Today was the first day of 3rd international conference on human computer interaction hosted by IIIT Bangalore.The original schedule of today was a talk followed by workshop on Industrial Software User Experience, the talk got canceled due to some reason.I could not check my mail this morning before I started for IIITB,so I need to wait for almost 3 hours,luckily I got company with some of the pros in usability field so it was time well spent.This is the third conference in India after IISC and IITB as host for last two conferences.
Industrial Software User Experience Workshop was driven by Dr. Mikko Rissanen who is R&D Scientist at ABB Corporate Research and Dr. Kari Rönkkö who is assistant professor at the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology.It was a good mix of industry and academic people in workshop.first there was introduction to Industrial Software User Experience followed by group discussion on aspects of Software User Experience.The discussion was good and we discussed great many things including how Industrial Software User Experience(IndUX) is different from a more common approach to UX driven by consumer products and web based interaction.
Second part of the workshop was about the metrics used in IndUX and we had discussion about the possible benchmarks,
with everyone having their opinion on the objective question of metrics the discussion reminded me of a quote by Einstein “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” .
While wtf/minute can be good metric for code quality it can be used in UX review as well 
Overall it was a good experience I am looking forward to more fun in coming days with the crowd at India HCI 2011.
