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“Joy of Use,” the closing keynote at CanUX 2006, the Canadian User Experience Workshop.

“Joy of Use: The Next Stage in User Experience,” a presentation at the 2006 InnoTech Conference in Austin, Texas.

“Content Usability 1: Writing for the Web,” a full-day tutorial presented as part of the Nielsen Norman Group's User Experience conferences:

• 2006 in San Francisco, Sydney, Seattle and London
• 2005 in Boston and London
• 2004 in Las Vegas and Amsterdam
• 2003 in Chicago and London
• 2001-02 in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, London and Sydney
• 2000-01 in New York, Chicago, London, Munich, Stockholm, Austin, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Sydney and Seattle

“Content Usability 2,” a full-day tutorial presented as part of the Nielsen Norman Group's User Experience conferences:

• 2006 in San Francisco, Sydney, Seattle and London
• 2005 in Boston and London
• 2004 in Las Vegas and Amsterdam

“Competitive Usability Testing,” a full-day tutorial presented as part of the Nielsen Norman Group's User Experience conferences:

• 2005 in Boston and London
• 2004 in Las Vegas and Amsterdam
• 2003 in Chicago and London
• 2001-02 in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, London and Sydney

• 2004 in Las Vegas and Amsterdam
• 2003 in Chicago and London

“Case Study of Improvements in Usability Test Recording and Analysis Using Morae Digital System,” an invited talk at the 2005 Human Factors & Ergonomics Houston Chapter Conference. Morkes, J. & Frazier, D.

“Bringing User Experience into Your Software Development Process,” a talk presented to the IEEE Computer Society, Austin Chapter, on Nov. 19, 2003.
http://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/austin_cs/calendar.html

“Humor Modeling in the Interface,” a workshop presentation at the 2003 Computer-Human Interaction conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL in April. Also published in the conference proceedings: Nijholt, A., Stock, O., Dix, A., & Morkes, J. CHI 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, FL: ACM Press.
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/chi2003-workshop/contributions/Nijholt_et_al.pdf

“Effects of Humor in Task-Oriented Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Mediated Communication,” a presentation given at:

• Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, March 2000
• Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2000.

http://calendar.cs.cmu.edu/hciiPastSeminar/2000-01-10_2000-05-30.html

“Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages,” a presentation at the 1998 Computer-Human Interaction conference in Los Angeles. Published in the conference proceedings: Morkes, J. & Nielsen, J. CHI 1998, Los Angeles: ACM Press.
http://www.experoinc.com/company/rewriting.htm

“Humor in Task-Oriented Computer-Mediated Communication and Human-Computer Interaction,” a presentation at the 1998 Computer-Human Interaction conference in Los Angeles. Published in the conference proceedings: Morkes, J., Kernal, H., & Nass, C. CHI 1998, Los Angeles: ACM Press.

“BIOculars: A Virtual Ecosystem For Wilderness Parks,” a presentation at the 1997 Computer-Human Interaction conference in Los Angeles. Published in the conference proceedings: Morkes, J., Lindsay, J., Muenchinger, K., Chiueh, C., Russell, J., & Vastola, T. CHI 1997, Atlanta: ACM Press. Also published here:
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/short-talk/klm.htm


Morkes, J., Kernal, H. & Nass, C. (2000). "Effects of humor in task-oriented human-computer interaction and computer-mediated communication: A direct test of SRCT theory." Human-Computer Interaction, 14(4).

“Intuitive Software,” Flister, E. & Morkes, J., R&D Magazine, June 1999.

Morkes, J. & Nielsen, J. (1997). "Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web."
http://www.experoinc.com/company/webwriting.htm

Nass, C., Moon, Y., Morkes, J., Kim, E-Y., & Fogg, B.J. (1997). "Computers are social actors: A review of current research." In B. Friedman (Ed.), Human values and the design of computer technology. Stanford, CA: CSLI Press.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575860805.html

Edited an award-winning book (Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book of 1997): Reeves, B. & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. New York: Cambridge University Press/CSLI.
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/site/1575860538.html

“Vertigo Reality,” Wired, December 1994
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/eword.html?pg=10

“Music Ace,” Wired, November 1994
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.11/streetcred.html?pg=12

“Beyond DNA,” Wired, July 1994
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/streetcred.html?pg=3

“The Leprechaun Effect,” Wired, January 1994
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/eword.html?pg=3

“Untamed Genius,” R&D Magazine, September 1991. Republished here:
http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/win92/mullis.html