Philadelphia USA 2006-09-15 Refreshments & Networking: 6-6:30pm – Food and beverages will be provided. Presentation: 6:30pm – 8ish Where: GSI Commerce Headquarters 935 First Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19406 Directions: http://gsicommerce.com/contactus/directions.jsp Meeting Summary: This is the first ever joint PHICHI & AIGA meeting! As user experience professionals, we always need to interface and collaborate with graphic artists and designers. At times, we all know that this can be difficult. There is a lot that both professions can learn from each other in order to work better together. This is why PHICHI has decided to hold a joint meeting with the local chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). We’ll take a closer look at Avenue A | Razorfish and GSI Commerce. For this first joint meeting, we decided to give members of both organizations a closer look at the User-Centered Design process of two local agencies, Avenue A | Razorfish and GSI Commerce. Each company will explain their design process from start to finish and show sample deliverables of their work. You will get to see how their design and user experience teams work together. Registration is free! Please register for this meeting at: http://philadelphia.aiga.org/event_registration-reg.html ---------------------------- About AIGA: http://philadelphia.aiga.org/about.html ---------------------------- About PHICHI: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/PhiCHI/index.html ---------------------------- Would you like to be notified of all upcoming PHICHI events? Please join our yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/join PHICHI meetings are ALWAYS open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the ACM is NOT required. 35 PA As UX pros, we always collaborate w/ graphic artists & designers. At times, we all know that this can be difficult. There is a lot that we can learn from each other in order to work better together. 2006-09-14 false http://philadelphia.aiga.org/event_registration-reg.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/35 aiga, chi, design, graphic design, phichi, ux Oslo Norway 2006-10-19 NordiCHI is the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research. NordiCHI is the meeting place for researchers from academia and industry, designers, practitioners, educators and others from a broad range of traditions and communities. NordiCHI is a biannual conference which has earlier been held in Stockholm (2000), Ã…rhus (2002) and Tampere (2004). 58 Norway NordiCHI is the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research. 2006-10-14 false http://nordichi.net.dynamicweb.dk/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/58 chi, conference, nordchi, norway, oslo, technology, ubicomp, usability, userexperience, ux, uxnet Philadelphia USA 2006-10-18 When: Refreshments & Networking: 6-6:30pm Presentation: 6:30pm – 8ish Where: UPenn Campus - exact room TBD Summary: Come and get a behind the scenes look into the actual process used to solve design problems behind the creation of... ~QVC Active - Mike Madaio, Chief Internet Architect, QVC.com The first US real-time two-way interactive TV shopping service. Viewers use their remote control to make purchases in a real-time environment, just as the product is being showcased on TV. ~Russound UNO-TSV Smart Color Touchscreen - Kyle Pero, Founding Principal, Usable Interface A touchscreen device that controls a multiroom entertainment system, lighting and climate control. Users can easily decide what music they’d like to play and what mood they want to set in different rooms in their home. ~In-Stadium seat-based ECommerce Platform - Bill Bulman, Partner, MessageFirst A kiosk-based Rich Internet Application that allows sports fans to purchase concessions and merchandise from their seats. Fans feel closer to their team, while the team learns important consumer data from their fans. Each of these products are very different, but some of the same user-centered design methods were used in their creation (i.e. contextual inquiries, paper prototyping, user testing, etc). Attendees will learn which methods were used, as well as, why and how they were implemented. Research findings, insights, and lessons learned will all be shared. ---------------------------- About PHICHI: PHICHI is the Philadelphia region's chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI - http://sigchi.org/). Would you like to be notified of all upcoming PHICHI events? Please join our yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/join PHICHI meetings are ALWAYS open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the ACM is NOT required. Hope to see you all there! 80 PA Get a behind the scenes look into the actual process used to solve design problems behind the creation of three very different offline products. 