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Stories
User Experience at SAP
- SAP's UX Strategy new
- SAP Sponsorship Provides Free Textbooks that Enable Better Software Design new
- When Social Gets Serious
- Visualizing the Future
- A Mobile App and User Experience Success Story
- The Beauty of SAP Business ByDesign
- Young, Mobile, and App-fluent
- Transformative User Experience – Beyond Packaged Design
- Dan Rosenberg on Design
- Leading Global UX Teams
- Introducing the Sustainability Session at DUXU 2011
- SAP Helps Apple Keep iPhone Away from Bad Guys – A User Experience Perspective
- Welcome CHI Attendees to SAP at CHI 2011
- Janaki Kumar at LUNAR Podcast "Sustainability Design 2.0"
- SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2010 – A Photo Story
- Beyond Clicking: Successful 2010 SAP User Experience Conference in Shanghai
- SAP User Experience Conference in China 2010
- The Promise of Using UI Patterns For Large Software Packages Revisited
- The PeP Project: Evaluating the Responsiveness of SAP Applications from a User-Centered Perspective
- Providing a Web-Like User Experience to Business Users – The New SAP CRM Web Client User Interface
- A Fresh Look for a Better User Experience
- World Usability Day 2007 – "Making Life Easy"
- Breaking Down Barriers
- World Usability Day 2006: "Making Life Easy"
- World Usability Day 2006 – "Making Life Easy"
- User-Centered Design: SAP Analytics Customer Validation Project
- Multimodal Warehouse Application
- The Art and Science of Usability
- Working as a Designer in a Global Team
Projects
- iKitchen
- Gesture Navigation in Contextual Menus
- Location Based Applications
- Rapid User-Centered Design for Mobile Enterprise Applications
- Knowledge and Innovation in Administrative Areas – Part I
- Knowledge and Innovation in Administrative Areas – Part II
- Software Design with User Interface Patterns: Centered on the User
- Announcing a Project – Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning
- Location-Awareness for Improving the Usability of Mobile Enterprise Applications
- User Interface Design in APO (updated 01/15/2004)
ASUG
- Participant Groks Usability at ASUG 2007 Annual Conference
- SAP User Experience at ASUG/SAPPHIRE 2007!
- SAP Usability Activities at ASUG 2002 Annual Conference & Vendor Fair
- SAP Usability Activities at ASUG 2001
Conference Reports
- CHI 2012 – A Collection of Trip Reports
- Interaction 2012 – Again, a UI Design Practitioner's Report
- SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2011 in Mannheim, Germany – A Photo Story
- SAP's Presence at CHI 2011 in Vancouver, Canada – A Photo Story
- DIS 2010 – A UI Design Practitioner's Report
- SAP's Presence at DIS 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark – A Photo Story
- SAP's Presence at UPA 2010 in Munich, Germany – A Photo Story
- INTERACT 2009 – Research & Practice?
- CHI 2008 Report – Not Only a Rant...
- CHI 2008 – Trip Report
- SAP's Presence at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy – A Photo Story
- SAP's Presence at CHI 2007 in San Jose, California – A Photo Story
- Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign, Potsdam, Germany
- CHI 2006 – A Selective Reflection...
- INTERACT 2005 – Communicating Naturally Through Computers?
- CHI 2005 – Spotting the Trends...
- CHI 2004 – A Personal Report
- SAP's Presence at April's CHI 2004 in Vienna, Austria – A Photo Story
- CHI 2003 – New Horizons, But What Are They?
