If you feel your work is related to User Experience, but your business card says Information Architect, Interaction Designer, User Interface Engineer, Concept Designer, Usability Consultant, or similar, you’re welcome too.

The owner of this list is Peter Boersma.

The 8th International IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2008, is the premier international forum for state of the art image and video-based biometric gesture and body movement recognition. This year, we are especially soliciting papers discussing Enabling Behavioral and Contextual Human- Machine Interfaces in areas including behavioral and affective computing, multimodal and context-sensitive interfaces, vision-based human robot interaction, and ambient intelligence.

The Creative Company Conference is the first international conference that brings business and creativity together in one arena, deconstructs the DNA of creative companies to understand their business models, presents the entrepreneurs that play the game of value creation, innovation and creativity in business.

The IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2008) conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Interface Culture and Design with a particular emphasis on the affective aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology interaction. This conference aims to explore and discuss innovative studies of technology and its application in interfaces and welcomes research in progress, case studies, practical demonstrations and workshops in addition to the traditional submission categories.

The Web is in a state of motion: no longer is it primarily being accessed through PCs, but more and more does it find its way into our phones, our cars, on the streets and in buildings. And once there, the Web is interacting with us in smarter and richer ways than before. Bluetooth or RFID in a busstop personalizes the map and advertisements, your friend’s car knows today’s best way to your home, your mobile phone suggests the best place to eat tomorrow, and your online best friends will know you have been there before you have a chance to tell them.

Mobility traditionally refers to characteristics in devices to handle information access, communication and business transactions while in a state of motion. What if we place users at the center of attention? What does mobility mean to humans in a state of motion who interact with technological devices in their surroundings? The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility explores the user experience of the mobile web.

The Web and Beyond is a bi-annual conference on human-computer interaction by CHI Netherlands. The 2006 edition was about Web 2.0 (see UXmatters trip report).

MobileHCI 2008 is the 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. MobileHCI 2008 will be held 2-5 September 2008 at the Royal Tropical Institute Conference Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services.

Suggested topics include:

• Designing (interactive services for) Web sites for mobile devices
• Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology
• Evaluation of mobile devices and services / Usability of mobile devices and services
• Group interaction and mobility
• Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects)
• User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems

MobileHCI 2008 is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE.

The Fourth European conference on information architecture (EuroIA) will be September 26-27, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The 3rd ACM/IEEE International conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2008, is a single track, highly selective annual conference that seeks to showcase the very best in human-robot interaction.

Researchers in robotics, human-factors, ergonomics, and human-computer interaction are invited to attend. Because human-robot interaction is inherently inter-disciplinary, the conference is seeking papers from several disciplines. A primary goal of the conference is to create a common venue for a broad set of researchers.