2006-10-17 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/80 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/80/logo.jpg case study, chi, contextual inquiry, ia, paper prototyping, product design, user testing, ux Philadelphia USA 2007-01-26 Location: Levine 307, UPenn Campus 3301 Walnut, Philadelphia PA DIRECTIONS: Here is a map of the building: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=407 Sign up now! If you would like to participate, please RSVP now to phillychi@gmail.com. Why now? We may need to cap attendance. What's a "design slam"? During the meeting, participants will be teamed and introduced to a full-fledged hypothetical project, including appropriate client-side deliverables. They'll then have an opportunity to interview key players on the client's team. The session will conclude with proposal presentations from each of the groups to the "clients" and the assembled audience. Then the "clients" team will choose a winner. Members of the winning team will receive a plethora of praise from your peers and an award. What's in it for me? This is a chance for interested IAs, designers, usability practitioners, developers and marketing professionals to get their hands dirty working side by side with colleagues as they tackle tough business problems in a fun and sometimes crazy environment. Knowledge transfer, technique sharing, and a social atmosphere makes this session stand out from the garden-variety "lecture-and-Powerpoint" presentation. Those that want to participate need to be at the meeting by 6:15pm at the latest. The client team will be introducing the design challenge promptly at 6:25. If you do not want to participate due to not being able to get to the meeting on-time or a severe case of social phobia, fear not! We would like to have an audience during this session to play the role of users, and help choose the winning team. This idea is shamelessly stolen (with permission) from the IA Summit's IA Slam. For more information about the IA Slam, visit http://www.e-reiss.com/Seminars.aspx. 156 PA Join in the Philadelphia region's first annual Design Slam. Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a real-world problem. Awards given to the victors! 2007-01-25 false http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/156 chi, delaware, design, design competition, design slam, ia, information architecture, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi King of Prussia USA 2007-02-22 Time: 6 - 8 pm Location: GSI Commerce, Inc., 935 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming at phillyCHI@gmail.com Interest in content user-assigned tags is one of the big new stories on the Web. But content tagging is not a new story. What's new about Web 2.0 is that end users are doing the tagging instead of librarians, and the results are being shown almost instantly on websites like flickr, del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and Technorati.Librarians have long contended that end users cannot usefully tag content because they are not trained in how to do indexing. More correctly, end users cannot tag content the way librarians tag content. But this begs the question about what kind of tagging is useful. Joseph will discuss the usefulness to be found in tagging as it relates to librarians and usability professionals, the Semantic Web, and document and content management practices. Joseph Busch is the Founder and a Principal of Taxonomy Strategies. Joseph is an authority in the field of information science, a past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. He is a frequent speaker on metadata, taxonomy, indexing, classification research, information retrieval, and content management. Read more about Joseph at Taxonomy Strategies. 166 PA phillyCHI welcomes Joseph A. Busch of Taxonomy Strategies LLC as he speaks on the importance of tagging to librarians, usability practitioners and content management professionals. 2007-02-21 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/166 chi, delaware, design, folksonomy, ia, indexing, information architecture, joseph busch, librarians, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, semantic web, tagging, taxonomy, taxonomy strategies, web 20 Bellevue USA 2007-04-10 Hayley Nichols, Program Manager at Filter Studios, is the featured speaker at this free meeting of UX professionals. Registration is NOT required. Networking starts at 6 pm, followed by the presentation at 7 pm Location: Filter/Talent offices in Bellevue, 505 106th Ave. NE, Suite 200. Filter/Talent will validate parking in their lot. For directions, see: http://www.filtertalent.com/contactus/bellevue.asp 199 WA “Icons 101” is the topic when Puget Sound SIGCHI meets Thursday, April 26, for its monthly professional meeting. 2007-04-09 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/199 chi, design, humancomputer interaction, user experience, usercentered design Ottawa Canada 2007-04-14 This workshop is geared towards a broad audience including government employees, product managers, business strategists, CTOs, CIOs, marketing specialists, communication experts, technology experts and human-computer interaction specialists, but especially those who are web designers. In the first half of the day Peter Merholz and Maggie Fox address the topic of Web 2.0 as a social media. They will cover the business rational for Web 2.0 development and provide motivation for development in this area. Many case studies will be reviewed. In the second half of the day Mike Atyeo addresses more detailed issues such as designing and testing Web 2.0 applications, particularly highly interactive AJAX applications. The important issue of accessibility will be addressed by Derek Featherstone, an expert in this particular field. The more structured part of the workshop will finish with a panel of our presenters. This will be an opportunity for participants to ask any final questions and for presenters to deliver key take-home messages. Following the panel session, attendees who are interested will then participate in an informal "unconference". This will be an opportunity for attendees to talk some more with the presenters and with each other and unwind. The aim is for all attendees to leave the day with a clearer idea of how social media can benefit their organizations and to know how to make their great ideas become a reality. 