World Usability Day - November 13th 2008

Usability in Transportation for New Jersey:
Which exit?

Below is the current program of events for the World Usability Day Celebration in NJ on Thursday, November 13, 2008.

This event is free and open to the public and will be held at:

Rutgers University Busch Campus
CoRE Building - First Floor Auditorium
96 Frelinghuysend Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Schedule of Events


4:00 PM – 5:00 PM:	Outdoor Demonstrations Ed Tsang, Segway of Basking Ridge, New Jersey Segway© Personal Transporters: Comparing Early and Late Models for Improvements Derrick Yu, President PAVE (Princeton Autonomous Vehicle), Princeton University Prospect Twelve: Award winning Autonomous Vehicle Oliver Perry, President, Eastern Electric Vehicle Club, Valley Forge, PA The Olympian: Ford Escort Electric Conversion Vehicle Ken Barbour, Eastern Electric Vehicle Club, Deptford, New Jersey A GeoMetro Electric Conversion
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM:	Outdoor and Indoor Demos and Refreshments Mark Mento, Director, SMI North America SMI: Eye & Gaze Tracking Chandra Sekhar Mantravadi & Joseph Wilder Rutgers University Design of a Speech and Gaze Interface for Menu Selection in Automobiles H. Nassif, K. Ozbay, U. Ates, S. Demiroluk, Rutgers University Truck Monitoring H. Nassif, K. Ozbay, Rutgers University, S. Goel, Google, Inc. Vehicular Networks Rutgers University Bridge Performance Display; Navigation System for the Blind
6:00 PM – 6:25 PM:	Welcome and Opening Remarks Ronnie Battista UsabilityNJ Chapter President
6:25 PM – 7:15 PM:	Invited Speaker Bill Neary Keep Middlesex Moving Involving Employers and Communities to Keep Middlesex Moving
	Invited Speaker Tim Wierzbicki Manager, Performance Analysis & Support, CRM Administrator NJ TRANSIT, Newark, New Jersey Managing Customer Relations When You Have a Million Commuters
7:15 PM – 7:45 PM:	Demos and Refreshments
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM:	Invited Speaker Tom Wakeman Stevens Institute of Technology, Center for Maritime Systems The Often Unpredictable Consequences of the Human Involvement in Maritime Systems
	Invited Speakers Gloria Villalobos & Laura Venner NASA JPL Solar System Ambassadors Bringing Space Down to Earth
8:30 PM – 9:00 PM:	Panel Discussion The Future of Transportation: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? Panel Moderator: Steve Ellis Senior User Experience Consultant with The KOHL Group Panelists: Jeff Kashinsky NYC Transit Systems Engineering Kaan Ozbay Rutgers University Bill Neary Keep Middlesex Moving Tom Wakeman Stevens Institute of Technology Center for Maritime Systems
9:00 PM:	Closing Remarks John Chin WUD-NJ Event Chair

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