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GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS NOVEMBER 14 NEW JERSEY USABILITY DAYPRINCETON, NJ - November 6, 2006. (UsabilityNJ) When you can’t use a product, who you gonna call? UsabilityNJ, the local chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association, for one. When you’ve got a great innovation, where you gonna go? As the Governor might say, New Jersey Usability Day, where the theme is “New Jersey Innovations Make Life Easy.” Governor Jon S. Corzine has proclaimed November 14, 2006 as “New Jersey Usability Day.” The State now joins the growing list of over 150 locations around the world where local events are showing everyone how to improve products and services for life and work. This second annual World Usability Day promotes every customer’s right to ask for things that work better. Explains UsabilityNJ President and New Jersey resident, Dr. Yihsiu Chen, “usability engineering is the science and art that makes innovations practical, easy to use, and valuable to companies and customers. Usability engineering is a part of our State’s heritage of innovation.” “We thank the Governor for helping us,” said Dr. Yihsiu Chen. “This event brings together professionals in human factors, engineering, and computer science to meet with students, innovators, and the business community. Along with our customers, we all have a stake in delivering the full value of New Jersey innovations to the marketplace.” The free event is hosted at Sarnoff Corporation Auditorium in Princeton from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM on Tuesday, November 14, 2006. 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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