June 2005

UPA 2005

June 27 - July 1, 2005 - Montréal Quebec, Canada
UPA 2005 invites lessons or insights related to the conference theme, Bridging Cultures. It is about understanding your own values and how values differ in other cultures or even just in other people within your culture. Once you are able to honor and recognize your differences, you can begin to act upon the similarities and embrace the diversity that multi-cultural companies, teams and projects provide. Build a cultural bridge for your team by recognizing the strength that diversity provides.

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

Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop

Learn how to think like a usability expert in eight hours or less - Presented by Steve Krug (June 3, 2005 - Denver, CO 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: June 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

C&T 2005

2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies - June 13-16, 2005 Milano, Italy
"The relationship between communities and technology is an increasingly important research topic as the number of communities turning to technology for online and face-to-face support grows. The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies conference provides a forum for stimulating and disseminating research about all facets of community and technology support for communities."

Start date: June 13, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

FOMI 2005

1st workshop Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (June 9-10, 2005 - Lake of Garda, Verona, Italy)
"Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distribute systems and knowledge management."

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

IDC 2005

4th International Conference for Interaction Design and Children - June 8-10, 2005 - Boulder, CO, USA

Start date: June 08, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise IA Seminar

Because Users Don't Care About Your Org Chart - Presented by Louis Rosenfeld (June 2, 2005 - Denver, CO 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: June 02, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design Symposium 2005

Digital Game Based Learning: June 2nd, 2005 - Stuttgart Media University, Germany
Digital games are a significant element in the digital media and information society. They influence the development of media technologies as well as interface design, online social interaction and new evaluation approaches. The games industry develops not only products for leisure, but also for work and learning, with many dimensions in the area of social life, knowledge acquisition and application, gaining soft skills and other experiences. Digital games attract researchers from different science fields e.g. social, political, cultural, pedagogical, computer science, etc. The 4th Information Design Symposium is focused on the question of how game based learning environments can motivate and stimulate learners in different situations, and improve learning. It presents didactical and pedagogical issues, as well as actual examples and concrete applications.

Start date: June 02, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink