September 2007

ASIS&T Euro IA Summit

Translating Information Architecture (September 21-22, 2007 - Barcelona, Spain)
EuroIA invites your participation to this premier European event on Information Architecture. This year we will explore the theme of 'Translating Information Architecture' so if you feel you have a topic related to translating IA, whether between languages, within our profession, to our clients, transforming ideas into practical solutions, or reaching out to other electronic and physical spaces, please send it in.

Start date: September 21, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

SocioTech-ID 2007 Workshop

New Sociotechnical Insights in Interaction Design 2007 (September 10-11, 2007 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Interaction design is becoming more challenging because of advances in technology – pervasive, ubiquitous, multimodal and adaptive – are changing the nature of interaction. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for HCI practitioners and specialists interested in knowledge from the social sciences to discuss how sociotechnical insights can best be used to inform interactive design and how social methods and theories can fit into changing patterns of development and participatory design. Both long papers and short papers submissions are invited, addressing key aspects of current research and practical case studies. Diverse areas of the social sciences explore and conceptualize the relation between people, society and technology under the rubric of ‘sociotechnical’, which can bring interesting insights into interaction design. While organizational studies of technology adoption have a well defined conceptual framework known as sociotechnical systems theory with established principles, the situation is not the same for interaction design research. The latter includes examples that give diverse uses to the term ‘sociotechnical’ when involving social methods and theories. While perspectives like ethnography, ethnomethodology and activity theory have had a clear impact in the design of interactive systems, the potential contribution of other social science perspectives has not become so clear and uniform despite the increased development of the pervasive and social proxy – mediating and mediated -- characters of interactive systems. This workshop will bring together good examples of research in interaction design that refer to the term ‘sociotechnical’. The challenge is to achieve some level of ‘translation’ despite differences between disciplines whose main interest is understanding social phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is the design of interactive systems. It is hoped the workshop will identify opportunities for a socio-technical knowledge framework in interaction design.

Start date: September 10, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Hypertext 2007

Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (September 10-12, 2007 - Manchester, UK EU)
Hypertext and hypermedia involve a diverse range of technologies that support structured knowledge. The Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia is operating under the banner 'Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference' to reflect that although there is a wide range of research areas within the community, all have a common interest in hypertext and hypermedia. Hypertext 2007 will therefore have five areas of hypertext, with the aim of bringing together a vast range of people and interests to a single venue.

Start date: September 10, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

FIND'07

Int'l Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search (September 3-7, 2007 - Regensburg, Germany EU)
Dynamic taxonomies work on multidimensional taxonomies (usually organized by facets) and provide a single, coherent visual framework in which users can focus on one or more concepts in the taxonomy, and immediately see a conceptual summary of their focus, in the form of a reduced taxonomy derived from the original one by pruning unrelated concepts. Concepts in the reduced taxonomy can be used to set additional, dependent foci and users iterate in a guided yet unconstrained way until they reach a result set sufficiently small for manual inspection.

Start date: September 03, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink