October 2005

Serious Games Summit 2005

Interactive Solutions for Shared Challenges (October 31 - November 1, 2005: Washington DC, USA)
The number of non-entertainment games under development is rapidly increasing. As a result, an entirely new market has emerged: serious games. This second annual gathering promises to answer not just why serious games are important, but how to develop games for non-entertainment purposes.

Start date: October 31, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

about, with, and for 2005

Advancing the practice of user-centered design research (October 28-29, 2005 - Chicago IL, USA)
2005 AWF conference will explore how products and services, arrived at through user-centered design research, can aid in making work more productive, profitable and fun.

Start date: October 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

ASIS&T 2005 Annual Meeting

Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together (October 28 - November 2, 2005: Charlotte NC, USA)
ASIS&T 2005 will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of implementing well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings. A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers, moderated panels, poster sessions and refereed papers will explore this theme.

Start date: October 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architecture & Findability

Seminar during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2005 (October 28, 2005 - Charlotte NC, USA)
Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure, and user experience relies on an information architecture’s foundational systems. This introductory tutorial covers information architecture (IA) from top to bottom, showing participants how to create search and navigation systems that both support and shape users' behavior. Attendees will leave understanding the concepts, best practices, and tools they need to practice IA successfully.

Start date: October 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

IASDR 2005

International Design Congress (October 27-28, 2005 - National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan)
"Asian Design International Conference has undoubtedly become an international conference that is hosted in Asia, with the enormous efforts devoted by the Chinese, Japan and Korean design societies."

Start date: October 27, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

UIST 2005

Eighteenth Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (October 23-26, 2005 - Seattle, Washington USA)
UIST 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.

Start date: October 23, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Architecture

Full Day Totorial by Peter Morville (October 23, 2005 - Boston MA, USA)
Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure, and user experience relies on an information architecture’s foundational systems. This introductory tutorial covers information architecture (IA) from top to bottom, showing participants how to create search and navigation systems that both support and shape users’ behavior. Attendees will leave understanding the concepts, best practices, and tools they need to practice IA successfully.

Start date: October 23, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

InfoVis 2005

IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2005 (October 23-25, 2005 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
"Co-located with Vis 2005."

Start date: October 23, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Evolving Together

Visual Literacy and Learning in the 21st Century (October 21-23, 2005: Lake Tahoe, California USA)
You will have an opportunity to learn from Bob Horn, a Stanford University professor and author of Visual Language; Erik Smith, a Global Business Network scenarios practitioner; David Sibbet, founder of The Grove Consultants International; Mike Mills, Associate Director of Stanford University's Center for Innovation and Learning; Vivian Wright, from Hewlett Packard, who uses graphic recording to record virtual meetings with participants; Mary Robins of Career Balance, who uses graphic recording techniques in one-on-one counseling sessions; Tom Benthin, who will walk us through graphic story mapping; and Lynn Carruthers who has advanced GBN's scenario planning projects through the development of unique graphics. …and we've assembled other fantastic speakers and presentations for building and sustaining your business -- whether you are a graphic recorder, graphic facilitator or a consultant/trainer. We've also made sure to have opportunities for us to network and spend time just talking with one another. We will also have old favorites like the Graphics Jam and the Gallery of Greatness (showcasing everyone's work) ... along with other new and exciting things that you'll really enjoy.

Start date: October 21, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise IA Seminar

Because Users Don't Care About Your Org Chart - Presented by Louis Rosenfeld (October 20, 2005: 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: October 20, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Europe's first information architecture conference

October 15-16, 2005 (Brussels Belgium EU)
'Building our community' is the theme of this inaugural European Summit. No, we are not talking about the EU. We are talking about our professional community - information architects and other people involved in structuring information for electronic media. (...) sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Start date: October 15, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

User Interface 10 Conference

October 10-13, 2005 - Cambridge MA, USA
User Interface 10 is the only conference of its kind in the world - nowhere else will you have the chance to learn, share, and interact with today's top design and usability experts. In 1996, Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers created the User Interface Conference to help designers, information architects and usability professionals tackle their biggest design challenges.

Start date: October 10, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Assests 2005

Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (October 9-12, 2005 - Baltimore, MD USA)
Computer and Information Technologies have redesigned the way modern society operates. In particular, they have identified new avenues to assist individuals with special needs and provided tools and resources to alleviate the traditional barriers encountered by persons with disabilities. For example, speech generation systems have assisted persons with visual disabilities, voice recognition has helped people with motor impairments, multi-modal presentations have been shown to be effective in helping people with learning disabilities understand information. The ASSETS series of conferences is aimed at providing a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research results that address the use of computing and information technologies to help persons with disabilities.

Start date: October 09, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink