Third Seminar Tour to China

The thrid seminar tour of SESUN took place in Beijing, Dalian and Shanghai, China on 16-23 May.

The theme of the third seminar tour is UCD practice and case studies.

Rachel Jones from Instrata UK has written the following summary: "Workshops were large, with about 100 to 120 participants attending each session. Most of the participants were from industry and worked in seemingly equal proportions on products, websites, and handhelds. Participants were keen to hear about case studies, exercises, and also the impact of limitations, such as recruiting from internal staff. However, overall I was surprised how comparable the issues were to those concerning practitioners in Europe, at least as reflected by participants’ questions.

For example, common issues that were raised in workshops included:

• knowing how to shift users to a radically new interface when they are familiar with the old one
• gaining time to do user research and iterative development
• how to use different types of prototyping at different stages in the process
• how to test for the affective
• how to understand usefulness when a device does not yet exist
• the relationship between data mining and usability.

Four people from Europe ran the workshops: Jan Gulliksen from Uppsala University in Sweden, Nils-Erik Gustafsson from Metamatrix in Sweden, Jon Rimmer from UCL and Rachel Jones from Instrata in Cambridge. Janni Nielsen from Copenhagen Business School joined us for the last workshop."

Download the presentation files from the third tour

Download the presentation files from the first tour

Download the presentation files from the second tour

Read the review of SESUN Seminar tour 1, tour 2 and tour 4.