PRESS RELEASE: Program Announced, Registration Opened for Human Factors Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Brian Mangin
608.260.9000, ext. 309
BMangin@optavia.com

PROGRAM ANNOUNCED, REGISTRATION OPENED FOR HUMAN FACTORS CONFERENCE
Web accessibility, CRM, mobile interface design highlighted by industry
leaders

MADISON, WI (April 17, 2001) - Optavia Corporation today announced the
program for the 7th Conference on Human Factors and the Web (HFWeb) and
tutorials on June 4-6, 2001 in Madison, Wisconsin.  Free online conference
registration was also announced, available at the conference web site,
http://www.optavia.com/hfweb.

	Optavia Corporation is hosting this year's HFWeb conference, which
is a major annual event for human factors professionals - engineers,
developers, and designers - to share and promote ideas and resources towards
a more useful and usable web.  Previous HFWeb hosts include Microsoft
Corporation, IBM and SBC Technology Resources, AT&T, and US West
Communications. The theme of this year's event, "Universal Access: More
People, More Situations," highlights increasingly critical issues of
accessibility and usable design.

	Leaders in a number of industries, including human factors, wireless
Internet technology, user-centered design, and accessibility, will give
presentations and tutorials. Specific topics include mobile interface
design, prototyping and evaluation techniques, accessible web design, and
customer relationship management. A complete listing of the conference
program and tutorial topics is available at the conference web site.

	The conference will be held June 4 at the Monona Terrace Convention
Center, and is free to registered attendees. The tutorials will be held June
5-6, also at the Monona Terrace.  Details of the tutorial fees are available
at the conference web site. An early registration discount applies to
tutorial registrations received prior to May 2.

	For questions about the conference or tutorials, visit the
conference web site, http://www.optavia.com/hfweb, or contact the conference
coordinator, Kary Lehman, at 608-260-9000.

	Optavia Corporation (http://www.optavia.com) designs the usable
interface that connects you with your customers. Optavia's user-centered
techniques illuminate your customers' needs, behaviors, and expectations,
taking the guesswork out of interface design. Optavia's training, research,
and flexible consulting products guide your team in creating effective,
usable technology built with the customer in mind. Optavia's accessibility
services open your organization to more people, in more situations. Bringing
together the needs of your business and your customers, Optavia makes
technology usable.
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Received on Tuesday, 17 April 2001 16:48:53 UTC