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M. ALTOM TO ADDRESS USABILITY DAY IN PRINCETONPRINCETON, NJ - October 16. (UsabilityNJ) Mark Altom will address this year’s World Usability Day in New Jersey on November 14 at Sarnoff Corporation Auditorium in Princeton. Altom is a Technical Manager in the Chief Technical Officer’s Organization at Avaya, Inc. in Lincroft, NJ. With 23 years of usability experience in communications products, from networks to hand-held devices, Altom will stress the need for telecommunications products and services to interact. “Work is no longer a 9 to 5 job,” Altom said recently. “It is now possible to be reached anytime, anywhere, by anyone. We need a communication experience where we can control these interactions. We need to decide when we want, by whom we want, and by what device we want to be reached.” Since the theme of this year’s World Usability Day is “New Jersey Innovations Make Life Easy,” Altom focuses on innovations needed in work environments. “We work on remote teams that require virtual meetings, where everyone is multitasking. We each need to manage multiple contacts on multiple devices. It is easy to be overwhelmed by too much information, too much email, a constant barrage of instant messages, and too many voice messages to answer.” Altom’s work addresses cross-product issues in creating a new user experience. Such issues are important to the audience for New Jersey Usability Day: business people, professionals, students, and faculty in areas of business entrepreneurship, communications, marketing, design, human factors, psychology, engineering, and computer science. New Jersey Usability Day is co-sponsored by UsabilityNJ, a local chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association, and by the joint Princeton New Jersey chapters of ACM and IEEE-Computer Society. For more information, visit www.usabilitynj.org and www.worldusabilityday.org . About UsabilityNJ: UsabilityNJ, the New Jersey chapter of the UPA, hosts professional and educational events through the year. UPA is an international, non-profit, professional association with more than 2000 members in the US and 50 other countries. Members are specialists in evaluating and designing products that are easy to learn and use. For more information, visit www.upassoc.org . About Princeton ACM/IEEE-Computer Society: the local chapter is a joint forum for Central New Jersey area computer professionals since 1979; visit www.acm.org/chapters/princetonacm. END
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