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Mark your calendars for World Usability Day 2008

Thursday, November 13
11 a.m. to 4 p.m
Laird Center for Medical Research
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
Open to the public

What is World Usability Day?

It's about making our world work better. It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly.
Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first? World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals' Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use.

Schedule of Events

11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Usability Exhibits - Erdman Lobby
Open House - Interactive Clinical Design Institute Interaction Laboratory

Noon - 1 p.m. Froehlke Auditorium
Interactive communication systems to improve patient-centered care
Cornelia Ruland, R.N., Ph.D., FACMI, Director of the Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research, Rikshospitalet University Hospital and Professor at the University of Oslo in Norway

2 - 2:30 p.m. Froehlke Auditorium
Why usability matters in health care
Justin Starren, M.D., Ph.D., FACMI Director, Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Associate Medical Director, Informatics

3 - 3:30 p.m. Froehlke Auditorium
Seeing the future: How data visualization can increase usability for caregivers, patients and researchers
David Pieczkiewicz, Ph. D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Informatics Research Center

Light refreshments will be served
For more information: 715-389-4474, mahnke.andrea@marshfieldclinic.org