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Georgia Statewide Effort on Accessible Technologies

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CHI*Atlanta Past Chair Bill Curtis-Davidson and CHI*Atlanta member Arthur R. Murphy are co-chairing a statewide effort called the “Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies” (GAAT), currently an initiative of the United Nations’ Global Initiative for Inclusive Information & Communication Technologies (G3ict). G3ict is a non-profit agency headquartered in Atlanta, and GAAT is intended to serve as a model for regional public-private partnerships on the topic of ICT accessibility. Over 60 Georgia-based companies, research and academic institutions, NGOs and public sector organizations have been involved in GAAT, and the initiative is exploring six “digital accessibility” thematic areas: Culture & Human Rights, Education, Employment, Healthcare & Rehabilitation, Technology, and Travel & Tourism (T&T).

In 2010, the GAAT Initiative plans to become an independent non-profit organization, and Bill and Arthur will describe some projects GAAT is pursuing this year in its focus area of inclusive travel, transportation and tourism. The GAAT Initiative has prepared a “Georgia Inclusive Travel & Tourism” concept paper, that Bill and Arthur will preview: http://sites.google.com/site/gaallianceaccessibletech/Home/themes/travel-tourism/georgia-inclusive-t-t-documents/G3ict_GAAT_TTConceptPaper_20091211FINAL.pdf?attredirects=0

Three GAAT participants will also participate in this panel-style discussion to describe various aspects of their research and development in the focus area. CHI*Atlanta has been a participant in the GAAT Initiative, and Bill and Arthur will welcome questions and encourage interest on the part of CHI*Atlanta members who may want to support this important effort!

Speakers:

1. Bill Curtis-Davidson, GAAT Co-Chair; Past Chair, CHI*Atlanta; and Business Development Executive, IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center (http://www.ibm.com/able/)
2. Arthur R. Murphy, GAAT Co-Chair, and Owner, Aeolian Solutions, LLC Aeolian Solutions (http://aeoliansolutions.com/)
3. Anisio Correia (Panelist), Vice President for Programs at the Center for the Visually Impaired - Georgia (http://www.cviga.org/)
4. Daver Malik (Panelist), Research & Development Coordinator, Information Services, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (http://www.atlanta-airport.com/)
5. Bruce Walker, Ph.D. (Panelist), Associate Professor, School of Psychology and the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech; and Director, GT Sonification Lab (http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/)

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Rahel Bailie on Workhorse Strategy for Workhorse Content

Join CHI*Atlanta to kick off 2010 with Rahel Bailie’s perspective on content strategy.

Content strategy has opened up a new paradigm for considering user experience: in the online search for information, the user experience is the treasure hunt; the content is the treasure being hunted. UX professionals are starting to shift design methods from pouring content into decorative boxes to designing for optimum delivery of content. However, designing for instructive content can be quite different than designing for persuasive content, with a set of priorities that differs, though overlaps, those generally considered in the UX world. Each genre of content has its unique challenges for design and delivery. This presentation looks at how the medium affects the message and how to deal with the thornier ways of designing for content re-use and single-sourcing for the content genres beyond the marketing messages.

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The Healthcare Experience: Understanding Health Records

The healthcare experience depends largely on electronic health records. But what are they, exactly? This program at Philips Design will break down EHRs, PHRs, and EMRs in a way user experience professionals understand. A panel including CDC and Kaiser Permanente will offer a range of perspectives.

By the end of the panel, you will understand the differences between the health record terms, list three ways electronic records affect health/healthcare, and identify three considerations/dilemmas practitioners face when working in this field. As the first in a two-part series, this program lays the foundation for a second future program about designing for healthcare.

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DIS 2010 (Aarhus, Denmark)

The ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference addresses design as an integrated activity spanning technical, social, cognitive, organizational, and cultural factors. It brings together professional designers, ethnographers, systems engineers, usability engineers, psychologists, design managers, product managers, academics and anyone involved in the design of interactive systems. Topics will include:

• Approaches to interaction: Aesthetic interaction - Experience design - Engaging interaction - Kinaesthetic interaction - Usability.
• Interaction technology: Mobile devises - Sensors - Huge and tiny displays - Actuators - Smart materials.
• Interaction design for: The home - Urban life and rural areas - Schools - Museums - Digital art - Games and Play - News - Community building - The workplace.
• The design process: Tools and techniques - Materials and representations - Innovation - Reflection on design processes - Management and business aspects.

The conference brings together professionals and researchers from industry as well as academia involved in the design of interactive systems addressing design from a multiplicity of areas including:

• Arts - Aesthetics - Architecture - Business - Computer science - Cultural studies - Design Thinking - Engineering - Ethnography - Interaction design - Product design - Psychology - Sociology.

See dis2010.org for more information.

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HRI 201 (Osaka, Japan)

Robots are becoming part of people’s everyday social lives – and will increasingly become so. In future years, robots may become caretaking assistants for the elderly, or academic tutors for our children, or medical assistants, day care assistants, or psychological counsellors. Robots may become our co-workers in factories and offices, or maids in our homes. They may become our friends. As we move to create our future with robots, hard problems in human-robot interaction (HRI) exist, both technically and socially.

