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		<title>UPA Auckland -  June meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you design an interactive system that will teach writing and drawing to blind children? How do you evaluate a system with a limited target audience (less than 10 in Auckland)?

Our June presentation will describe the unusual challenges of designing 'McSig' – a multi-modal, multi-user system that utilizes a haptic pen, audio, a tactile writing surface and a tablet PC.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upa.org.nz/upa-auckland-june-meeting/</link>
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		<title>upa wellington - june meeting</title>
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When: 12-1.30pm, Tuesday 3 June 2008
Where: Ground-floor conference room, Statistics House, The Boulevard, Harbour Quays. Further details below.


RSVP by Friday May 30 to upanz.wellington@upa.org.nz

Emotion and Design
Edgar Rodriguez, Victoria University
Edgar Rodriguez is an industrial designer, lecturer, and PhD candidate at the School of Design at Victoria University in Wellington.
&#8220;The emotion that products elicit is an increasingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upa.org.nz/upa-wellington-june-meeting/</link>
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		<title>UPA Auckland - May Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please note that the following event is limited to 40 people. Please RSVP early to secure a spot.
Eye Tracking Demonstration
Speakers: Dr Gerald Weber &#038; Dr Beryl Plimmer 
You are invited to visit the computer science HCI labs at the University of Auckland.
We will demo our new eye-tracking system, eye gaze analysis system and Morae Usability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upa.org.nz/upa-auckland-may-meeting/</link>
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		<title>UPA Auckland &#124; April Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the eye can&#8217;t see&#8230;
or what cognitive psychology can teach us about usability
Speaker: Justine Sanderson - Userfaction Ltd
Ever stared at a computer screen and not seen what you were looking for? Ever had an error message come up, and not noticed it? A couple of psychological phenomena may explain these and other curious happenings we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upa.org.nz/upa-auckland-april-meeting/</link>
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		<title>UPA Auckland - November Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NextWindow optical touch screen technology
Speaker: Keith Colson
Our next presentation will cover how touch screen technology works, compare the various technologies and components, and describe the future of NextWindow touch screens. There will be demonstration hardware to showcase NextWindow&#8217;s functionality.
NextWindow is a leading designer and developer of optical touch screens. Its unique optical touch screen technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upa.org.nz/upa-auckland-november-meeting/</link>
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