Annual association conference

UPA 2009 (Portland, OR, USA)

Monday, April 28th, 2008 by Conference Editor
June 8, 2009toJune 12, 2009

The 2009 annual conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association will be June 8-12 in Portland, Oregon.

Over time, more information will be available on the UPA conference page.

IA Summit 2009 (Memphis, TN, USA)

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by Conference Editor
March 18, 2009toMarch 22, 2009

The 10th annual Information Architecture Summit will be in Memphis, Tennessee, March 18th – 22nd, 2009, at the Peabody Memphis Hotel. More information will be posted to iasummit.org (after the 2008 conference is over).

(Originally announced from February 18-22.)

2008 IPCC (Montreal, Canada)

Friday, February 29th, 2008 by Conference Editor
June 13, 2008toJune 16, 2008

The 2008 IEEE Professional Communication Society conference will focus on the theme of “Opening the Information Economy.” The idea is that we are all a part of the information economy, and by participating in it, we both shape and are shaped by the information economy and its practices.

As communication is at the heart of success within this economy, the conference will explore certain communication-based aspects of the information economy. One aspect related to user experience will be information design, usability, and accessibility.

PRSA 2008 (Detroit, MI, USA)

Friday, January 25th, 2008 by Conference Editor
October 25, 2008toOctober 28, 2008

Share your strategies, theories, ideas, research and results with the most dynamic gathering of PR professionals in the world at the Public Relations Society of America’s annual conference, PRSA 2008.

PRSA is seeking public relations and communications professionals, educators and experts in related fields — including CMOs, CEOs, CFOs, economists, social scientists, futurists, management consultants, journalists, bloggers, technologists and editors, as well as specialists in interactive communications and design, marketing communications, technology, research and measurement — to present at this year’s Conference.

HCIS-2008 (Milan, Italy)

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 by Conference Editor
September 7, 2008toSeptember 10, 2008

The 1st IFIP Human-Computer Interaction Symposium, HCIS-2008, will be held in conjunction with 20th IFIP World Computer Congress (a combination of twelve technical conferences).

The domain of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary, active and focal area of both research and industrial application. As the influence and use of computing capability grows, so does the recognition that computing systems will be required to conform to many other criteria than simply those of computing performance. The criteria of usability, acceptability, user satisfaction, accessibility and suitability for user and organisational needs are some of those which are particularly the province of experts in Human-Computer Interaction.

The 1st IFIP Human-Computer Interaction Symposium attempts to bring the various fields together and will highlight the research and industrial importance of the Human-Computer Interaction area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. Topics:

  • Methodologies for user centred system design
  • Human-Work Interaction Design
  • User interface engineering
  • Accessibility and disability
  • Human error, safety and system development
  • Education in HCI
  • HCI in Ubiquitous Environments
  • Cultural differences in HCI
  • Ambient intelligent environments
  • Human-computer dialogue system

Organized by IFIP Technical Committee 13 Human-Computer Interaction.

ASIS&T 2009 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Sunday, January 6th, 2008 by Conference Editor
November 6, 2009toNovember 9, 2009

The 2009 Annual Meeting for the American Society for Information Science and Technology will be November 6-9, 2009, in Vancouver.

Interaction 08 (Savannah, GA, USA)

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 by Conference Editor
February 8, 2008toFebruary 10, 2008

(Updated) Interaction 08 will be February 8-10, 2008 in historic and festive Savannah, Georgia. It will feature two days of inspirational and tactical sessions geared at anyone who practices Interaction Design.

The pre-conference workshops:

  • From Data to Difference workshop
  • Effect Maps for Interaction Designers
  • Agile and Interaction Design
  • Paper Prototyping

Keynotes from the program:

  • Alan Cooper
  • Sigi Moeslinger
  • Bill Buxton
  • Malcolm McCullough

Attendees can also Connect with others before the conference.

Registrations and hotel rooms are filling up fast, so if you are considering going, you should act now.

UPA Europe (Turin, Italy)

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 by Whitney Quesenbery
December 4, 2008toDecember 6, 2008

The first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) will take place on December 4th, 5th and 6th, 2008 in Turin, Italy, when the city is also the 2008 World Design Capital.

The conference is taking place in the Italian city of Turin which will then also organise a large variety of activities as the first ever World Design Capital – a title it was awarded by ICSID (the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design). Reflecting this context, the UPA conference will particularly focus on usability and design.

See www.upaeurope2008.org for more information and how to get involved.

AMCIS 2008 (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Monday, December 17th, 2007 by Conference Editor
August 14, 2008toAugust 17, 2008

The 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008, will be in Toronto, Ontario, 14-17, August 2008. “Learning from the past & charting the future of the discipline” is the theme.

AIS/SIGHCI is sponsoring a mini-track on Human Computer Interaction Studies in Information Systems.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 (Singapore)

Saturday, December 15th, 2007 by Conference Editor
December 10, 2008toDecember 13, 2008

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 will feature works that provoke thought, explore ideas in innovative ways, address contemporary issues, interactively engage viewers in discovery, and stimulate their intellect and creativity.