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Notícias: Anúncio do novo programa de orientação da UXPA. Procura-se orientadores e orientandos!

UXPA

O programa de orientação da UXPA começará no início de 2013 e sua principal missão será fornecer serviços aos que estão iniciando sua carreira em experiência do usuário, sejam eles estudantes de experiência do usuário ou pessoas que procuram uma transição de emprego e carreira. [Leia mais]

WUD 2012: A usabilidade de sistemas financeiros

World Usability Day logo

O dia 8 de novembro de 2012, Dia Mundial da Usabilidade, tem como foco a usabilidade de sistemas financeiros - um assunto que afeta a todos, em todos os lugares do mundo. [Leia mais]

Por onde começar a trabalhar com a experiência do usuário móvel: digerindo o conselho de um especialista

10 dicas para teste de usabilidade móvel, 5 principais questões a serem consideradas, diretrizes de design de experiência do usuário, criando sketches móveis e muito mais do mundo móvel. [Leia mais]

Uma ferramenta emergente: software de reconhecimento de expressão facial

Screen image with a face

Um novo software pode ler as faces para detectar emoções básicas quando alguém usa um site, fornecendo uma visão mais detalhada sobre como reagem. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Voice Recognition Technology Aiming Higher

(English) With permanent voice recognition features appearing in popular consumer products, technology is becoming more an auditory and verbal experience than a manual and visual one. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Mommy, Can I Play with Your iPhone?

photo of the Woogie

(English) The Woogie, a stuffed animal into which you can insert your iPhone, helps childproof your phone, however parents must monitor the content their children view. [Leia mais]

(English) The New Reality – Coming Soon

(English) The increasing use of handheld devices with cameras, GPS, wireless Internet, and relatively large digital viewing screens has made Augmented Reality technology available to the general public en masse. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Automating Baggage Handling

RampMate automated baggage handling device

(English) Using feedback from ground handling staff, RampMate was created, increasing efficiency and airport baggage tracking capabilities while decreasing handler injury rates. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: No More Goofy Glasses

(English) Three-dimensional (3-D) movies may soon become more mainstream thanks to technologies that are making 3-D viewing more user-friendly. [Leia mais]

(English) Superphone to the Rescue!

Phone screens

(English) Cell phones with kid finders and one button emergency calls. Music on a memory stick. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Blio Software: E-reader = Easy to Read?

(English) Blio, designed to make e-books accessible to the visually impaired, allows users to read, or have read to them, e-books on regular computers or handheld devices. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: New Computer Technologies to Be Rolled Out

(English) Flexible, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology is about to revolutionize the world of portable computing, making mobile phones lighter and more durable. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Simplifying Web Design and Management

(English) Platformic is making breakthroughs in web management usability, thanks to its ability to develop CSS without needing a programmer or web design software. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Hey Good Lookin’

(English) The marketing campaign for TriSpecs™ is focused on user experience as the key selling feature, however the website itself is not a great model of usability. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Thoughts as Art

Desculpe-nos, mas este texto esta apenas disponível em Inglês Americano. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Helping Seniors Helps Everybody

(English) With the aging of the baby boomers, product developers are realizing that there’s money to be made by making products more user-friendly to older people. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Can We Talk? Conversing with Your Car

(English) Cursing the driver who swerved in front of you is one thing, but cursing at your own car is quite another. It may become increasingly common as cars take on an ever-expanding role of keeping those in the driver’s seat driving safely. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Kindling

(English) Review of the Kindle, Amazon's wireless reading device. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Lassoing the Web

(English) A product called Twine, currently in beta testing, aims to help users keep track of online information and make them available for easy retrieval and sharing. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Demonstrating Usability of Medical Records

(English) Medical Records Institute launched EMRCompare, a website that compares electronic medical records programs on usability, costs and functionalities. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: A Bevy of Good Ideas

(English) Mass collaboration in the development process can lead to simple to produce, inexpensive, and user-friendly devices [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Function Fatigue and Feature Frustration

(English) Manufacturers are starting to realize that usability, rather than more features, can be a successful way to differentiate their products. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Wii Usability Woos Non-Gamers

(English) Nintendo broke a usability barrier with its Wii gaming system by creating an interface that could be easily learned by users less experienced with gaming. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Up, Up and Away

(English) Airbus’s new A380 super-jumbo employees volunteered to do “ethnographic” usability testing; the first in-air test with a full-size passenger load on board. [Leia mais]

(English) What’s News: Make it Easy

(English) The Arthritis Foundation’s Ease of Use Commendation program seeks to identify products that are easy to use by people with arthritis. [Leia mais]