If you were to better understand how you, your clients and customers process information would you produce better quality content? Would you be able to design, develop, test, and deploy better products? Would this increase sales or reduce service calls due to “user error? Would client satisfaction improve? Why not find out. Attend the Games to Explain Human Factors: Come, Participate, Learn and Have Fun!!! workshop at DocTrain 2008 in Burlington.

Using a Game Show format and at least 25 activities and games, this session illustrates how information developers and other professionals can optimize information design and other aspects of their solutions to capitalize on human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses.

We’ll first study the steps involved as people process information: sense, perceive, learn, store information in memory, retrieve information from memory, make decisions, respond, and interact in a social environment. We’ll emphasize learning about human strengths and weaknesses at each step along the way so that you will be able to better design to optimize utilization of these strengths and compensate for these weaknesses in the information and systems that you design, develop, test and deploy.

Next, we’ll discuss some tools of the trade: observation, task analysis, usability testing, and communication. We’ll review what you can do right after the session. We’ll conclude our formal session with a comprehension check (final exam) that will be fun and will provide a chance to explain how you might use some of the principles learned during the session as well as catch up on a few details that you may have missed during the session.

Finally, we’ll award nice prizes to our winners.

As an added bonus, you’ll learn how to lead some educational (and fun) activities with your colleagues, family (including the elementary and high school kids), and friends when you return home.

This highly interactive session is an excellent way to begin your four day conference experience while learning, having fun, and possibly winning prizes.

While everyone’s experience with Games is slightly different, here is what several of our participants have said about the session:

A great way for people to learn without even trying.
Very good practical application and examples.
A lot of fun and very interesting. I could apply this to life situations.
Examples proved that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Made it easy to see points being made.
Content was great. Exercises illustrated points very well.
Thank you for your wonderful presentation. Your games and explanations made human factors very understandable. I cannot wait to share the information you presented with the staff at my facility!

Please come to Games to Explain Human Factors. If you participate, you will learn, have fun, and possibly develop ideas that will ultimately help you to advance your career!!!