182 Canada Web 2.0 is impacting all areas of our interaction from the details of using AJAX widgets, to collective decision-making and organization, privacy, and, especially social networking. 2007-04-13 false http://capchi.org/workshop http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/182 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/182/logo_thehumanweb_sm.gif ajax, canada, chi, derek featherstone, maggie fox, mike atyeo, ottawa, peter merholz, unconference, usability, web 20, workshop Philadelphia USA 2007-08-24 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm * Meet & greet from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm * Location: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, University of Pennsylvania 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=140 RSVP (not necessary, but nice): phillychi@gmail.com Most folks know that taxonomy has something to do with organizing things. Fewer folks know, however, that taxonomy is the practice of classification, which originally began as a science devoted to the classification of living organisms. And that over time, taxonomy has become known as the classification of just about anything and everything. Even fewer get down into the weeds and do the work that goes beyond simple classification that makes today’s information systems work: meta data, facets, controlled vocabulary, thesauri, synonym maps, ontologies, tagging… What’s troubling about this divide between those that know about taxonomy and those that don’t is the very importance of taxonomy. For lots of designers & developers, the applications, websites, and interactive products they spend their waking hours creating could not function without well-structured, carefully crafted information structures. This month’s PhillyCHI meeting will explore in practical and tangible terms the specific ways taxonomy is important to the work we do. We will discuss the design, implementation, and governance of taxonomies by examining four real-world case studies: * a user-centric catalog for a large e-commerce site and its impact on the user experience * a content-heavy non-profit information site * a system processing data through controlled vocabularies and thesauri * a consumer-driven search engine Plenty of time will be reserved at the end of the meeting for discussion, so bring your tough questions! Panel Participants Dave Cooksey, GSI Commerce, Inc Emily Culbertson, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation John Ferrara, Vanguard Julia Remick, Yellow Book USA 293 PA For this month’s PhillyCHI meeting, we’ve assembled a panel to discuss a foundational topic: taxonomy. 2007-08-23 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/293 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/293/phillyCHI-logo.gif chi, delaware, design, ia, information architecture, new jersey, nj, philadelphia, philly, phillychi, taxonomy Philadelphia USA 2007-09-21 Time: 6 - 8 pm Location: Kildare's Pub Address: 4417 Main Street, Manayunk, PA 19127 Phone: 215-482-7242 Directions: http://www.kildarespub.com/ma_directions.htm RSVP (not necessary, but nice): phillychi@gmail.com About Our Sponsor Aquent is the world's largest marketing and creative staffing company, with 70 offices in 18 countries. We've spent the past 20 years championing the cause of freelance marketing and creative professionals. Like you, we're marketing and creative experts, so we understand the challenges you face. Inflexible schedules. Inconsistent workflow. Impossible clients. Billing hassles. As part of the Aquent Talent Network you not only gain access to assignments at the world's best companies, you now have access to our comprehensive support system to help you manage all your business challenges on your terms. 320 PA Please join us as the PhillyCHI happy hour resumes after the summer lull. Swing by, have a drink, and see what fellow PhillyCHI members have been up. 2007-09-20 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/320 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/320/phillyCHI-logo.gif acm, chi, happy hour, philadelphia, phillychi, sigchi, social Philadelphia USA 2007-10-31 Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM * Refreshments & socializing from 6:00PM – 6:30PM * Location: Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, University of Pennsylvania Address: 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map: http://tinyurl.com/34g86c Please RSVP: phillyCHI@gmail.com ABOUT THE PRESENTATION In this presentation, Dennis will share some of his adventures using anthropological tools to inform Information Architecture including some fascinating insights uncovered from raiding people's glove boxes, which directly drove the experience design of the Ford vehicles owners' website. The presentation will help attendees begin to look at Web Design through an anthropological lens, shedding new light on old design problems. Dennis will also discuss some of the cutting edge ideas and methodologies recently presented at the EPIC2007, the premier international event for practitioners of ethnographic work in industry (not academic). In addition, he will speculate as to what might be some near-term trends we all should take note of. ABOUT THE PRESENTER Mr. Schleicher is a Senior Information Architect at E.magination.com in Baltimore Maryland. He has a background in business and industrial anthropology and has been working awhile in the field of information technology and culture. He later moved into Information Architecture and found, to his surprise, that many anthropological tools and skills were very useful to IA and Web design. http://www.dennisschleicher.com