- CHI 2002 – A Newcomer's Report
- CHI 2002 – Changing the World, Changing Ourselves
- CHI 2001 – Anyone (Karsten). Anywhere (Seattle)
- CHI 2001 – A Personal View
- CHI 2001 – A Collection of Very Subjective Snippets
Future Scope
- Future Scope – The Post-PC Era
- Future Scope – Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration with Intelligent Agents
- Future Scope – A Networked World
- Future Scope – One Backend for All Platforms
- Future Scope – Tangible Information
Links & More
Introducing the Sustainability Session at DUXU 2011
By Christine Ronnewinkel, Janaki Kumar & Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience, SAP AG – July 7, 2011; updated August 9, 2012
SAP User Experience team members Christine Ronnewinkel and Janaki Kumar organized and co-chaired a paper session entitled, "Sustainability: Future Roles, Responsibilities, and Opportunities for the HCI Profession" at the DUXU 2011 conference. This session was part of the first International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability (DUXU) that was jointly held with the HCI International 2011 conference in Orlando, USA, from July 9-14, 2011.
The SAP Design Guild team released a highlight topic entitled, "Designing for a Sustainable Future" to support and promote the paper session. See also the highlight topic for more articles about sustainability.
Figure 1: Christine Ronnewinkel and Janaki Kumar, both from SAP UX, co-chaired the sustainability session at the DUXU 2011 conference
In the following, we will provide an overview of the session and then present a list of short abstracts of the papers.
Overview of the Session
The paper session was entitled, "Sustainability: Future Roles, Responsibilities, and Opportunities for the HCI Profession", (S073) and the organizers co-chairs were Christine Ronnewinkel, SAP, Germany, and Janaki Kumar, SAP Labs, LLC., United States. The session was held on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, from 4 to 6p.m. in the "Union" room.
Papers and Authors
- Future-Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business
Janaki Kumar, Peter Graf, SAP Labs, LLC., United States - Managing a Green Giant: Sustainability Performance Management, a User
Experience Perspective
Benjamin Tomsky, Angad Manco, SAP Labs, LLC., United States. - What Sustainability Brings to the Research Table
Niyati Bedekar, Sally Lawler Kennedy, SAP Labs, LLC., United States - The Grid Intelligent Planning Framework: Planning Electric Utility Investments
in a Time of Accelerating Change
Geoff Ryder, Fatimah Shahid, Sui Yan, SAP Labs, LLC., United States. - User Experience for Personal Sustainability Software: Determining Design
Philosophy and Principles
Aaron Marcus, Jennifer Dumpert, Laurie Wigham, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A), United States
Sequence and Short Abstracts of the Session Papers
This section lists the sequence of papers and contains short abstracts of them.
Paper 1: Future-Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business (Janaki Kumar, Peter Graf)
In their paper, the authors outline the changing attitudes of business leaders toward sustainability and the opportunities this presents to designers.
Paper 2: Managing a Green Giant: Sustainability Performance Management, a User Experience Perspective (Ben Tomsky, Angad Manco)
This case study addresses the research methods, design process, and development collaboration model employed during the development of SAP Sustainability Performance Management.
Paper 3: What Sustainability Brings to the Research Table (Niyati Bedekar, Sally Lawler Kennedy)
This paper discusses the new roles and opportunities of user researchers and their positive impact in the field of sustainability. It focuses on how sustainability and user research relate to each other.
Paper 4: The Grid Intelligent Planning Framework: Planning Electric Utility Investments in a Time of Accelerating Change (Geoff Ryder, Fatimah Shahid, Sui Yan)
In this paper, the authors describe a software solution called Grid Intelligent Planning Framework "GridIntell" – an advanced forecasting solution for utility business and engineering experts. It is an SAP collaboration project with Pacific Northwest National Labs (GridLAB-D = open source power system simulator).
Paper 5: User Experience for Personal Sustainability Software: Determining Design Philosophy and Principles (Jennifer Dumpert, Laurie Wigham, Aaron Marcus)
In this paper, the authors summarize their project with SAP, during which AM+A conducted research into knowledge visualization and created design principles based on that research that led to a final concept for a sustainability product.
References
- HCII 2011 Website
- DUXU 2011: Direct link to thematic area: Design, User Experience, and Usability
- DUXU 2011: Complete Advance Program
- Highlight topic "Designing for a Sustainable Future" (SAP Design Guild)
