Palo Alto USA 2006-08-10 Prediction Markets are a 15-year old idea that have been getting attention recently for their ability to provide improved and continuously updated forecasts. Participants back their estimates of the likelihood of different outcomes with real or play money. The incentives reward honesty, insight, and information sharing. The result is a projection that accounts for the strengths of different opinions, and attends to contributions from people whose opinions would be ignored by polls, focus groups, or official forecasting departments. These markets are being used in a variety of contexts, including sports betting, predicting Hollywood box office returns, and projecting the spread of infectious diseases. Chris Hibbert will show that Prediction Markets would be a valuable addition to any organization that wants to know more about what the employees are doing or what the customers want. 18 CA Prediction Markets are being used in a variety of contexts, including sports betting, predicting Hollywood box office returns, and projecting the spread of infectious diseases. 2006-08-09 false http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1952&mo=8&yr=2006 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/18 business, engineering, enterprise, open source, prediction markets Boston USA 2007-11-09 Register for all 4 days by October 23rd with the promotion code BOXES to receive $30 off each day and a limited-edition UI12 iPod video http://www.uiconf.com BOXES promo code cannot be combined with any other special offer or promotional code, and is only valid for 4 day registrations. For the User Interface 12 Conference ( http://www.uiconf.com ), Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers have asked the most forward thinking minds in the world of usability to present on today's most pressing design topics. For 4 full days, you'll learn in-depth techniques from these top experts, and come away with the knowledge and confidence necessary to tackle your biggest design challenges. Now in its twelfth year, the UI12 Conference examines the most critical web design and usability issues facing designers, information architects, and usability professionals. Topics include: Agile Development, Task-based Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Building Innovative Designs, Communicating with Comics, Interaction Design, and Designing with CSS. On Monday, November 5th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Larry Constantine, Gerry McGovern, Rolf Molich, or Luke Wroblewski. On Tuesday, November 6th, you'll have the chance to attend several of the informative and entertaining 90-minute Featured Talks from each of our conference speakers, as well as the UI12 Conference Keynote presentation from Jared M. Spool. On Wednesday, November 7th, you'll have the chance to attend one of four full-day seminars from Scott Berkun, Kevin Cheng, Kim Goodwin, or Cameron Moll. We'll cap off the week on Thursday, November 8th, with our Showcase Seminar Day, where you can choose between UIE's most popular seminars. 196 MA User Interface 12 is being held November 5-8, 2007 in Cambridge, MA. We've lined up fantastic speakers giving full-day seminars and short talks on today's most pressing usability and design issues. 2007-11-05 false http://www.uiconf.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/196 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/196/ui12-badge.gif agile development, book, book seller, comics, content, content management, css, design, designer, developer, engineering, folksonomy, information architecture, innovation, interaction, interface, jared spool, management, personas, professional, seminar, social, social web design, taxonomy, testing, tutortial, ucd, uie, usability, user, ux, visual design, web application, web site, workshop 2007-11-15 Sign up today at http://tinyurl.com/yruel4 and use the promo code "BOXES" to receive $30 off. In this presentation, Jared M. Spool will walk through an easy-to-accomplish 30 day plan for developing your own persona-based scenarios. He'll tackle each of the four development stages: gathering the field research, analyzing the data, building the personas and their scenarios, and integrating the results into the development process. Gathering the Field Research: Jared will show you how to decide how many folks to visit, who they should be, and how to prepare for meeting them. He'll talk about the best ways to collect information and how to best involve other team members. Analyzing the Data: Jared will demonstrate several techniques from the analysis toolkit, including pair-wise comparisons, KJ Analyses, and weighted charts. He'll show you quick and easy methods for sorting, organizing, and identifying the trends and insights you discovered in your study. Building the Personas and Their Scenarios: Jared will show you how robust personas utilize the elements uncovered in the research and analysis, making their creation easily flow from your pen (or keyboard). Jared will walk through several effective techniques for readying your insights about your users and their needs. Integrating Personas into the Development Process: The best teams have a ready-made plan as to how they'll infuse their newly created personas and scenarios directly into the existing development process. Jared will share techniques you can use immediately to introduce the personas, walk through the scenarios, and ensure they become fixture of your development process. As with all of the UIE Virtual Seminars, you'll get a complete handout with plenty of examples and an opportunity to ask Jared those burning questions about how to do this well in your environment. Sign up today at http://tinyurl.com/yruel4 and use the promo code "BOXES" to receive $30 off. 344 Usability and design expert, Jared M. Spool will walk through an easy-to-accomplish 30 day plan for developing your own persona-based scenarios based on UIE's research for only $99 (promo inside.) 2007-11-14 true http://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/building_personas/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/344 design, designer, developement, engineer, engineering, expert, field research, interface, jared, kj analyses, manager, organizing, personas, project, resources, scenarios, small, sorting, spool, techniques, uie, usability, user, user interface engineering, virtual, weighted charts Chicago USA 2010-09-23 Cusp Conference puts design where it belongs: everywhere. It's two days of seemingly random but totally focused energy, ideas, inspiration, revelation and absolute awesomeness delivered by an eclectic roster of artists, designers, attorneys, educators, activists, innovators, architects, scientists, musicians, engineers, authors, filmmakers, physicians, entrepreneurs and students. Why attend? "Physicists use the word 'entropy' to mean 'increasing disorder.' One of the two anti-entropic processes is a green planet… photosynthesis. The other anti-entropic process is what this conference is all about… human intelligence." Dr. Carl Hodges The Seawater Foundation Cusp Conference 2008 presenter. September 28-29, 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Theater, Chicago Cusp Conference 2011 presenters include: Emily Cummins - Inventor Daniel Epstein - Unreasonable Guy Sarah Elizabeth Ippel - Education Innovator Erik Proulx - Lemonade Maker 1489 IL A conference about the design of everything. 2011-09-28 false http://www.cuspconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1489 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1489/-cusp-logo-3.png art, design, engineering, film, imagination, innovation, music, science, sustainability Chicago USA 2011-09-30 Cusp Conference: two days of seemingly random but totally focused energy, ideas, inspiration, revelation and absolute awesomeness delivered by an eclectic roster of artists, designers, attorneys, educators, activists, innovators, architects, scientists, musicians, engineers, authors, filmmakers, physicians, entrepreneurs and students. Why attend? "Physicists use the word 'entropy' to mean 'increasing disorder.' One of the two anti-entropic processes is a green planet… photosynthesis. The other anti-entropic process is what this conference is all about… human intelligence." Dr. Carl Hodges The Seawater Foundation Cusp Conference 2008 presenter. September 28-29, 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Theater, Chicago Cusp Conference 2011 presenters include: Emily Cummins - Inventor Daniel Epstein - Unreasonable Guy Sarah Elizabeth Ippel - Education Innovator Erik Proulx - Lemonade Maker 1551 IL The design of everything. 2011-09-28 false http://www.cuspconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/1551 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/1551/-cusp-logo-3.png art, conference, design, engineering, film, imagination, innovation, inspiration, music, science, sustainability