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  • 2016 Jan 21

    Awareness: The Heart (and Brain) of the IoT with Sean Lorenz

    6:15pm to 8:15pm

    Location: 

    Fresh Tilled Soil, 480 Pleasant St, Suite A410, Watertown, MA 02472

    People often ask me what “the killer app for the IoT” will be. There likely won’t be one app to rule them all, but rather an investment in sensor processing technology that combines cognitive computing, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and computational neuroscience in exciting new ways. The promise of the Internet of Things is WHAT we do with all this time series-based telemetric and contextual data. In this talk, Sean will take a peek under the hood with where predictive analytics is heading with regards to adaptive analyzing time series data in real-time. We’ll be looking at deep...

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  • 2016 Jan 06

    NEASIST Event: User Experience & You: UX Design & Research

    8:00am to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Center, 300 Fenway, Boston, MA 02115

    The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to join us at our 2016 Winter Event: User Experience & You: UX Research & Design

    Whether you are providing a service for free or for profit, in-person or virtually, your organization's success depends on the user experience. Our speakers are experts in the field of UX Research and Design. Through them, you'll learn about the nuts and bolts of usability and user experience while hearing practical examples of...

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  • 2015 Dec 08

    Boston CHI Monthly Meeting - Design is More Than Lipstick on a Pig

    6:30pm to 9:30pm

    Location: 

    IBM Research Cambridge, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142

    Design is More Than Lipstick on a Pig
    Traci Lepore, Principal User Experience Designer, Oracle

    Abstract
    When done well, Design is a fusion of art, science, and technology that builds on visual theories, psychology, sociology, and marketing. This is especially true for User Experience Design. To successfully create and communicate that fusion we need a deeper understanding of the multiple disciplines that actually impact our work and process in order to articulate the reasoning behind our visions and communicate the importance and clarity of the whole Design.

    In my...

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  • 2015 Dec 03

    UXPA Boston Monthly Meeting: Keeping UX on Track & Enhancing Team Collaboration at athenahealth

    6:30pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Athena Health, 311 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472

    As UX becomes a more valued resource within an organization, what are the tools that we need to successfully begin and drive a project? Many organizations are seeing the benefits of including User Experience professionals in the software development lifecycle. How do we engage our organizational counterparts such as software engineers and business analysts to adopt a user centered design approach? How can UX professionals reach alignment with stakeholders and help drive successful projects forward, without sacrificing the needs of the user?

    6:30-7 PM – Registration,...

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  • 2015 Dec 03

    UX Data Visualization Workshop

    6:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Dockyard, 294 Washington St, Boston, MA

    As creatives, we are often given the challenging task of communicating complex information to an audience in a way that is meaningful and easy to understand. An important part of the design process is considering how our audience will engage with and understand what we make.

    The challenge for data visualization is two fold; encoding data through appropriate visualization methods (creation), and considering how the information will be decoded by an audience (reception). This workshop is an introduction to the UX design thinking behind conceptualizing and forming a data visualization...

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  • 2015 Nov 19

    UXPA Boston Monthly Meeting: Making the Complex Approachable at MathWorks

    6:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    MathWorks, 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA 01760

    UXPA 2015 November Monthly Meeting at MathWorks

    The MathWorks UX team will present 15-minute talks on how they've used the user experience process to make complex domains approachable.

    Agenda

    • 6:00 to 6:30 pm: Meet & Greet, Refreshments
    • 6:30 to 6:45 pm: Opening Remarks by Amy Kidd
    • 6:45 to 7:45 pm: UX Talks by MathWorks UX team
    • 7:45 to 8:30 pm: Networking, Tour of MathWorks UX...
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  • 2015 Nov 18

    Harvard UX Group November Meeting

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    125 Mt Auburn St, 2nd Floor Conference Room

    Time for another get together! As always, we’ll have the first hour for the meeting/lunch (provided) and then a half hour for networking/informal discussion.

    Agenda:

    • Announcements from the group
    • Mike Lawrence will discuss the UX Vision
    • Quick chat about turning our meetings into skill-building sessions

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  • 2015 Aug 13

    The Future of Wearables: A Panel Discussion

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Microsoft NERD Center | 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

    The wearable tech industry has really taken off in 2015. It seems as though the possibilities are endless. Tech in Motion Boston decided the best way to celebrate these possibilities would be to host a discussion on just where the future of this technology can take us! Join us at the Microsoft NERD Center on August 13th for a night with wearable tech experts, free refreshments, a cash bar, and as always, a lot of networking!

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  • 2015 Jul 23

    Refresh Boston: Creating an Inclusive Culture in Tech, with Brianna Wu

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    General Assembly Boston | 51 Melcher Street Boston, MA 02210

    Join Refresh Boston for an evening of networking and conversation with Brianna Wu, Head of Development at Giant Spacekat around inclusiveness in tech. We'll discuss how to create inclusive workplaces, women in tech and Brianna's latest projects.

    Register and more info on Eventbrite

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