May 2004

Don't Make Me Think

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less (May 27, 2004 - Seattle, WA, USA)
"In this day-long workshop, I'll do my darndest to teach you how to think about your site's usability problems in a useful way, and how to make low-cost/no-cost testing an everyday part of your design process."

Start date: May 27, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise Information Architecture

Because User Don't Care About Your Org Chart (May 27, 2004 - Seattle, WA, USA)
"Developing a unified web site or intranet for a large, decentralized organization is the Holy Grail for many of today's Internet professionals. This daylong seminar is for managers and web professionals who desperately want to tie together content in a rational, user-centered way, regardless of content ownership issues, cultural hurdles, and turf battles."

Start date: May 27, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

FLAIRS 2004

User Modeling and HCI Approaches in Natural Language Generation (May 17-19, 2004 - Miami Beach, FL, USA)
"The goal of this special track is to bring together people working in user modeling and human-computer interaction with researchers in natural language generation. User modeling is relevant at all levels of the NLG process: content choice, text, sentence, phrase structure, and lexical choice. Aspects of the reader/listener that can influence NLG include affective state, cultural background, educational or experiential level, and age among many others. Although the gap between the HCI and NLG research communities has been wider than that between user modeling and NLG, a key concern of HCI is the role of user models in interface design and evaluation, including cognitive, affective, task-oriented, and sociological models of users. In addition, recent HCI research on intelligent and multimedia interfaces is bridging the gap. Therefore, this special track focuses on research exploring the connection between user modeling - from the perspective of the user modeling community or HCI - and NLG."

Start date: May 17, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Brand Experience and Technical Communication: Expand Your Horizons

Half-day workshop with Dirk Knemeyer (May 13, 2004 - Baltimore, MD, USA)
"Traditionally the domain of marketers and designers, brand experience is the essential communication challenge of the next twenty years. Leading companies understand that their success is based on creating successful experiences that move everyone related to their organization: customers, employees, prospects, partners, and the public at large. However, successfully creating and maintaining those experiences is a complicated strategic challenge. That is where technical communicators come in. Many disciplines are critically involved in creating a successful brand experience, technical communication prominent among them. We must understand not only brand experience, but also the different disciplines adjacent to our own in order to successfully build rich brand experiences. And for those interested in being involved at a strategic business level, only the very best practitioners from the many disciplines that create brand experiences will have the opportunity to ascend and participate."

Start date: May 13, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise Search Summit 2004

Solving the Findability Dilemma for Your Organization (May 11-12, 2004, New York City, USA)
"(...) an intensive 2-day conference that is totally focused on the nuts and bolts of how to plan for, choose, and deploy an internal search capability. The concentrated curriculum at Enterprise Search Summit offers a structured learning opportunity where information managers and IT professionals can understand the strategies and get the know-how they need to make the content that they are acquiring, publishing, organizing, and managing not only searchable but findable."

Start date: May 11, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

ESWS 2004

1st European Semantic Web Symposium (May 10, 2004 - Heraklion, Greece, EU)
"The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's web via the exploitation of machine-processable meta data. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, accompanied with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together an incredibly large network of human knowledge and will complement it with machine processability. Various automated services will help the user achieve goals by accessing and providing information in machine-understandable form. This process may ultimately create extremely knowledgeable systems with various specialized reasoning services systems. Many technologies and methodologies are being developed within Artificial Intelligence, Human Language Technology, Machine Learning, Databases, Software Engineering and Information Systems that can contribute towards the realization of this vision."

Start date: May 10, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

STC's 51st Annual Conference

Navigating The Future of Technical Communication (May 9, 2004 - Baltimore, MD, USA)
"Each year, the STC conference attracts the world's largest gathering of technical communicators with unique educational and networking opportunities. At STC's 51st Annual Conference, you'll learn new tools and techniques, share ideas, network with peers, and preview the latest software and services from dozens of vendors." - Keynote: Ben Shneiderman

Start date: May 09, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Don't Make Me Think

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less (May 7-8, 2004 - Washington, DC, USA)
"In this day-long workshop, I'll do my darndest to teach you how to think about your site's usability problems in a useful way, and how to make low-cost/no-cost testing an everyday part of your design process."

Start date: May 07, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise Information Architecture

Because User Don't Care About Your Org Chart (May 7, 2004 - Washington DC, USA)
"Developing a unified web site or intranet for a large, decentralized organization is the Holy Grail for many of today's Internet professionals. This daylong seminar is for managers and web professionals who desperately want to tie together content in a rational, user-centered way, regardless of content ownership issues, cultural hurdles, and turf battles."

Start date: May 07, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Introductory Usability Evaluation

A one day workshop (Sydney, Australia - May 4, 2004)
"This one day workshop will introduce you to usability evaluation (also known as usability testing), a technique that allows you to improve your systems and sites by regularly testing them with the people who will be actually using them."

Start date: May 04, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

UsabilityWeek 2004

Nielsen Norman Group (San Francisco, USA - May 3-7, 2004)
"Announcing Usability Week 2004, a full week of in-depth, full-day tutorials. Join us this year, when ten years of testing culminate in completely new research that examines the very foundations of Web usability. Celebrate our biannual return to Australia, and our first Scandinavian conference since 2000. Get reinvigorated about the Web, as we help you view the current big picture through fresh eyes."

Start date: May 03, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink