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I am involved in a couple of workshops. At CHI 2009 there is a workshop on challenges in evaluating the usability and user experience in reality based interaction. Please see the workshop's web site for more information and a call for papers (deadline in late October).

Next week, there is a workshop in Pisa on the interplay between usability evaluation and software engineering. More information is available here.

Springer-Verlag just published a new book on usability entitled "Maturing Usability Quality in Software, Interaction, and Value". It consists of a collection of essays on usability work, focusing on agile software development, model-based evaluation, remote usabilty, and much more. More detailed information can be found here.

I have been collaborating with Aran Lunzer for about four years on interfaces that help work with and display alternatives; so-called subjunctive interfaces. Subjunctive interfaces provide mechanisms for the parallel setup, viewing and control of scenarios, aiming to support users’ thinking about and interaction with their choices.

Several years ago I worked with Morten Hertzum on an experiment with Fisheye Menus, proposed by Ben Bederson at Maryland University (see his UIST paper). Contrary to the literature and our expectations we found fisheye menus to work less well than plain hierarchical menus. This study is finally coming out, as it has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Here's a unique chance to demonstrate your usability skills to the rest of the world:

The interactive session "Recommendations on Recommendations"is part of the CHI 2007 conference in San Jose, CA, 28 April - 3 May 2007. The session will discuss the quality of recommendations for improving a user interface resulting from a usability evaluation.

Effie Law and I had a paper accepted to CHI 2007 entitled "Meta-Analysis of Correlations Among Usability Measures".

The paper is a meta-analysis of 73 studies that - via the biggest data analysis I have ever done - leads to a couple of insights about the relation between aspects of usability. There is more information in the paper's abstract; the full paper arrives after the conference at the end of April. If you are impatient feel free to contact me before then.