Northwest Ohio

User experience view of Toledo, Ohio, and surrounding parts of northwest Ohio, like Bowling Green. I usually conduct my UX activities thru the local ACM chapter, NWOACM.

UX core

• MOCHI serves northwest Ohio, based in Ann Arbor (but not active lately)
• No UPA chapter in the area, but UPA is very active in Detroit (1 hour away) and Cleveland (2 hours away), and forming in Columbus (2 hours away)

UX specialties

• There is not a STC professional chapter, but there once was an active BGSU STC student chapter
• The nearest ASIS&T chapters are in Michigan, Cleveland, Columbus and Southern Ohio
• Toledo AIGA was formed in 2007

UX application

• There are no HFES chapters in the area (but there are several in southern Ohio)
• IDSA Northern Ohio
• Refresh Toledo is just forming

UX interest

• Northwest Ohio .net User Group
• PRSA NWO
• BGSU AMA
• U. Toledo student ACM
• BGSU ACM
• Toledo IEEE

Sample UX-related events

• Most of the local events related to UX have been done by me - so my list of local presentations is about it. NWOACM will be organizing whatever is coming up.

People and companies

• Me! (adding links to others later)

Academia

• BGSU Computer Science has a focus in HCI with Laura Leventhal doing related research