Conference

IIiX 2008 (London, UK)

Information Interaction in Context 2008 is a symposium by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society.

IIiX will explore the relationships between the contexts that affect information retrieval and seeking, how these contexts impact on information behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts can help design truly interactive information systems.

IIiX invites research contributions that approach information contexts from a broad range of perspectives, such as context surrounding documents, context influencing seeking, humans and their tasks, the context of information seekers and providers, the context of interactive search, and the technical contexts of information systems.

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Oz-IA/2008 Pre-Conference Workshops (Sydney, Australia)

Oz-IA have seven pre-conference workshops scheduled for the Thursday 18th and Friday 19th preceding the Oz-IA/2008 conference proper, and are competitively priced: the half day workshops are $300 each (inc GST), or $240 to conference attendees, and the full day workshop is $550 (inc GST), or $440 to conference attendees. (UXnet.org readers are eligible for a discount on conference tickets)

Designing the Search Experience

Rebecca Rodgers

Half Day Workshop

Thursday 18th September, 8.30am-12.30pm

Poor search is one of the greatest sources of user frustration with websites and intranets. Worse yet, the inadequacies of search may be consigning these sites as a whole to failure. If users can’t find information when they need it, will they even come to the site?

Research methods for Information Architecture

Patrick Kennedy

Half Day Workshop

Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm-5.30pm

Learn the fundamentals of “design research” from the perspective of IA, including hands-on activities based around key techniques for understanding users and their needs.

Accessible forms with WCAG 2.0

Roger Hudson

Half Day Workshop

Thursday 18th September, 8.30am-12.30pm

When it comes to forms, WCAG 2.0 offers considerable accessibility benefits. This workshop will outline how to make WCAG 2.0 compliant forms that are more accessible and usable for everyone.

Styling WCAG 2.0 accessible forms with CSS

Russ Weakley

Half Day Workshop

Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm-5.30pm

Forms are possibly the hardest aspect of page layouts to style. This workshop will outline how to take WCAG 2.0 compliant forms and lay them out them using CSS.

Eye Tracking: Actionable lessons for improved website design

James Breeze

Half Day Workshop

Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm-5.30pm

A hands-on and highly practical workshop examining how Eye Tracking provides insights and learnings which can improve your website designs.

IA: Theory & practice

Donna Spencer

Full Day Workshop

Friday 19th September, 8.30am-5.30pm

This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice.

Interaction Design Studio

Shane Morris

Half Day Workshop

Friday 19th September, 8.30am-12.30pm

Half your skills as an interaction designer come from books, the other half from practice. In established design disciplines, the ‘studio’ is where designers hone their skills, rationale and intuition. Most people working in Interaction Design haven’t had the benefit of being able to explore design outside of ‘real’ work projects – hence this mini ”Interaction Design Studio”.

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Oz-IA/2008: Australia’s Information Architecture Conference (Sydney, Australia)

Oz-IA invites your participation to this premier Australian event on Information Architecture for the web. Join them in Sydney, Australia on the weekend of September 20th-21st, 2008, for two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Australia and beyond.

Who should attend?

• Designers of navigation, organization, labeling, and search systems that help people find and manage information more successfully,
• Librarians, webmasters, and content owners responsible for creating taxonomies and information architectures,
• Application developers who design web and software solutions and select the technologies and staff to support them,
• Project and business managers needing to understand the benefits and challenges of information architectures in electronic information spaces.

Conference Program

The call for short and advanced conference sessions has closed and was very successful. With more than 70 very interesting proposals on many great topics, and whittling the list down to just 22 sessions on the program was not an enviable task.

View the conference program…

Early bird registrations are $660, or $550 with discount code “uxnet08″.
Regular registrations are $770, or $660 with discount code “uxnet08″.

Posted in Calendar | Conference | Sydney, Australia
Tags: australia | ia | information architecture | sydney
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The Market Research Event 2008 (Anaheim, CA, USA)

The Market Research Event covers the latest and greatest in how research can be used to affect change and drive business forward. UPA partners with the Market Research Event to present the User Design/Experience Symposium:

• Dovetailing: Making Macro-Micro Connections for People-Centered Innovation
• Designing a World-Class Customer Satisfaction Measurement Process for Web
• Design-Driven Deliverables: Adding Dimension to Your Research
• Developing a Multi-Variate Testing Program for your Website – A Primer
• Starwood Hotels & Resorts: Multiple Brands, Common Threads
• The Convergence of Disciplines: Combining Analytics, Insights and Design to Drive Change and Innovation
• Everyone Has A Story to Tell: Listen Deeply and Bring Your Customers’ Stories to Life

See iirusa.com for more information.