ABOUT OUR SPONSOR Messagefirst, Inc. Messagefirst is Philadelphia-based design research consulting firm. We work with companies to help them increase revenues, decrease costs, and ultimately improve the user experience of their products or services. Our goal-oriented data-driven design process improves performance and creates compelling experiences that solve business problems in a beautiful way. http://www.messagefirst.com. 353 PA Dennis Schleicher & the Raiders of the Lost Glove Box: How Anthropology and Web Design Go Together 2007-10-30 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/353 acm, anthropology, chi, dennis schleicher, design, hci, information architecture, messagefirst, phillychi, sigcgi, web design Philadelphia USA 2007-11-15 * Note: this PhillyCHI social event is one day earlier than the standing third Thursday of the month. * Event: PhillyCHI | CreativeConnects Joint Happy Hour Time: 5:30PM - 8PM Place: Alfa Bar 1709 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 19103 Map: http://tinyurl.com/29dtv5 No RSVP Required. For our November social event, PhillyCHI will join the CreativeConnects Happy Hour at Alfa Bar from 5:30PM to 8PM. CreativeConnects is a free monthly social event, hosted by The BOSS Group for creative, marketing, communications, advertising and web professionals. Come network with colleagues, meet new people, keep up with industry news and get leads on jobs and business opportunities. Light appetizers and one free drink will be provided courtesy of The BOSS Group. About the BOSS Group The BOSS Group is, literally, where talent and opportunity meet. It's where creative, marketing and web professionals come to find jobs and assignments, resources and industry connections, and where clients find the talent that will help them succeed. We're committed to meeting the employment needs of employers and individuals with equal success. Our unparalleled creative staffing expertise and close partnerships with our talent and clients alike offer a true competitive advantage. The BOSS Group is a certified Women's Business Enterprise and a 2007 and 2006 Best Place To Work. 356 PA For our November social event, PhillyCHI will join the CreativeConnects Happy Hour at Alfa Bar from 5:30PM to 8PM. 2007-11-14 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/356 acm, boss group, chi, creativeconnects, creatives, design, hci, information architecture, phillychi, sigcgi Philadelphia USA 2007-11-29 * Refreshments will be served from 6 – 6:30PM * Location: Bossone Center, Drexel University 31st & Market Streets Philadelphia, PA 19103 Map: http://www.drexel.edu/em/directions/map_uc.pdf RSVP: phillyCHI@gmail.com Please join PhillyCHI and the iSchool at Drexel University for a panel discussion on the different perspectives of how failure can inform design. The iSchool has gathered a panel of researchers and practitioners to discuss in theoretical and practical terms what and how we can learn from failure in the design process. The panel will begin with a brief introduction of the topic by the moderator, Dr. Michael Atwood. Panelists will then present brief statements relating their background and experience on the topic. The remainder of the session will be a moderated discussion among the panelists and the audience. THE MODERATOR Michael Atwood, PhD Associate Dean for Academic Affairs/Research, The iSchool at Drexel University THE PANELISTS Liza Potts, PhD Director of Human Factors, Electronic Ink Tom Hewett, PhD Professor of Psychology and Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University Mathieu Turpault Senior Designer, Bresslergroup 362 PA Please join PhillyCHI and the iSchool at Drexel University for a panel discussion on the different perspectives of how failure can inform design. 2007-11-28 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/362 acm, chi, design, drexel university, failure, hci, ischool, philadelphia, phillychi, sigcgi Philadelphia USA 2007-12-14 Please join us at the annual PhillyCHI holiday party as we celebrate this past year and toast the new. We have reserved a private room at 707, a bright new restaurant and lounge in Center City. There will be passed hors d’oeuvre, open bar, and door prizes. The newly elected officers for 2008 will be announced. So come by and meet next year’s leadership team. Time: 6 - 8PM Location: 707 Address: 707 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Website: http://www.707restaurant.com/ Map: http://tinyurl.com/37nkze RSVP: phillychi@gmail.com This year’s sponsors: Avenue A | Razorfish - www.avenuea-razorfish.com Digitas Health - http://www.digitashealth.com/ Electronic Ink - http://electronicink.com/ Empathy Lab - http://empathylab.com/ GSI Commerce - http://gsicommerce.com. 367 PA Please join us for the annual PhillyCHI holiday party as we celebrate this past year and toast the new. We'll have food, drinks, & door prizes. RSVP REQUIRED by December 6, 2007. 2007-12-13 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/367 acm, avenue a razorfish, chi, digitas health, electronic ink, empathy lab, gsi, hci, holiday, philadelphia, phillychi, sigcgi, social Atlanta USA 2008-10-23 Tired of watching your designs become filled with bad content? Ever run into confusion over who "owns" content? Feel like no one is around to make content as well-crafted as your designs? Or do you create great content but feel it isn't appreciated or supported? Then join us for this exciting panel event including HowStuffWorks, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Brain Traffic. Bad content is a losing situation for users / customers and businesses alike. But creating good content is hard. This panel will explore the growing discipline of content strategy, including its business and user experience value. Conal Byrne, Editor-in-Chief, HowStuffWorks David Forbes, Senior Director of IT Strategy, AT&T Mobility Richard Sheffield, Managing Editor, UPS and author of The Web Content Strategist's Bible Kristina Halvorson, President, Brain Traffic Colleen Jones (Moderator), UX Consultant 540 GA Tired of watching your designs become filled with bad content? Then join us for this CHI*Atlanta event including HowStuffWorks, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Brain Traffic. 