This event was originally scheduled for January 11, but due to weather was rescheduled to our regular February 9, 2011 date.

"If you could build a system that resulted in world peace, but no one could use it ... it would be useless. Usability matters."

Software is delivered every day that seems to have completely ignored the topic of usability.  But usability matters, whether it's software, engineering, a button on a screen, a too complicated swipe on the screen of an iPad or a gas pedal that's just a bit too close to the brake pedal in a car.  Failures can be frustrating or devastating, but they can be avoided by applying some basic principles and tests.  Join us in January as we hear from Juan Gilbert, the chair of the Human Centered Computing Division at Clemson University.

How do you know if your interface or system is usable? In engineering, there are metrics for measuring efficiency and other thresholds of products, but in computing, we don't have similar metrics that are "standard". Dr. Gilbert has developed the Holistic Usability Measure (HUM) to address this very issue. The HUM provides a universal method for measure the usability of any system or interface.

GSATC Learning Lunch

About our Speaker

Juan Gilbert, Chair of the Human-Centered Computing Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University

Gilbert has been invited to give more than 120 speeches across the country in areas that include motivational talks, career development, technology policy and scientific research. He has published more than 80 articles and secured more than $10 million in external funding. In 2002, Gilbert was named one of the nation's top African-American Scholars by Diverse Issues in Higher Education. He has been named a Master of Innovation by Black Enterprise Magazine, a Modern-Day Technology Leader by the Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference, the Pioneer of the Year by the National Society of Black Engineers and he received the Black Data Processing Association Epsilon Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution. He is a National Associate of the National Research Council of the National Academies and an Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Speaker. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society.