IA Summit 2008

Date: April 10 2008 - April 14 2008

Location: Miami, Florida, USA

Website: http://www.iasummit.org

About This Event

The IA Summit is the premier gathering place for those interested in information architecture. The 2007 Summit attracted over 570 attendees with varying degrees of IA experience and from many related fields. Attendees of the summit are passionate about information architecture and user experience and many are actively involved in the community and the summit itself – over 230 of the attendees provided feedback about the event with 93% indicating that they would attend the summit again and 95% indicating they would recommend the summit to a colleague.

The 2008 theme of "Experiencing Information" shifts the focus back to users. A user experience exists only to allow people to "do things" (in the broadest sense ... buying books, sharing photos with friends, looking something up on wikipedia, etc).

What dimensions of information do users typically experience while "doing things", and how can we design information environments that best support these users and activities? Such dimensions might include:

- Information quantity and the experience of choice (e.g. Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice);
- The timing of information encounters and information use (e.g. Jared Spool – "seducible moments");
- The subconscious consumption of information (e.g. BJ Fogg – Persuasive Technology);
- Rapid or intuitive processing of information (e.g. Malcolm Gladwell – Blink);
- The social and participatory aspects of information and information communities (e.g. David Weinberger's work);
- The wide range of information media: the Web, virtual worlds, ubiquitous computing, mobile technology, physical spaces (e.g. Joshua Prince-Ramus' and Michael Bierut's work)

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ia, information architecture, summit, user experience, ux