Posted in Calendar | Conference | Los Angeles, CA, USA | UPA
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C&T 2009 (University Park, PA, USA)

Communities and Technologies (C&T) is a premier scholarly forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities — physical and virtual — and information and communication technologies.

C&T 2009 welcomes participation of researchers, designers, educators, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology. These areas include anthropology, art and architecture, business, cognitive science, communication studies, community informatics, computer science, design studies, education, ergonomics, geography, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, industrial engineering, interaction design, journalism, knowledge management, law, learning science, linguistics and semiotics, management, psychology, requirements engineering, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, and user experience design.

C&T 2009 welcomes contributions on topics including, but not limited to, communities and e-government; communities and innovation; communities of interest; communities of practice; (virtual) community formation and development; community-oriented e-commerce business models; design methods for community technology; community informatics; economics of technology-facilitated communities; ethnographic and case studies; innovations in community technology design and innovative applications; interaction in large-scale online communities; knowledge sharing and organizational learning; learning/education and community technology; persistent conversation in technology-facilitated communities; regional development issues; social capital and community technology; social movements and community technology; supporting collaboration in local and distributed communities; system platforms for e-community research; technical support for communities; trust, privacy, and security issues; and virtual business communities.

The conference program includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as workshops, tutorials, a doctoral consortium, and invited speakers.

See cct2009.ist.psu.edu for more information.

Posted in Calendar | Conference | University Park, PA, USA
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dConstruct 2008

dConstruct 2008 is the affordable one day conference for people designing and building the latest generation of social web applications. It takes place on September 5th, 2008 at Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton, UK

Speaking from personal experience, dConstruct is one of the UK’s best web conferences. I’m really looking forward to this years event.

This year’s topic is Designing the Social Web, the line-up is as follows:

• Steven Johnson
• Aleks Krotoski
• Joshua Porter
• Daniel Burka
• Tantek Çelik
• Matt Biddulph
• Matt Jones
• Jeremy Keith

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SXSW Interactive 2009 (Austin, TX, USA)

The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!

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EPIC 2008 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

EPIC is the premier international forum bringing together artists, computer scientists, designers, social scientists, marketers, academics and advertisers to discuss recent developments and future advances around ethnographic praxis. The theme of EPIC2008 is Being Seen: Paradoxes and Practices of (In)Visibility.

See epic2008.com for more information.

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CHI 2009 (Boston, MA, USA)

Computing is reaching into all parts of modern life. CHI 2009 will be the showcase for the technologies, designs and ideas that will form the new world of digital life. There are many exciting new ways in which computing can improve life in many parts of the world. CHI 2009 will be the place to see that happen.

CHI 2009 will be held in Boston, MA, USA. Many of the pioneering computer companies had their home in the Boston area. It is also the home of some of the great computing research universities.

See chi2009.org for more information.

Posted in ACM SIGCHI | Annual association conference | Boston, MA, USA | Calendar | Conference
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IA Konferenz 2009 (Hamburg, Germany)

Wir freuen uns bekannt geben zu können, dass die nächste deutschsprachige Konferenz für Informationsarchitektur im Mai 2009 in Hamburg stattfinden wird.

Hamburger Wappen Ab 2009 wird die Konferenz jährlich jeweils im Mai stattfinden, um Terminkollisionen mit anderen relevanten Konferenzen und Events zu reduzieren und um die IA Konferenz zu einem festen Termin im Berufsumfeld der Informationsarchitektur und User Experience zu etablieren. Und nicht zuletzt, um der Kälte des Novembers zu entfliehen und das hoffentlich mildere Maiwetter genießen zu können …

Die IA Konferenz 2009 wird wieder international bekannte Sprecher, inspirierende Vorträge, intensive Workshops und vielfältige Postersessions bieten.

Wir freuen uns jetzt schon auf eine großartige IA Konferenz nächstes Jahr in Hamburg. An dieser Stelle finden Sie in Kürze weitere Informationen zum Motto der Konferenz und zur Möglichkeit der Einreichung von Konferenzvorträgen.

iakonferenz.org

Posted in Calendar | Conference | Hamburg, Germany | IAI
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