National Conference on Advances in Usability Engineering

Broad Outline of Technical Themes

Offshore Usability

Cross-cultural aspects, remote usability methods and tools, challenges in user requirements research, etc.

Usability to Bridge the Digital Divide

Designing ICT products and applications for rural users, such as e-governance, e-learning, localization of user interface.

Usability Engineering

Institutionalisation,
processes & practices, multidisciplinary dimensions, best usability
practice, impact of adaptation of user centred design approach in SDLC
process and project management, agile process, interaction design and
client architecture, internationalisation of user interface, etc.

User Experience Design for New Media

Web, Mobile, PDA, Touch-screen, new interaction models, interaction design for development, etc.

User Experience Research

Tying
user experience to strategic business innovation objectives, UX methods
and research approaches for emerging markets with unique technology
adoption curves, user experience innovations for Indian consumer and
enterprise products, next generation user-driven technologies, etc.

Multidisciplinary Challenges of HCI in Education

Fusion
of diverse disciplines in the syllabus of Human-Computer Interaction,
user experience design thinking into the design / engineering /
management curriculum, etc.