Scope & Objectives
The Samvera User Experience (UX) interest group meets to discuss any aspect of the user experience, including usability, design, UX methods, and user interface consistency. The purpose of these discussions is to improve users' experiences with applications and systems. Such improvements are expected to occur through sharing of information and expertise across projects and institutions. The interest group began as a result of Hydra User Experience Unconference Session: Friday 1:45-3 p.m. at the Hydra Connect January 2014 meeting in San Diego.
Meeting Times & Communication Channels
2:00pm EST: Meetings are currently scheduled once a month on the third Tuesday of each month.
Call connection details will be posted in the Slack UX Interest Group channel 15 minutes prior to meeting start time.
Members
Organizers
- Jenn Colt (Cornell University)
- Adam J. Arling (Northwestern University)
Other regular participants and interested parties
- Sonya Betz (University of Alberta)
- Tim Broadwater (West Virginia University)
- Kevin Reiss (Princeton University)
- Jill Heinze (University of Virginia)
- David McCallum (University of Oregon)
- Mike Eaton (Oregon State University)
- Lisa Haitz (University of Cincinnati)
- Chris Awre (University of Hull)
- Patricia Hswe (Penn State)
- deibel (University of Washington)
- sally.rumsey (University of Oxford)
- nik.dragovic (Emory University)
- Chris Diaz (Northwestern University)
- Harsh Parekh (University of Notre Dame)
Resources
Notes/recordings from monthly calls
Date | Topics | Notes/Recordings | Related materials |
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19 September 2017 | Monthly call | 2017-09-19 Meeting notes | |
15 August 2017 | Monthly call | 2017-08-15 Meeting Notes | |
July 2017 | Canceled for Samvera Virtual Connect | ||
20 June 2017 | Monthly call | 2017-06-10 Meeting Notes | |
16 May 2017 | Monthly call | 2017-05-16 UXIG Meeting Notes | Recording | |
18 April 2017 | Monthly call | 2017-04-18 UXIG Monthly Call | |
21 March 2017 | Monthly call | Notes | |
21 Feb 2017 | Monthly call | Notes | |
17 Jan 2017 | Monthly call | Notes | |
20 Dec 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
18 Oct 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
27 Sept 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
16 August 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
19 July 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
21 Jun 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
19 Apr 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
15 Mar 2016 | Monthly call | 2016-03-15 Meeting notes | OD Recommendations from Usability.docx |
19 Jan 2016 | Monthly call | Notes | |
15 Dec 2015 | Monthly call | Agenda, Notes | |
17 Nov 2015 | Monthly call | 2015-11-17 Notes | |
20 Oct 2015 | Monthly call | Notes | |
2 July 2015 | Monthly call: Discussion of Avalon Accessibility testing | Notes | |
7 May 2015 | Monthly call
| Recording, Hydra UX call - 7 May 2015 | |
2 April 2015 | Monthly call | Recording, Notes | |
5 March 2015 | Monthly call (featuring demo of a fix on Blacklight's facet label wrapping) | Recording, Notes | |
4 December 2014 | This month the call will focus on Spotlight, the Blacklight plug-in enabling the presentation of online exhibitions. Discussion will center around the following areas, though there will also hopefully be space to raise other questions as well within these:
| Recording, Hydra UX call - 4 Dec 2014 | Send Spotlight suggestions and questions to |
6 Nov 2014 | Hydra Connect 2 followup | Recording, Notes | |
3 July 2014 | Monthly call | Notes from July 3 2014 Hydra UX call | |
5 June 2014 | Examples of user research activities and deliverables | Recording | Avalon user needs report |
1 May 2014 | Introductions, discussion of future call topics, demo of Avalon Media System | Minutes of the Hydra UX Inaugural Meeting |
Hydra UX Discussion Notes from Meetings
Unconference session at Hydra Connect 2, October 2014: Hydra UX interest group notes from Hydra Connect 2
Unconference session at Hydra Connect, January 2014: Hydra User Experience Unconference Session: Friday 1:45-3 p.m.