Date and time:
August 8, 2007 (Wednesday)
7:00-9:00 p.m. Program (**If you do not attend dinner, please arrive promptly at 7 as we must sign everyone in and escort them up to the presentation room.)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Dinner at Mei's, an Asian restaurant, located downstairs in the building.
Mei's Menu
Location:
SRA International, Inc.
3434 Washington Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
202.282.3080
Description: Web 2.0 has taken off. It's hard to walk more than a few feet without finding someone who's blogging, twittering,
tagging, or roaming Second Life. Blogs and Wikis, mashups, folksonomies, rich Internet applications, and "thin client
Web apps" are popping up everywhere. User-generated and collaborative content and applications are king, and users no
longer sit idly by waiting for a development team to build something for them. With a few simple instructions, they
can build a fairly slick blog or mashups galore.
Your users are keeping up with the trends, are you?
Come learn more about Web 2.0, including some of the latest developments.
What is Web 2.0 and why should we, as usability professionals, care? And how does it impact design, usability, and
accessibility? Learn how it's impacting the user experience for users, as well as usability professionals.
Presentation chock full of tidbits and sample sites and apps, with questions and discussion throughout.
Biography: Kate Walser has been working with commercial and government organizations to improve the user experience and
accessibility of their products for the last 10 years. She has worked with many federal and state agencies, including
the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs, Small Business Administration, and Commonwealth of Virginia - as well as commercial organizations including
AXA/Equitable Financials, BlueCross BlueShield of California, and T. Rowe Price.
Over the last two years, Ms. Walser has been investigating Web 2.0 technologies as well, including blogs, wikis, AJAX
and rich Internet applications, Google Gears and Apollo Adobe, and others that will impact how we design the user's
experience.
Kate's background in biomedical engineering, coupled with her MBA and work as an NIH researcher, have given her a unique
perspective into how best to integrate usability as a discipline within small and large organizations. She established
and leads the SRA Usability Center of Excellence. Kate is 1 of 42 members selected to the Access Board's Telecommunications
& Electronic & Information Technology Advisory Committee, tasked with refreshing the Section 508 standards.
Registration:
Event is sold out. No walk-ins
can be accepted due to building security.
Cost: $5 Members, $15 non-members
Directions to the Program: Driving
From Points West (Fairfax, Reston, Tyson's Corner):
Get on I-66 East towards Washington. Take exit 71
(Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive). Off the exit ramp, at
the second traffic light, take a left on to North
Glebe Road. At the second traffic light, take a right
on to Washington Boulevard. Stay on Washington
Boulevard for approximately .8 miles. The SRA
building is just past the Giant Food store on the
right (it is a white building marked “3434”). Just
past the building, turn right into the small alley for
the entrance to the parking garage. Once in the
garage, take the elevator to the "P" level and check
in with the receptionist in the lobby.
From Maryland:
Take I-495 South over the American Legion Bridge into
Virginia. Take exit 45B (I-66 East – Washington).
Stay on I-66 East for 6 miles, then take exit 71
(Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive). Off the exit ramp, at
the second traffic light, take a left on to North
Glebe Road. At the second traffic light, take a right
on to Washington Boulevard. Stay on Washington
Boulevard for approximately .8 miles. The SRA
building is just past the Giant Food store on the
right (it is a white building marked “3434”). Just
past the building, turn right into the small alley for
the entrance to the parking garage. Once in the
garage, take the elevator to the "P" level and check
in with the receptionist in the lobby.
From Points South:
Take I-395 North towards Washington. Merge on to
Washington Boulevard via exit 8A toward Virginia route
244 (Columbia Pike). Stay on Washington Boulevard for
2.8 miles, then take a slight left on to 13th Street.
Bear right on to Washington Boulevard. The SRA
building is located at 3434 Washington Boulevard.
Facing the building, the parking garage is accessible
via an alley on the left-hand side of the building.
Once in the garage, take the elevator to the "P" level
and check in with the receptionist in the lobby.
From Washington, D.C.:
Follow Constitution Avenue or the E Street Expressway
to I-66 West. Bear right on to I-66 West. Take US-50
West to Arlington Boulevard. Bear right on to VA-237
West for approximately 1.5 miles, and bear a slight
right on to Washington Boulevard. Travel for 0.2
miles. The SRA building is on the left, located at
3434 Washington Boulevard. Facing the building, the
parking garage is accessible via an alley on the
left-hand side of the building. Once in the garage,
take the elevator to the "P" level and check in with
the receptionist in the lobby.
*66 West inside I-495 (Capital Beltway) is restricted
to high occupancy vehicle 2 passengers Monday –
Friday, during evening rush hour, 4:30 p.m. – 6:30
p.m.
Taking the Metro
Take the Orange Line to the Virginia Square metro
stop. Exit the Virginia Square station by going up
the escalator. Make a 180-degree turn and walk down
Monroe Street for approximately two blocks. Turn
right onto Washington Boulevard, or walk through the
Giant Food parking lot. The SRA building is the white
building at 3434 Washington Boulevard; it appears to
be behind Giant Food when walking down Washington
Boulevard.
