from the Event Center Box Office (Monday to
  Friday 10AM-5PM and Saturday 10AM-12PM). You must physically go to the box office to purchase the tickets for your guests. General admission, no seating assignments.
• Obtain regalia by going to the Spartan Bookstore on campus or borrow from alumni. You will need a master’s gown, cap, black tassel and gold hood.

On Ceremony Day

• Meet at 1:15 outside the Event Center between the Music Building and Event Center. We will be grouped by major. Group photos start at 1:30PM.
• Leave any personal belongings (purses and backpacks) with your family or guests. Do not leave any personal belonging on your seat, as you may not sit in the same seat after you come back from the stage.
• Guests may enter the Event Center at 2:30PM.

For more information, visit:

College of Engineering Spring Graduation Recognition Ceremony 

Commencement Guide

Academic Regalia Guide

We are excited to announce our speakers for this year’s SJSU HF/E Alumni Symposium being held this Sunday, April 14, 2013.

To ensure enough food for everyone, please RSVP at http://sjsuhfes.eventbrite.com/

KEYNOTE

Steve Portigal, Founder of Portigal Consulting
Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a bite-sized San Francisco firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. In the past 15 years, Steve has interviewed hundreds of people, including families eating breakfast, hotel maintenance staff, architects, rock musicians, home-automation enthusiasts, credit-default swap traders, and radiologists. His work has informed the development of mobile devices, medical information systems, music gear, wine packaging, financial services, corporate intranets, videoconferencing systems, and iPod accessories. An in-demand conference speaker and contributor to publications like interactions, Core77 and Johnny Holland, Steve is the author of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, a Rosenfeld Media book.

SPEAKERS

Kirsten Peters, Sr. User Experience Specialist @ Gfk User Centric
Kirsten’s methodical approach is perfectly suited for developing intriguing research projects, analyzing data, and designing unparalleled solutions. Equipped with core engineering credentials and an intuitive passion for problem solving, Kirsten’s enthusiasm for research spans from usability testing to information architecture. Harnessing her exceptional analytical flair, Kirsten’s strengths lie in facilitating, organizing and leading one-on-one usability studies and online surveys.

Kirsten has a diverse history of projects in areas ranging from e-commerce and consumer facing websites, to skincare products and handheld devices. Above all, Kirsten enjoys tackling UX challenges related to healthcare and health information technology, particularly projects that directly impact both patients and healthcare providers. Her healthcare endeavors include user experience research for personal health records and electronic health records and usability testing of various medical devices.

Roger Santos, Usability Engineer @ IBM
After graduating from the Human Factors program in 2009, Roger Santos was hired full time at IBM after being a co-op for about a year. As a co-op, Roger worked with Senior Usability Engineers running usability sessions and prototyping special projects. Once hired to full-time, he worked within the InfoSphere portfolio to improve the usability of the products in that suite. Roger recently moved to Oracle where he’s working on improving the experience of desktop and mobile applications within the Procurement domain.

Ben Carroll, User Experience Research Assistant @ Google [X] 
Ben Carroll measures how humans interact with technology. In order to fold the dreams of science fiction into our everyday lives he spars daily with Occam’s razor. He is currently a UX research assistant at Google [X] where he primarily works on Google Glass. He interned at Oracle, UE Group and was a graduate assistant at the Team Performance Lab at the University of Central Florida.

Jason Wise, Lead Human Factors Engineer @ GE Healthcare
Since graduating in 2007, Jason has worked as a Human Factors Engineer in the Medical Device domain at GE Healthcare – Surgery located in his home state of Utah. In this role he leads a small team of Human Factors Engineers in the quest to develop safe, effective and enjoyable user interfaces for mobile fluoroscopic imaging systems. Key responsibilities for the team include discovery of user needs, specifications authoring, interface design, interface testing, device validation, and surveillance of the dynamic body of regulations for Usability in Medical Devices.

In addition to his degree from the San Jose State University Human Factors and Ergonomics program, he holds a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of Utah (2002).

Jason lives with his family (Wife: Jenal, 4 ¾ y.o. Daughter: Eliza, and 10 m.o. Son: Graham) just outside of Salt Lake City. He enjoys spending time in the yard with the family, tinkering in the garage, and getting into the mountains of Northern Utah.

Mark Wehner, Lead User Experience Researcher @ Ebay
Mark has worked in UX research for the past 12 years focusing on developing products that connect people to their local businesses and neighbors. Mark is passionate about exploring new and diverse research techniques to investigate our rapidly evolving product experiences. He has presented on techniques such as utilizing comics to inspire design and transforming large product teams into ethnographers. He currently resides at eBay.

Parking & Location Information

Guest parking is available at the 10th St Garage on 10th & San Fernando, marked “A” on the map. The Engineering Building is boxed in blue. The Auditorium (ENG 189) is located at the southwestern end of the building.

Date: Sunday, April 14, 2013
Time: 11:30am – 5pm
Location: ENG 189

RSVP below.

