MW2008 Interactive Sessions: Participants Wanted

Each Friday at Museums and the Web we run a series of interactive sessions, all of which are designed to facilitate group conversation and thinking. In addition to the Mini-Workshops and Professional Forums already scheduled, we're looking for volunteers for two types of interactive sessions, the Crit Room and the Usability Lab

Crit Room
Chair, Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics, Canada

Experienced Web designers and new media managers review real museum Web sites and offer their comments in the design-focused "Crit Room". Modeled on the art school critique, Web sites are volunteered in advance by MW2008 delegates who are present to pose the problems they faced and respond to questions and suggestions.

Participate as a Site Presenter, a Crit Panelist, or just join the discussion.

Usability Lab
Paul Marty, Florida State University, and Michael Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Michael Twidale and Paul Marty will run a live Usability Lab. You'll be able to:

1. observe simple, low-cost, high-speed user testing of museum Web sites in action;
2. volunteer to participate as a user tester and discover some of the problems users have on unknown sites; and
3. volunteer your site to be tested.

Each user test lasts about 20 minutes (with time for comments and questions) and people drift in and out of the session. Sites to be tested are not evaluated in advance and volunteer users are selected at random.

Participate by Volunteering your site to be tested, as an on-site tester, or just join the discussion.

To volunteer to participate, email mw2008 [at] archimuse.com

Spots in both sessions are very popular, and the sites will be selected by the Chairs. You must be registered for Museums and the Web to participate. Sessions take place on Friday April 11, 2008.

We're looking forward to a great meeting!

jennifer

j trant, archives & museum informatics, www.archimuse.com