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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060817
SUMMARY:DC Informal Cocktail Hour
LOCATION:Washington, District of Columbia, USA
DESCRIPTION:If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area Wednesday eveni
 ng, August 15, I want to invite you to an informal cocktail hour. A bunch o
 f us will be gathering just to talk about usability, information architectu
 re,interaction design, user experience, and whatever else is on our minds. 
 I'd love to see you there!
\n
\nWhere: Heritage India
\n        1337 Connec
 ticut Ave., NW,
\n        Washington, DC 20009
\n        http://tinyurl.com
 /pk8jr
\n
\nWhen:  6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
\n
\nNo RSVP necessary -- We'll see yo
 u there.
\n
\n--Jared Spool
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060817
SUMMARY:DC Informal Cocktail Hour
LOCATION:Washington, District of Columbia, USA
DESCRIPTION:If you find yourself in the Washington, DC area Wednesday eveni
 ng, August 15, I want to invite you to an informal cocktail hour. A bunch o
 f us will be gathering just to talk about usability, information architectu
 re,interaction design, user experience, and whatever else is on our minds. 
 I'd love to see you there!
\n
\nWhere: Heritage India
\n        1337 Connec
 ticut Ave., NW,
\n        Washington, DC 20009
\n        http://tinyurl.com
 /pk8jr
\n
\nWhen:  6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
\n
\nNo RSVP necessary -- We'll see yo
 u there.
\n
\n--Jared Spool
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060922
SUMMARY:NYC IxDA Sept Meeting - Season Kickoff
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:Come by and kick off the 2006 - 2007 season with NYC IxDA. See 
 what everyone has been up to this Summer, meet old friends, and make new on
 es!
\n
\nGreg Petroff, Member of the IxDA Board of Directors & Treasurer, w
 ill also give a short presentation of the IxDA's vision for a new online co
 mmunity of practice and will show examples of the first steps towards getti
 ng there.
\n
\nWHEN: 
\nThu, Sep 21 @ 6:30p - 8:30p
\n
\nWHERE: 
\nBrand Ex
 perience Lab
\n520 Broadway, 5th Floor
\n(Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/pw3t
 u)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061002
SUMMARY:2006 Euro IA Summit
LOCATION:Berlin, Germany
DESCRIPTION:The 2006 Euro IA Summit theme is ’Building Our Practice’ Af
 ter the success of last year’s Euro IA Summit, it was obvious we had to o
 rganise another one this year. This year we want to look at what it takes t
 o be an IA in Europe. What are the things that we have in common? What are 
 the specifc issues we have to deal with in our country or our business? How
  can we extend and build the practice of IA in Europe?
\n
\n*Why do we need
  a European Summit?*
\n
\nFor starters, if you live over here, it’s a lot
  easier to get to Berlin than the U.S. or Canada. Second, when we deal with
  multi-language applications, we really mean it - there are over 20 nationa
 l languages within the EU alone. Third, we are doing amazing things with al
 ternative interfaces - phones and pocket computers, for example. Most impor
 tant of all, we are European, not North American - and we see the world a l
 ittle differently.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061016
SUMMARY:International Design for Engagement Conference 2006
LOCATION:Oslo, Norway
DESCRIPTION:Themes
\n* Interactive arts
\n
\n* Product and industrial desig
 n
\n
\n* Games
\n
\n* E-commerce
\n
\n* E-health
\n
\n* Human-computer Inte
 raction
\n
\n* Mobile Computing
\n
\n* Intranets
\n
\n* Location-based serv
 ices
\n
\n* New media
\n
\n* Rich and virtual environments
\n
\n* Value sen
 sitive design and ethics
\n
\n* Virtual and augmented reality
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061025
SUMMARY:IDEA 2006
LOCATION:Seattle, Washington, USA
DESCRIPTION:Design problems are increasingly becoming information problems.
 
\n
\nThroughout their days, people are engaging with complex information t
 o manage their lives.
\n
\nAnd designers now realize that information isn't
  simply this stuff you find -- the appropriate presentation of information 
 helps people make sense of the world around them.