Agenda for HF/E Alumni Symposium

11:30am – 12:45pm
REGISTRATION: Lunch

12:45pm – 1:00pm
OPENING REMARKS: Welcome

1:00pm – 2:00pm
KEYNOTE: The Power of Bad Ideas
Steve Portigal (Founder of Portigal Consulting)
In business and in life, we pursue the good stuff and champion people who are known for their good ideas. But when we place too strong an emphasis on just the good, we may neglect to consider the bad ones. Instead, Steve Portigal talks about how deliberately seeking out bad ideas is a powerful way to unlock creativity.

2:00pm – 2:30pm
SPEAKER:  Kristen Peters

2:30pm – 3:00pm
SPEAKER: Roger Santos (Usability Engineer @ IBM)

3:00pm – 3:30pm
BREAK: Networking

3:30pm – 4:00pm
SPEAKER: Jason Wise

4:00pm – 4:30pm
SPEAKER: Ben Carroll

4:30pm – 5:00pm
CLOSING REMARKS

5:00pm
HAPPY HOUR: Flames Eatery & Bar

The SJSU HFES is pleased to announce our first Portfolio Workshop! Our guest, Dennis Morrow from Rosetta, will be on campus to share his experience on the importance of having a portfolio, present tools and templates, provide samples of others’ portfolios, and much more! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided, too!

*This event is for SJSU HFES members only.  If you have questions regarding your membership status, reach out to the Executive Council or email us at contactsjsuhfes@gmail.com.

Date: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
Time: 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM
Location: SJSU Campus, ENGR 486

Event Outline

• What is a portfolio?
  • Importance of a portfolio?
  • Different types of portfolios?
  • What I look for in a portfolio?
• How do you create a portfolio
  • What you should include?
  • What you shouldn’t include?
  • Tools & Templates
  • Hosting & Custom URL
• Sample Portfolios
• QA Session

Our Guest Speaker

Dennis Morrow
Group Experience Director, Rosetta

As head of West Coast Customer Experience, Dennis leads Rosetta’s holistic approach to combining user interface design, human factors and usability practices, resulting in positive user experience initiatives for the agency’s family of global brands.

He has served as lead on projects for such prestigious clients as HP, BlackBerry, Pioneer, Quiksilver, Apple and Philips to name a few. With his extensive knowledge of user interface design, human factors and usability practices, Dennis has worked with companies to provide cutting-edge solutions that maximize results.

Dennis has been practicing information architecture, user experience design and usability since 1998. Prior to Web Associates, Dennis worked with 3Com, Adobe, Intel and other companies around Silicon Valley to help with user interface design and user research. While earning his Marketing Degree from San Jose State University, Dennis pioneered their online education by architecting and developing a system for university staff to provide class agendas, notes and presentations via the Web. Dennis continues his education path by earning credentials as a Certified Usability Analyst (CUA).

Date: Friday, February 15th
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Location: Engineering building Room 488

The SJSU HFES is pleased to announce our first Industry Professionals Discussion Panel! Our diverse set of panelists include senior researchers and designers from various companies and organizations who will be on campus to share their experience and insights. Leave your questions for them here or email contactsjsuhfes@gmail.com. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided, too!

Date: Monday, February 4th, 2013
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: SJSU Campus, Engineering Building, Room 285

Panelists

Joanne Locascio
Senior Researcher, Yahoo!

Dr. Locascio has held previous research positions at Adobe, Cisco and Ooyala. She obtained a Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from Brigham Young University and a Masters in Human Factors from San Jose State University.

Jessica Marquez
Human Systems Engineer, NASA Ames

Dr. Marquez’s expertise is in space human factors and HCI. Her projects have focused on developing software tools for International Space Station flight controllers and training simulators, developing a path planning aid for astronauts conducting extra-vehicular activities, and design and assessment displays for unmanned air vehicle operations and lunar lander cockpit. Originally from Lima, Peru, she moved to the U.S. to complete her undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering at Princeton University.  She has a Masters and Ph.D. from MIT in the Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Amaya Becvar Weddle
Senior UX Researcher, Immersion Corporation

Dhvani Patel-Smith
Staff User Experience Researcher, Google

Dr. Patel-Smith is a Staff UX Researcher at Google [x], where she is currently working Project Glass. In the past, Dhvani worked as a User Experience Researcher at Microsoft, and she received her M.A. and PhD in Applied Developmental Psychology from George Mason University.

Mac Smith
Staff User Experience Researcher, Google

*To submit questions for the panel, leave your questions for them here or email contactsjsuhfes@gmail.com. If you’d like, specify whether your question is for the entire panel or mention the name of the person it is intended for.

Important information can be found in this PDF:

SJSU HF/E Alumni Symposium Info

See you on Saturday!

Date: Saturday, April 23rd, 9:30am – 5:00pm.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Location: Engineering Auditorium, 189 Engineering Building, San Jose State University campus

Please RSVP as soon as possible via the event Evite. If you have not yet received an Evite for this event, please send an email to katieleighek@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you there!

SJSU HFES Student Chapter 2010-2011

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 work  at a major video game company. It was interesting to see the history and growth of a company that has developed games that so many of us have grown up playing. Visiting the usability testing labs was definitely a highlight, as it is always refreshing to see the things we learn in class being applied in the real world!

Thanks to Celeste for planning a great event and to Julie and Rich for welcoming us and giving us an awesome tour!

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