There is a student SIGGRAPH chapter at Bowling Green State University. Also known as the Computer Arts Club, it looks like it was started in 2006.
This fall a presentation by Scott McCloud is being planned. Once I learn more I will add his talk to the calendar.
| October 19, 2008 | to | October 22, 2008 |
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.
| September 16, 2008 | to | September 17, 2008 |
The 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, SOFTVIS’08, is the premiere forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, visualization, and computer science education) to present original research on software visualization.
Topics of interest include:
It will be co-Located with IEEE VL/HCC’08 and Diagrams’08.
| April 9, 2008 | to | April 13, 2008 |
Laval Virtual is the top trade fair in Europe for virtual reality. Laval Virtual 2008 also includes VRIC 2008, the 10th Virtual Reality International Conference (and a symposium on 3D interaction).
| December 10, 2008 | to | December 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.
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Bob Jacobson, design consultant and editor of the anthology Information Design (MIT Press, 1999), is on a roll these days. Today the focus of his provocative commentary is the DUX 2007 conference, which he thinks is “ideologically discomforting” and “fundamentally off the mark”.
“The DUX 2007 conference begins today in Chicago. Thematically, content-wise, and in terms of approach, this is the consummate conference on cutting-edge design. The speakers are top-notch, too. But ideologically, DUX is discomforting. For all its virtues, DUX embodies a set of values that, while commendable, are incomplete and off-kilter. It’s user-centric, not human-centric. And experience, if it is anything, is human.”Go Bob, I think you are absolutely right. Read full story |
| March 26, 2008 | to | March 28, 2008 |
The Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium is sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI and is held every 2 years. ETRA 08 will be March 26-28, 2008 in Savannah, GA.
The symposium is focused on all aspects of eye movement research across a wide range of disciplines. The goal of ETRA is to bring together computer scientists, engineers and behavioral scientists in support of a common vision of enhancing eye tracking research and applications. Themes of this symposium:
| August 11, 2008 | to | August 15, 2008 |
The 35th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - SIGGRAPH 2008.
The date and location for DUX 2007 were just made public: November 5-7, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This is the 3rd Conference on designing for user experience. I missed the first DUX in 2003, attended the second in 2005.
We are planning some UXnet meetings in conjunction with the conference - so I am definitely going. The challenge will be to get back home for World Usability Day on November 8th. Being in Chicago will help.
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A great example of the benefits of professional association collaboration is the Designing for User eXperience conference, the second of which (DUX 2005) will be taking place 3-5 November at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA USA. AIGA, ACM SIGGRAPH, and ACM SIGCHI have joined forces again to develop what many consider to be the premier conference for user experience practitioners.
Supporting AIGA, SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI, and DUX 2005 are several cooperating societies: IxDG, IIID, UPA, STC, AIS SIGHCI, HFES, IDSA, and IAI. Plus, BayDUX, the local presence of UXnet in the San Francisco Bay Area, is sponsoring the conference’s opening plenary reception, in part in honor of World Usability Day which was scheduled to coincide with the opening day of the conference.
Congratulations to all involved in helping make this event reflect a cross-section of the user experience professional community.
