Panel – World Usability Day: Our Health

November 10th is World Usability Day, and this year’s theme is “Our Health.” Our panel explores several challenges in the health field and the role that usability and the user experience play in creating successful user outcomes. Our panelists have performed a variety of research, including qualitative, quantitative, attitudinal, and behavioral. Each panelist will talk about their respective goals and methods, sharing stories from behind the front lines about providing good, usable experiences that impact our health. (This meeting is a joint meeting with the UXPA NJ chapter.)

The panel will be introduced by Josephine Giaimo, will give a brief overview of basic concepts that underlie usability and the user experience, and will provide context for the presentations by the other panelists. Josephine has worked on a product that uses machine learning and big data in the cloud to find trends and anomalies in clinical research data. She will underscore the importance of user experience leadership in organizations today.

Josephine Giaimo moved from working the field of data science in the 1980s to eventually become a leader in quantitative and qualitative research. Her original academic research proposed a framework for evaluating the performance of neural networks and statistical approaches in predicting project profits. She is the Founder and Principal of User Experience Research, LLC, providing consulting services to organizations such as AT&T, ADP, Google, Medidata, Sarnoff Corporation, and others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Montclair State University, and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the Treasurer of the Princeton ACM, a member of SIGCHI, and the Membership and Operations Chair of the UXPA NJ chapter.

Speaker(s): Dr. Sarah Fedem, Dr. Reem Ayouby

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/329588