Building UX Knowledge in an Engaged University
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Guiseppe Getto . Assistant Professor, Dept. of English Cell: 5175748965 2108 Bate, Mail Stop 555 [email protected] East Carolina University http://guiseppegetto.com Greenville, NC 278584353 http://twitter.com/guiseppegetto Building UX Knowledge within an Engaged University . As a new assistant professor in the Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) program at ECU, I’m working to inject knowledge about user experience design (UX) into the program, as well as the universityatlarge. Right now, the program is strongest in technical writing, editing, risk communication, health communication, web design, usability, and information design. My main valueadds will be new user research methods and new modalities of content strategy/information architecture (e.g. contextual inquiry, field studies, persona development, wireframes, sitemaps, taxonomies, etc.). Because I’m untenured, I’m doing this within the traditional frameworks of research, teaching, and service. Below are some of my current projects and anticipated outcomes. Research . I’m currently at work on two UXrelated research projects • A content strategy and user interface analysis of http://ifixit.com • Persona development and user testing of the North Carolina Coastal Atlas, http://www.nccoastalatlas.org/ Anticipated programmatic outcomes of this work: grant funding; RAships for students; possible industry partnerships Teaching . I’m injecting UXrelated knowledge into the program at two levels • Individual assignments e.g. Editing, Content Strategy, and Information Architecture, http://bit.ly/1coOV3y • New classes e.g. a gradlevel class in the spring on User Experience Design; for more about this class, see http://slidesha.re/19as98g Anticipated programmatic outcomes of this work: students exposed to new knowledge base; new kinds of culminating student projects Service/Engagement . I’m engaging stakeholders across the university and community on two levels • Presentations and research partnerships e.g. a presentation for the library on why they should adopt UX strategy in their application development process; partnerships with city planners • Curricular and servicelearning partnerships e.g. a business writing class in which students do content strategy with local orgs; industry partners for my UX grad class Anticipated programmatic outcomes of this work: new community and industry partnerships; new internship opportunities for students; making UX knowledge available to local organizations
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This is a handout I created in support of my presentation for CPTSC 2013: http://cptsc.org/. The handout provides a model for building an engaged academic identity around UX design that spans research, teaching, and service.
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Guiseppe Getto . Assistant Professor, Dept. of English Cell: 517-‐574-‐8965 2108 Bate, Mail Stop 555 [email protected] East Carolina University http://guiseppegetto.com Greenville, NC 27858-‐4353 http://twitter.com/guiseppegetto Building UX Knowledge within an Engaged University . As a new assistant professor in the Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) program at ECU, I’m working to inject knowledge about user experience design (UX) into the program, as well as the university-‐at-‐large. Right now, the program is strongest in technical writing, editing, risk communication, health communication, web design, usability, and information design. My main value-‐adds will be new user research methods and new modalities of content strategy/information architecture (e.g. contextual inquiry, field studies, persona development, wireframes, sitemaps, taxonomies, etc.). Because I’m untenured, I’m doing this within the traditional frameworks of research, teaching, and service. Below are some of my current projects and anticipated outcomes. Research . I’m currently at work on two UX-related research projects
• A content strategy and user interface analysis of http://ifixit.com • Persona development and user testing of the North Carolina Coastal Atlas,
http://www.nccoastalatlas.org/ Anticipated programmatic outcomes of this work: grant funding; RAships for students; possible industry partnerships Teaching . I’m injecting UX-related knowledge into the program at two levels
• Individual assignments -‐ e.g. Editing, Content Strategy, and Information Architecture, http://bit.ly/1coOV3y
• New classes -‐ e.g. a grad-‐level class in the spring on User Experience Design; for more about this class, see http://slidesha.re/19as98g
Anticipated programmatic outcomes of this work: students exposed to new knowledge base; new kinds of culminating student projects Service/Engagement . I’m engaging stakeholders across the university and community on two levels
• Presentations and research partnerships -‐ e.g. a presentation for the library on why they should adopt UX strategy in their application development process; partnerships with city planners
• Curricular and service-‐learning partnerships -‐ e.g. a business writing class in which students do content strategy with local orgs; industry partners for my UX grad class
Anticipated programmatic outcomes of this work: new community and industry partnerships; new internship opportunities for students; making UX knowledge available to local organizations
