Resources

Talks and presentations

"Design for Inclusion: Using Familiar Methods for Unfamiliar Contexts." Beth Kolko, Cynthia Putnam, Emma Rose. Invited Speaker Series on current topics in Human Center Design & Engineering, University of Washington. Seattle, WA (November 2009). PDF

"The Power of User-Centered Design: From Paper Forms to the Web." Dana Botka, Lani Hathaway, Suzanne Boyd. presentation for the NW Business Forms Management Association, Bellevue, WA (November, 2009). PDF

“Making Government User-Centered: Managing UCD Projects to Promote Change” Suzanne Boyd, Emma J. Rose. Usability Professionals Association Conference, e-Government Program, Baltimore, MD (June 2008). PDF

“Design Research in Developing Countries: Creative Applications for Mobile Phones” Emma J. Rose. Usability Professionals Association Conference, Baltimore, MD (June 2008). PDF

“User-Centered Information Architecture: Fast, Cheap & Data-Driven.” Suzanne Boyd, Emma J. Rose. Invited Speaker Series - University of Washington - TC521. Seattle, WA (Feb 2008). PDF

“Moving Beyond ROI: UCD as a Catalyst for Organizational Change” Emma J. Rose. World Usability Day Seattle, WA (November 2007). PDF

“Design Ethnography: The Art of Deep Hanging Out.” Emma J. Rose. Tinker, Tailor, Maker Sailor: New Perspectives on UX and the Web hosted by Zaaz. Seattle, WA (August 2007). PDF

“Beyond ROI: UCD as a Catalyst for Organizational Change.” Salem, Anita, Boyd, Suzanne, Kleimann, Susan, Simonds, Katherine, and Rose, Emma J. Usability Professionals Association Conference, Austin, TX (June 2007). PDF

“User-Centered Information Architecture: Fast, Cheap & Data-Driven.” Boyd, Suzanne, Rose, Emma J. and Salem, Anita. Usability Professionals Association Conference, Austin, TX (June 2007). PDF

“Designing for Digital Inclusion: Investigating social networks within resource constrained environments” Rose, Emma J., Putnam, Cynthia and Birand, Gulay. Society for Technical Communication: University of Washington Research and Design Showcase (May 2007).

“Usability & Government: User-centered Solutions.” Boyd, Suzanne and Rose, Emma J. Information Processing Management Association (IPMA) Forum 2007 IPMA Conference (May 2007). PDF

“Beyond current user research: designing methods for new users, technologies, and design processes” Ramey, Judy, Rosenbaum Stephanie, Rose, Emma J., Cuddihy, Elisabeth, and Guan, Zhiwei. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, California (April 2007). PDF

“When You Can’t Design for Everyone: Prioritizing Users.” Boyd, Suzanne and Rose, Emma J. Society for Technical Communication 53rd Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV (May 2006). PDF

“Understanding Information-Seeking Behaviors and Informal Social Networks in Kyrgyzstan: A Design Ethnography for Mobile Social Software” Rose, Emma J., Kolko, Beth and Wei, Carolyn. Poster Presentation at EPIC: Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Portland, Oregon (September 2006).

“Blogs as Teaching Tools." Kasonic, Karen, Rose, Emma J. and Speights, Jon. Society for Technical Communication 52nd Annual Conference. Seattle, WA (May 2005).

“Usability and Government. Serving the Needs of Citizens.” Boyd, Suzanne and Emma J. Rose. Society for Technical Communication 52nd Annual Conference. Seattle, WA (May 2005). PDF

“Single Sourcing Solutions for Small Business: Documenting Otobase” Rose, Emma J. Society for Technical Communication, Puget Sound Chapter (November 2002).