ACM SIGCHI

PhillyCHI and PANMA Happy Hour

Come out and join PhillyCHI and PANMA for a beer, or two!

Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:30 - 7:30
National Mechanics, 22 S 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106
http://www.nationalmechanics.com
RSVP: phillychi@gmail.com (nice, but not necessary)

About PhillyCHI

PhillyCHI is a Philadelphia-area professional group for those interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability and other related disciplines. We meet twice a month to network and discuss current topics in UX and HCI. For more information, visit http://phillychi.acm.org

About PANMA

The Philadelphia Area New Media Association serves individuals and companies involved in digital development. By offering a professionally and socially friendly environment, PANMA enhances the interconnections in our community, encourages locally trained and educated professionals to make their homes in the Philadelphia region, and increases employment and business opportunities for our industry.

The Philadelphia Area New Media Association supports the regional digital development community.

We are web designers, graphic artists, database developers, programmers, information architects, marketers and other professionals.

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DIMEA 2008 (Athens, Greece)

The 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2008, is the premier forum for the presentation of societal, business and technological advances and research results in cross-disciplinary areas related with digital interactive media in entertainment, art and creative technologies. This conference is dedicated to build common ground between research, design and development, learning and collaboration in its myriad digital media forms: one of its many objectives is the exploration of ‘play & learn’, demonstrating new arenas and applications for digital gaming and incorporating leading edge technologies, designs and models in our changing views about what is involved in gaming.

Topics include:

• Entertainment, Art and Technology
• New Media Emerging Technologies
• Code Art
• Digital Visual and Auditory Media
• Moving Media
• Culture of New Media
• Interactive Stories

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Eat, Drink, & Network (Atlanta, GA, USA)

CHI*Atlanta, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), and the Atlanta Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) invite you to an evening of networking with the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) - Atlanta Chapter. This will be a great opportunity for our chapters to get acquainted and talk shop in a pleasant atmosphere. We reserved space at Eclipse di luna, which offers a varied tapas menu and a lovely patio should we have some warm weather.

See CHI*Atlanta for more information.

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CyberGames 2008 (Beijing, China)

The Fourth International Conference on Games Research and Development, CyberGames 2008, will explore the latest developments in the game and interactive entertainment industry. Papers are invited in the following games research and development topics (but not limited to them) from both industry and academia:

• HCI for Games
• Agents for Games
• Online and Multiplayer Games
• Interactive Digital Media

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Taxonomy is User Experience (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

The PhillyCHI February Meeting is Taxonomy is User Experience by Dave Cooksey. This presentation will approach taxonomies from the user’s perspective. It will begin by introducing a simple conceptual framework that communicates the centrality of taxonomies to user experience. Then, the presentation will cover:

• the virtues of thinking of taxonomy in terms of the user experience and not simply as data or classification
• ways of talking about taxonomy that clearly communicate its value to the business and help promote taxonomy as a practice
• how to craft a user-centric taxonomy by examining several e-commerce redesign case studies

By discussing taxonomy and metadata in terms of user experience, we will learn to communicate better with the business, inform our co-workers how to create more engaging user experiences, and bring the user into the taxonomy creation process.

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IUE 2008 (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

Internet User Experience 2008, sponsored by UXnet, is a conference spotlighting methods for dramatically improving today’s web site user experience. This fourth annual conference brings you top industry speakers, practitioners, and authors to provide you with the most complete package of Internet user experience design training, case studies, and real-world examples ever assembled.

We cover most aspects of web site design and strategy, including user experience design, graphics, branding, marketing message, effective web writing, and enhancements that drive customers to your site.

The program includes half-day and full-day tutorials, student posters, presentations and a full-day workshop (after the main conference).

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Tour of IBM’s Innovation Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada)

The February ToRCHI meeting is a Tour of IBM’s Innovation Centre. The IBM Customer Facing Solutions (CFS) User Experience team, working out of the Toronto Innovation Centre is a one-stop-shop for interactive solutions. We deliver exceptional user experiences across all customer touch points, implementing multichannel business solutions for clients in all sectors across Canada, the U.S., and internationally.

IBM’s User Centered Design (UCD) methodology encompasses the entire process of designing and developing compelling experiences for the Web, kiosks, intranets, business applications, pervasive devices, and more. UCD is an iterative methodology that integrates the outputs of differentiated strategic, creative, and technical work streams to build a compelling interactive customer experience.

See the ToRCHI site for more information.

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GatewayCHI meeting (St. Louis, MO, USA)

The GatewayCHI monthly meeting for February will be on the 27th.

GatewayCHI exists to share and support a common interest in usability and interface design, to improve the knowledge and skills of our members in user interface practices, and to educate the St. Louis community about the value and practice of usability and interface design in all components of system and software development.

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Copy is interface (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

BayCHI’s February program meeting is Copy is interface by Erica Hall.

Erika Hall co-founded Mule Design in September 2001, hoping to make web design more humane. She now acts as the Lead Strategist for the company, who have worked with numerous big brands such as Six Apart, Sphere, Yahoo! and Wall Street Journal to bring new dynamics to web design.

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UIST 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA)

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. UIST 2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.

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