2008-10-22 false http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/KGELPDNQIBHTVIEJXLOC/CHIA-October http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/540 atlanta, chi, computer human interaction, content strategy, user experience Philadelphia USA 2008-10-23 Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm * Please be aware that in order to enter Huntsman Hall, you MUST arrive by 6:30pm. * Location: Huntsman Hall, Room 255, University of Pennsylvania 3730 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/campus/philadelphia/visiting.cfm RSVP: phillyCHI@gmail.com (please RSVP by Monday, October 20, 2008) ----- THE DISCUSSION As design professionals, we strive to create great products and great experiences, both physical and virtual, for the general public or niche markets. But many times -- the cynic would say most of the time -- we miss the mark. The world is full of things that are difficult and frustrating to use. And that's because designers make assumptions about how users think and do things. Great design is user-centric design. User-centered design (UCD) is an approach that places the user at the center of the design process from the beginning. By understanding real people's needs and behaviors during the conception and refinement of a design, we can ensure that a new product succeeds. This discussion will include perspectives on user-centered design from professionals who create experiences in the fields of architecture, interactive design, and product design. Each panelist will present examples and strategies relevant to practitioners of user-centric design in any discipline. Those interested in architecture, graphic design, human factors, information architecture, interaction design, product design, usability, and user experience will find the discussion highly informative and challenging. THE PANELISTS Steve Cleff, Account Planner, Avenue A | Razorfish Philadelphia Zoey Juhng, Design Director, Bressler Group Michael Summers, Senior Director, Usability, gsi interactive Maria Keares Wyant, RA, Wyant Architecture THE MODERATOR Dave Cooksey, PhillyCHI Chair 553 PA Join us as our panelists discuss why great design isn't just about design. It's about people. 2008-10-22 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/553 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/553/PhillyCHI_logo_small.png acm, architecture, chi, design, designphiladelphia, panel, philadelphia, phillychi, sigchi, usercentered design King of Prussia USA 2009-06-19 Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 Location: Kildare’s Irish Pub Address: 826 Dekalb Pike, King of Prussia, PA19406 Phone: 610-337-4772 Website: http://www.kildarespub.com/main.php RSVP: phillychi@gmail.com (nice, but not necessary) About PhillyCHI PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability, and other related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds monthly meetings and socials to network and discuss current topics in HCI. For more information visit: http://phillychi.acm.org/. 813 PA Come celebrate the beginning of summer with PhillyCHI in the Western 'burbs. Stop by for a pint and conversation. All PhillyCHI events are free and open to the public, so feel free to invite a friend! 2009-06-18 false http://phillychi.acm.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/813 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/813/phillychi_logo_200x50.png acm, chi, design, happy hour, hci, ia, information architecture, networking, phillychi, sigchi, social, user experience, ux Seattle USA 2010-10-04 InfoCamp is an unconference for the information community. It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which the agenda is created during the event -- so anyone who attends can present! Join us at InfoCamp Seattle 2010 for an exciting weekend of talking & learning about: - user experience - information architecture - user-centered design - interaction design - library & information science - online search - information management - informatics - anything relating to the intersections of information, people and/or technology A keynote from an invited speaker will kick off each day before we leap into multiple tracks of participant-led sessions & discussions. We'll provide a light breakfast, coffee, lunch, and snacks to keep the energy up. InfoCamp Seattle 2010 will be on October 2 and 3 at Seattle University. See you there! Want to learn more? Check out: - seattle.infocamp.org - wiki.infocamp.org 1495 WA An unconference for the information community! 2010-10-02 false http://seattle.infocamp.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1495 cataloging, chi, hci, humancomputer interaction, ia, informatics, information architecture, information management, information science, interaction design, ixd, librarian, librarians, librarianship, libraries, library, library and information science, lis, metadata, mlis, msim, taxonomy, tc, technical communication, ucd, unconference, user experience, usercentered design, ux, web design