Discover Syria - new application online

Politecnico di Milano together with the partners of the SyriaTourism project, funded by the EU-Commission, has developed a new online application for the promotion of cultural tourism in Syria: http://www.discoversyria.org/

Tourism Online Communication - Interview to Lorenzo Cantoni and Davide Bolchini (in Italian)

Ticino Management has published the article "Reti per il Viaggiatore", an exploration into the current trends and future potential of new media for tourism communication, in an interview to Lorenzo Cantoni and Davide Bolchini.
Full online article (in Italian)
http://ticinomanagement.ch/FILES%20VARI/tm_dic/Cover02.pdf

Tips for User Testing - by Jared Spool

http://www.uie.com/articles/usability_tests_learn/

Podcasting Atelier: students produced podcasts for tourism in Lugano

In the course "New Media for Tourism Communication" in the Master of International Tourism (University of Lugano), each group of students - under the coordination of Lorenzo Cantoni, Davide Bolchini and Alessandro Inversini - produced a series of podcasts for the tourist experience in Lugano (Ticino, Switzerland).

Palmyra (Syria)

Our research group (at Politecnico di Milano and University of Lugano) has been involved in the redesign of the online communication for the Ministry of Tourism of Syria (website, interactive multimedia applications, etc), promoting the fantastic cultural heritage attractions of the country.

User Interface Engineering - Virtual Seminar

Virtual online seminar on information architecture
by UIE.COM
Featured Seminar: Gallery Pages: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site

http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/vs6/

Usability.gov

One of the many resources websites about usability.

http://www.usability.gov/

Comunicare i problemi di usabilità: audio podcast

Ascolta l'audiopodcast su: Linee Guida per Comunicare i Problemi di usabilità

Se vuoi aprirlo direttamente un iTUNES ed inziare il download:
Audio PodCast

Se non hai o non vuoi usare iTunes, puoi ascoltare online alcune puntate pubblicate nei messaggi precedenti di questo blog.

3. Linee guida su come comunicare i problemi di usabilità - Livello di Astrazione

Audio podcast su: Linee guida su come comunicare i problemi di
usabilità >> Livello di astrazione

Dr. Davide Bolchini, TEC-Lab, University of Lugano

2. Linee guida su come comunicare i problemi di usabilità - Separation of Concerns

Audio podcast su: Linee guida su come comunicare i problemi di usabilità >> Separation of Concerns (3 minutes audio)

Dr. Davide Bolchini, TEC-Lab, University of Lugano

1. Linee guida su come comunicare i problemi di usabilità - intro

Linee guida su come comunicare i problemi di usabilità >> Introduzione(3 minutes audio)

Dr. Davide Bolchini, TEC-Lab, University of Lugano

Instant PodCasting

Efficient online management for your podcasts, supporting online audio e video recording and easy publishing.

http://www.hipcast.com

Podcasting for Tourism

http://www.visitdublin.com/multimedia/iWalk.aspx?id=275

http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000072/007281.htm

http://www.roughguides.com/podcasts/

Podcasting in universities - practices

>> http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/index.html

IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference

15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
http://www.re07.org

ACM SIG DOC 2006 Conference

The 24th ACM International Conference on
The Design of Communication

http://www.sigdoc2006.org/index.cfm

User Interface Engineering - Jared Spool

Insightful articles, interviews and professional reports about the design of the user experience, with particular emphasis on empirical usability testing.

http://www.uie.com

http://www.uie.com/publications/

The Paradox of Choice (by Barry Schwartz)

The Paradox of Choice - Why Less is More
by Barry Schwartz

Engaging and illuminating vision on how people make choice and how the abundance of options inhibites the decision making process. The results of this research have interesting and deep implications on many issues concerning the design of information architecture, usability and communication design in general.

>> Talk given at Google by Barry Schwartz on April 27, 2006

>> Another more informal talk on the same topics

See Prof. Schwartz's book on Amazon

Useful Resources on Usability

Professionals' websites and community resources about usability approaches, techniques, and methods.

Expert's visions:
http://www.useit.com/
http://www.asktog.com/
http://www.jnd.org/

Reference websites
http://www.hcibib.org/
http://www.hcirn.com/
http://www.usableweb.com/
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/
http://www.usability.gov/
http://www.usabilityviews.com/

Usability Jobs
http://www.usabilitynews.com/
http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/usability_resources/jobs/

Profiles of Davide Bolchini

My personal webpages at the University of Lugano (Switzerland):
http://www.istituti.usilu.net/bolchind/web/
http://www.com.unisi.ch/staff?id=381