Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in UX Design: A Program Review and AR Case Studies

Today’s user experience (UX) educators and designers can no longer just focus on creating more usable systems, but must also rise to the level of strategists, using design thinking and human–computer interaction (HCI) solutions to improve academic and business outcomes. Both psychological, designer, and engineering approaches are adopted in this study. An invited program review committee met to review progress of the UX program at the Beijing Normal University (BNUX). They considered issues and challenges facing the program today, and the steps that it could make to develop further. During a recent augmented reality (AR) project on designing future life experience on smart home and wearables, several experiential concepts and prototypes were generated to demonstrate HCI and UX research directions. The committee was impressed by BNUX with its energy, enthusiasm, and a sense of purpose on practicing transdisciplinary teaching and learning activities. Recommendations on the current organization of education, the relation between project-based learning and research, and opportunities for exposure and visibility are provided.

Independent Country Program Review Suriname 2016-2020

This Independent Country Program Review (ICPR) analyzes the IDB Group's country strategy (CS) and country program with Suriname during the 2016-2020 period. ICPRs assess the relevance of the Bank's CS and provide aggregate information on the program alignment and execution. If the available information allows it, ICPRs also report on progress toward achieving the objectives that the IDB Group established by the CS. This review by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) is intended to provide the Boards of Executive Directors of the IDB and IDB Invest with useful information to analyze the country strategies submitted for their consideration.

Abstracts from the 41st Annual National Academy of Neuropsychology Conference

The abstracts published in this special edition are provided as a service to the membership of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, the conference attendees, and the field of clinical neuropsychology. Abstracts in this issue have been reviewed by the Poster Committee for the 41st Annual Conference of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. They have not undergone the standard peer-reviewed process for papers published in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. The Conference Poster Chair and the Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology request that the following method be used in citing published abstracts based upon a poster presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Author 1 & Author 2 (2021) [Abstract published in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, vol, page number]. Abstract Title. Based upon poster presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. National Academy of Neuropsychology Abstracts from the 41st Annual Conference November 10–13, 2021. Conference Abstracts Accepted under the Guest Editorship of Victoria C. Merritt, Ph.D., Poster Chair. Members of the 2021 NAN Poster Program Review Committee: Ana Arenivas Patrick Armistead-Jehle Jacques Arrieux John Bernstein Veronica Burton Noelle Carlozzi Wesley Cole Nathan Cook Douglas Cooper Jeremy Davis Mark Ettenhofer Laura Grande Mirjana Ivanisevic Brian Ivins Colleen Jackson Mi-Yeoung Jo Katherine Kane Justin Karr Sahra Kim Sara Lippa Ashlee Loughan Roy Martin Victoria Merritt Audrina Mullane Kevin O′ Brien Brett Parmenter Surabhi Patwardhan Russell Pella Summer Rolin Karen Sullivan Matthew Thornton Amery Treble-Barna Geoffrey Tremont Dede Ukueberuwa Michael Williams Vanessa Williams Kristin Wilmoth Steven Woods