World Usability Day: Time to register

November 1, 2006 — triux

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!

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CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2007: Call for Submissions

September 6, 2006 — triux

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

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