October 2004

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Steve Krug: October 29, 2004 - Chicago, IL 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." - Also: Sep. 8, 2004 (New York, NY) - Nov. 9, 2004 (San Jose, CA)

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Enterprise Information Architecture Seminar

Louis Rosenfeld: October 28, 2004 - Chicago, IL 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." - Also: Sep. 7, 2004 (New York, NY) - Nov. 8, 2004 (San Jose, CA) - Nov. 29, 2004 (London, UK)

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Information Architecture & Findability

Peter Morville's Road Show (October 25, 2004 - San Francisco, CA, USA)
"Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure. User experience relies on the foundation systems of information architecture. And, the biggest problem on today's web sites and intranets is findability. This new full-day seminar from Peter Morville covers information architecture from top to bottom, explaining how search and navigation systems can be designed to support and shape user behavior."

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ICMI 2004

International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (Penn State University, PA USA - October 13-15, 2004)
"Multimodal interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving spoken language understanding, natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, experimental psychology, etc. They aim at efficient, convenient and natural interaction and communication between computers and human users. Multimodal interfaces will ultimately enable users to interact with computers using everyday skills."

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LISA Forum Europe

Automating Global Business Processes: October 11-14, 2004 - Holiday Inn Disney, Marne-la-Vallee, France
"The Localization Industry Standards Association Forum Europe will go beyond the usual discourse about multilingual content management challenges and solutions to address the practicality of international products delivery, applications, and costs as well as how a larger Europe and companies wanting access to its markets can best manage business practices like emerging collaborative systems, outsourcing management, and open standards deployment."

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

UI 9 Conference: Making It Better

Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers created User Interface 9 for advanced practitioners (October 11-14, 2004 - Cambridge, MA, USA)
"Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers created User Interface 9 for advanced practitioners - web designers, information architects, and usability professionals who need to tackle the biggest design and usability challenges. This year's conference is all about Making It Better - providing you with the knowledge and skills to get dramatic improvements out of every project."

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Vis2004

Visualization 2004 (October 10-15, 2004 - Austin, TX, USA)
"Vis2004 is the premier forum for visualization advances in science and engineering for academia, government, and industry. This event brings together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in techniques, tools, and technology. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research and joining us in beautiful Austin, Texas, nestled among the rolling hills and lakes of the hill country. Co-located with InfoVis 2004 and VolVis 2004."

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

SIGDOC 2004

The Engineering of Quality Documentation (October 10-13, 2004 - Memphis TN, USA)
"The engineering of quality documentation is a cross-disciplinary challenge affecting all team members, including technical writers, graphic artists, software developers, usability experts, and project managers. As the field of documentation matures, we would like to consider the implications of making design a systematic process of specification, creation, management, and evolution -- in short, an engineering approach."

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The Future of Information Architecture, A Retreat

Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA - October 1-3, 2004
"This weekend retreat is an opportunity for IAs from around the globe to come together in an informal and beautiful setting to discuss and share ideas about the future of Information Architecture. Where are we heading? What is the career path for an IA? What is on the horizon for the next 5 years and how do we plan to approach it?"

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