<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">User Experience Research is a hot topic for 2016! <br>Hear from accomplished speakers, and get hands-on experience from our demonstration tables.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12.8px">WHEN</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">: January 6, 2016 ||| Wednesday ||| 9 AM - 3 PM</span></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12.8px">WHERE</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">: Simmons College in Boston</span></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>HOW MUCH</b>: Registration $60 ||| ASIST members $45</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>SO</b>: <a href="http://neasist-uxandyou.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">Register today!</a></font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><p style="font-size:13.6px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-weight:700"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:medium"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></span></span></span></p><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">UX & You: User Experience Research and Design </font></b><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">We have all been hearing about user experience and here is your </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px">opportunity</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> to learn what it is all about and how you can get useful data to improve your services, web portals, digital humanities projects or physical spaces. Let's start making a better impact by engaging with our communities. </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.6px"><span style="font-size:small">The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to join us at our 2016 Winter Event, User Experience & You: UX Design and Research. Morning presenters</span></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt"> will give an introduction to the topic and share their insights and experiences. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px">The afternoon will feature interactive demonstration tables that will give you hands-on practice with various UX research tools and methods, followed by short case studies by Simmons students.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://neasist-uxandyou.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size:10pt">Visit our event site</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"> to see the topics to be discussed, and check out the roster of speakers below!</span></font></p><p style="font-size:13.6px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 8px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Morning Speakers</b></font></span></p><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rong Tang, PhD.- Associate Professor and Director Usability Lab, Simmons College</font></span></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Steven Anderson- Digital Repository Developer, Digital Commonwealth</font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Eben English- Web Services Developer, Boston Public Library</font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kate Lawrence- Vice President, User Research, EBSCO Information Services</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Annie Erdmann</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">(she/ her/ hers)</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Digital Assets/ eResources Librarian</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Simmons College Library</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Boston MA 02115</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">617-521-2723</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="mailto:erdmann@simmons.edu" target="_blank">erdmann@simmons.edu</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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