The 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction seeks to take up the grand technical and social challenges in the field – and speak to their integration. HRI is a single-track, highly selective annual conference that seeks to showcase the very best research in human-robot interaction with roots in robotics, psychology, cognitive science, HCI, human factors, artificial intelligence, organizational behavior, anthropology, and many other fields. We invite broad participation.

The topics for this conference include:

• Socially intelligent robots
• Personal and entertainment robots
• Long-term interaction
• Learning and adaptation with humans
• Non-verbal and Multi-modal interaction
• User studies of HRI
• Ethical issues and social responsibility
• Organizational/societal impact

See hri2010.org for more information.

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MobileHCI 2009 (Bonn, Germany)

The 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 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 for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• Interfaces for mobile communities
• In-car user interfaces
• Interaction techniques
• Interaction metaphors
• Multimodal interaction
• Audio / speech interaction
• Mobile interaction
• Group interaction and mobility
• Social aspects in mobile
• Context-aware systems
• End user development and personalization
• Mobile entertainment
• Usability of mobile devices and services
• User centred design for mobile systems
• Ethnographical and field studies

See mobilehci09.org for more information.

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UIST 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada)

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM’s special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings 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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WEB CONTENT STRATEGY: Where UX, Marketing, and IT Meet

Location: Georgia Tech Global Learning Center  -  Map
Cost: $15 for CHI*A or AIMA Members, $25 for Nonmembers

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In recent years, the people responsible for crafting our online experiences have – slowly but surely, and perhaps unwittingly – marginalized the process of creating and maintaining content customers actually care about. “Nobody really reads online.” “The design drives the experience.” “We can always fill in/fix the content later.”

Companies and agencies spend months and millions of dollars on how they’ll deliver content online, yet allocate very few resources toward creating and governing the content itself. Why? Distributed ownership, internal politics, scope creep, higher-than-anticipated costs … content is messy. To make matters worse, most of us don’t have the internal infrastructures necessary to support its ongoing care and feeding.

So. Who needs to “own” our content? How effective are web editorial standards and policies? What role does content strategy play in user experience design? When it comes to the CMS, will marketing and IT ever get along?

Kristina Halvorson, author of Content Strategy for the Web, will lead a conversation with representatives from marketing, user experience, and content management about the emerging discipline of web content strategy. We’ll discuss new opportunities for agencies and organizations to rethink the way they plan for and manage content.

MODERATOR: KRISTINA HALVORSON
Kristina Halvorson is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading web content strategists. For more than a decade, Kristina has led content projects for hundreds of websites across dozens of industries. She is a passionate advocate for web content strategy and speaks regularly on the topic to audiences around the country.

THE PANELISTS

USER EXPERIENCE: Karen McGrane, Bond Art + Science
Karen has been making the internet a better place since 1995. As a Senior Partner at Bond Art + Science, she provides user experience design, information architecture, and content strategy services to clients like Fast Company, The Atlantic, and Fiduciary Trust. Karen is an active participant in the User Experience community and a frequent speaker at conferences, including SIGCHI, the ASIST Information Architecture Summit, and From Business to Buttons. She has also contributed to several Forrester reports on developing personas.

MARKETING: John Muehlbauer, InterContinental Hotels Group
John currently leads a team focused on Product Strategy and Planning in IHG’s Distribution Marketing area. His areas of responsibility include: PMO, User Experience, Brand Experience, and International Experience across all marketing distribution channels. One of his current initiatives is to upgrade the hotel content, including writing and photography, at ~3200 newly repositioned Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express hotels.

VISUAL DESIGN: Brian Ikeda, Philips Design
Brian Ikeda is a Senior Interactive Art Director at Philips Design. He leads a team of talented information architects and visual designers who support all areas of Royal Philips Electronics by creating a variety of interactive products including ecommerce sites, marketing sites, intranet solutions, internal blogs and healthcare applications.

CMS / IT: Ryan Esparza, Content Management Consultant
Ryan Esparza is an enterprise content management consultant with experience in the ecommerce and online media fields. He has overseen multiple CMS implementations for use as web content management tools. Previously Ryan served as an Online Applications Manager at The Home Depot, where he was responsible for homedepot.com’s web content management strategy.

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IUI 2010 (Hong Kong, China)

IUI 2010 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.

IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we are more willing to consider solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding, brain computer interfaces or gesture recognition.

See iuiconf.org for more information.

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Human to Human Interaction with CHI*Atlanta, PDMA, and IxDA

Location: User Insight
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Cost: FREE for Members

Join us for a fun evening of food, drinks, and networking with Atlanta’s best and brightest in user experience, product management, and interaction design.

Good membership standing with local chapters of CHI*Atlanta, PDMA, or IxDA is required.

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CALL FOR CONVERSATION STARTERS!
To spark conversation during the social, we’re going to display slides showcasing each organization as well as good and bad examples of experience design.

We need your help! Send us a PowerPoint slide with your favorite example of good or bad design. Include “Submitted by [first name last name]” and a brief statement about why it’s your favorite.

Email a Conversation Starter

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