Free Flex, Air and Coldfusion Conference

The Triangle Area ColdFusion Users Group (TACFUG) is planning a conference called CFinNC for October 17-18, 2009 on Centennial Campus at NC State University. The topics will be ColdFusion, Flex/Flash, AIR and miscellaneous other topics. The presenters will range from triangle speakers along with presenters from all over the US. Registration for this conference is FREE for attendees.

If you are interested in learning more about Flex or other Adobe technologies such as AIR and Coldfusion this is a great opportunity to receive FREE training. For more information or to register please visit: http://cfinnc.com/

TriUPA IA Summit 2009 Recap

This year marked the 10th anniversary of the annual IA Summit conference, and we were lucky enough to have six local colleagues (including myself) make it out to Memphis, TN for the event. In an effort to bring the Summit back to the community, we held a recap event last Thursday. We shared our favorite presentations, and some of the larger themes we noticed throughout the event.

Conference: Voices That Matter–Web Design Conference

Registration is now open for The Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference in Nashville!

Check out the great lineup of speakers and sessions.  TriUPA members can use the User Group Discount Code, WD2MAL5 to receive $200 off the Core Conference. If you register before May 2, you’ll get the Early Bird price of $1095, in addition to the user group discount of $200, bringing your price to $895.

Workshop on Usable IT Security Management (USM ’08)

Workshop on Usable IT Security Management (USM ’08)

Date: July 23, 2008

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The workshop is part of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)

USM’08 solicits short research and position papers from academia and industry about all aspects of IT security management usability. The workshop will provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to discuss this fascinating and important topic. Those interested in participating in the workshop should submit a research or position paper of up to six pages, along with a cover letter describing their research interests, experience, and background in the area of usable IT security management.

Important Dates:

• Position papers deadline: April 13
• Notification of acceptance: May 11
• Camera ready final versions of the papers due: June 6
• Workshop: July 23

Workshop organizers: Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov (UBC) &  John Karat (IBM)

For full call for papers and other details, visit http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2008/usm.html

Reminder: Good Experience Live Conference

Gel 2007, in New York City, April 19 – 20.  It’s one of the most acclaimed conferences around, with an array of innovative speakers that inform, but go way beyond, mainstream user experience work.  Register by March 20 for the best rate.

Gel 2007

Good Experience Live (Gel)

Gel (“Good Experience Live”) is a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms — in business, art, society, technology, and life.

Gel 2007 will be held:

Thursday-Friday, April 19-20, 2007

The Equitable Theater (7th at 51st/52nd)

New York City

Register by December 12th for the best price.

World Usability Day: Time to register

Register for World Usability Day

Announcing the 2006 World Usability Day celebration in the Triangle! Join UX professionals from around the Triangle area for an Interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech, food, drink, and fun!

RSVP today!

When: November 14th, 2006 from 6PM to 9PM

Where: GlaxoSmithKline’s Ruvane Auditorium

Keynote: Graeme Boddy, VP of Information Services Business Applications of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina

Interactionary Design Competition
We held a student competition last year and it was a huge success! This year we’re expanding the competition to include two professional teams competing against each other and two student teams. Plus, each team will have only 10 minutes (Last year it was 20!) to design and present their solution to the problem.

Professional Competition: IBM vs. TBA

IBM Team

• Nicole S. Robbins – User Experience Design, IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
• David Kovach – Senior User Experience Designer, IBM developerWorks
• Lisa M. Salcedo Eichorn – IBM Software Group, WPLC – Lotus Product Design
• Ryan L. Urquhart – IBM Software Group, Tivoli, Tivoli User Experience Engineer

Student Competition: UNC vs. NC State

UNC Team

• Brian Landau
• Christie McDaniel
• Noel Fiser
• Lisa Thursby

NC State Team
TBA

RSVP today!

Design Expo Raleigh 2006

Design Expo Raleigh 2006 will be a two week celebration of the incredible designers who call the Triangle home and all the innovative work being created here. The theme for this year’s inaugural event is “Hidden Gems: Great Design in Our Own Backyard.” We have a powerful and wonderful design community – it’s time for the rest of the world to know about it.

The purpose of Design Expo Raleigh is to present great design to the public and to give designers, both professionals and students, a forum to display and discuss their work. A unique showcase of applied arts coming together as a whole, Design Expo Raleigh promotes broader awareness of many different design disciplines and creates an opportunity for local designers to network with each other, students, and the public. Among the diverse applied arts to be represented at Design Expo Raleigh ’06 are Animation, Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Textile/Fashion Design.

When:
October 20 – November 4

Where:
Heilig-Levine Building
137 S. Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27601

The main exhibition will be at the Heilig Levine Building. Other events will take place in other locations around Raleigh and the Triangle. Please see the calendar of events for information about specific events.

Who will attend:
Events are open to the public. We encourage professionals and all students (university, college, high school, middle school, etc.) and all of those interested in design to participate.

CED’s Tech 2006

A one-day local conference with an interesting program:

CED’s Tech 2006 will explore the future of emerging and converging technologies that are reshaping today’s hottest industries. Now in its 16th year, Tech 2006 will focus on the latest cutting-edge markets and global opportunities in a variety of technology sectors.

Using a range of session formats – from nationally respected keynotes to smaller, interactive conversations – Tech 2006 will incite conversations about technologies and products that will change the way we live, communicate, and think. Tech 2006 will showcase innovative technologies from entrepreneurial companies, university groups, corporations and research institutions; and unite the creators of exciting, novel technologies with the industry’s top business influencers and creators.

CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007: Call for Submissions

CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007
Seeding Creativity: Tools, Media, and Environments

June 13-15, 2007, Washington DC, USA
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/

The Creativity & Cognition Conference series began in 1993 and has evolved into a lively multidisciplinary event combining research and practice. Rigorous research is expanding as theoretic foundations are emerging and goals become more well-defined. Successful practice manifests itself in a growing array of creativity support tools for discovery and composition by software and other engineers, diverse scientists, product and graphic designers, architects, new media artists, musicians, educators, students, and many others.

Conference Theme
The focus of CC2007 is on cultivating and sustaining creativity: understanding how to design and evaluate computational support tools, digital media, and sociotechnical environments that not only empower our creative processes and abilities, but that also encourage and nurture creative mindsets and lifestyles.
Topics appropriate for submissions include, but are not limited to:

* Principles for interface, interaction & software design
* Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
* In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses
* Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice
* Educational and training methods to encourage creativity with novel interfaces
* Social mechanisms in support of creative communities and collaboratories
* Emerging technologies, media, and approaches in the arts and creative practices
* Transdisciplinary methods and collaboration models