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Bringing Hyderabad Local UX community together
The idea of having such monthly events is to give an opportunity for local HCI enthusiast to share their experiences. We also encourage external speakers outside Hyderabad to contact us so that we can arrange an event for them. Below is the list of recent events
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5. August 23: UX meet @ Kanbay.
The meet was organized at Kanbay, Hyderabad Location and started at 5:30 PM.
The meeting started with a Welcome Note from MuthuKumar, Kanbay talking about the agenda and World Usability Day 2006 Planning meet.
Sameer Chavan(Oracle) and Ashish Tiwari (Cordys) talked about UPA, World Usability Day 2006 and on raising awareness and visibility of usability engineering and user centered design, that is currently being organized by volunteers and local event coordinators from around the world.
Following this, Professor Dr.Beena from Osmania University presented on Cognitive Psychology and its applications with research work done on Child Psychology along with student researchers. The time allocated for this session was extended as there was a active participation from audience.
Following a tea break, Dhwanit Saxena Presented on RIA(Rich Media Internet Application Design). He covered interesting information like evolution of RIA's and comparison of RIA mediums like FLEX, AJAX and more...which triggered aa interesting debate on best among RIA technologies.
The event concluded by MuthuKumar with the message saying - The UPA, UPA chapters, and allied organizations will all hold events, revolving around a common theme - "Making life easy!" - with a focus this year on accessibility and inclusion.
 
Muthu kumar (Kanbay) Sameer Chavan (oracle)
 
Ashish Tiwari (Cordys) Dhwanit Saxena(Kanbay)
 
Dr Beena (Osmania University, Hyderabad)
 
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4. July 12: Coffee cup @ Subway
HCI enthusiasts from Hyderabad met for a cup of Coffee at Subway/Chicking. Members discussed future goals and plans towards UPA activities in Hyderabad. Strategy for World usability Day 2006 was also discussed.
 
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3. June 18: UX meet @ Cordys
Dr. Dinesh Katre was in Hyderabad on 15th of June, 2006 and discussed on "Experience of Ph.D. Research in HCI and the Issues Involved" on a high-tea meeting with the local HCI community.
The meeting was hosted by Cordys at Takshilla Conference Hall, 2nd Floor Mariner block, Vanenburg IT Park, Madhapur, Hyderabad. and was attended by HCI professionals from companies like CA, Convergys, Cordys, Cognizant, Glansa, Hitha, Kanbay, Microsoft, Oracle, Progress, Satyam, SIT, TCS, and Trina.
 
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2. May 22 : UX Meet @ Convergys.
On 22nd May, 2006 Convergys Hyderabad organized another HCI meet. It was a huge success with participants from various Universities- Osmania University & JNTU and organizations like Satyam, Wipro, Oracle, Kanbay, Cordys, Convergys, Microsoft, Trina, Progress, , Genesis, Greenspace and many more across the Hyderabad.
The 70+ participants in the event included research scholars, professors, visual designers, usability professionals, application developers, e-Learning architects, senior faculties, heads of departments and managers.
Invited Speakers:
Mr. Jeremy Ashley, Vice-President-UX Oracle, opened the event with an overview of Oracle’s application user experience processes.
Mr. Santosh Kumar Korthiwada, Senior Lead, Creative Services, Convergys, walked the audience through the design processes followed at Convergys Learning Solutions.
Mr. Kaladhar Bapu, Manager, UX, Cordys, carried forward the discussion with a scenario-based presentation on designing applications with specific users in context.
Mr. Muthu Kumar, UX Analyst, Kanbay concluded the event with a moderated discussion on how to convince clients from UX perspective. The discussion helped bring several real-time UX issues to the fore
 
Subhashish (Convergys)
 
Jeremy Ashley (VP, UX Oracle) & Sameer Chavan (oracle)
 
Kalashar Bapu (Microsoft)
 
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1. April 6 : UX meet @ Oracle
On 6th of April 2006, Oracle India organized a half-day interactive sessions on Ajax and Cognitive Psychology, the two hot cake topics in the filed of HCI. Hence the response was tremendous, participants from various organizations and Universities like Satyam, Oracle, Kanbay, Cordys, Convergys, Microsoft, Trina, Progress, Osmania University, JNTU, IDC-IIT Bombay, Genesis, CRM Survey, Greenspace and many more across the Hyderabad attended it.
The day ended with an open-ended session on formation of a formal HCI Community for Hyderabad chapter, in parallel lines with “chi Bangalore chapter”.
Invited Speakers:
• AJAX: Srikanth Krishnan, Sr. Manager Development. Applications Consulting, Oracle India.
• COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. Dr Dinesh K Boosani, PhD Psychology. Member of International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) USA
 
Srikant (oracle)
 
Sameer Chavan Dr. Dinesh
 
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