\n
\nThis conference addr
 esses issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Where "cyb
 erspace" is a meaningless term because the online and offline worlds cannot
  be made distinct. Where physical spaces are so complex that detailed wayfi
 nding is necessary to navigate them. Where work processes have become so in
 volved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those proces
 ses.
\n
\nThis conference brings together people who are addressing these c
 hallenges head on. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds will discuss desi
 gning complex information spaces in the physical and virtual worlds. progra
 m. 
\n
\nKeynote: Bruce Sterling
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061026
SUMMARY:Designing for Interaction Workshop
LOCATION:New York City, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:Dan Saffer, Adaptive Path's senior interaction designer and aut
 hor of "Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications & Clever Dev
 ices", will cover the four approaches to interaction design; the elements, 
 principles, and attributes of good interaction design; design research tech
 niques; documentation; designing for multitasking, adaptation, and hacking;
  and service design.
\n
\nDesigning for Interaction is for new designers an
 d anyone interested in interaction design, as well as more experienced desi
 gners who want a deeper view of and new methods for practicing interaction 
 design.
\n
\nParticipants will walk away with not only a firm grasp of the 
 underlying principles of interaction design, but also the tools needed to p
 ut those into practice.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061212
SUMMARY:IxDA Sweden | Interaction design and aesthetics
LOCATION:Stockholm, Sweden
DESCRIPTION:On Monday the 11th at ca 18:00 IxDA Sweden is arranging a
\nlec
 ture/discussion with Jonas Löwgren (Professor of interaction design, Schoo
 l of arts and communication ,Malmö University) on interaction design and a
 esthetics. Read more (in Swedish) at http://sweden.ixda.org/event3_ixdoches
 tetik.shtml and about Jonas and his work (in English) at http://webzone.k3.
 mah.se/k3jolo/
\n
\nThe event will be held at and sponsored by Doberman, Br
 unnsgränd 1 in the Old town, Stockholm. (http://www.doberman.se)
\n
\nRSVP
  via mail to sweden@ixda.org.
\n
\nInterested in sponsoring refreshments? (
 1000-2000 SEK) Send us a mail!
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061213
SUMMARY:NYC UX Holiday Party
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:The UX community  in NYC will be getting together for a Holiday
  social event.
\n
\nWhere: 
\nEight Mile Creek
\n(downstairs)
\n240 Mulberr
 y Street 
\n(between prince and spring)
\nhttp://www.eightmilecreek.com/
\n
 
\nTime:
\n6p - 9p
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070118
SUMMARY:Good Guesses: Making Better Interaction Design Dec
LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Socializing and refreshments: 7-7:30 pm
\nPresentation: 7:30-9:
 30 pm
\nPlace: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Building C, Classroom 5
\nDirections: htt
 p://www.baychi.org/calendar/20070117/directions/
\n
\nPresentation by Dan S
 affer
\nIn design, there are no right answers, just many possible answers t
 o a given problem. Some of those answers are better than others, and some o
 f those answers are just...well, guesses. How do we make good guesses? Can 
 we make better guesses? The best designer is often the one who makes the be
 st guesses. This free event is open to the general public.
\n
\n:: Dan Saff
 er is an interaction designer at Adaptive Path. He previously worked at Org
 anic and Datek, and has a Masters in Design, Interaction Design from Carneg
 ie Mellon University. He has worked with a wide variety of clients, from st
 artups to Fortune 100s, designing Web sites, applications and devices. Dan 
 is the author of Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and
  Clever Devices. He is on the board of directors for IxDA and is also a mem
 ber of AIGA and IDSA.
\n
\nCo-sponsors of this event:
\n
\n    * IxDA (Inte
 raction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face
\n    * BayCHI IxD 
 BOF
\n
\nFor more information about his event, go to:
\nhttp://www.baychi.o
 rg/calendar/20070117/
\n
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070322
SUMMARY:IxDA Silicon Valley :: Life Beyond Embodiment
LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007
\nSocializing and refreshments:
  7-7:30 pm
\nProgram: 7:30-9:30 pm
\nPlace: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale
\n
\nSome yea
 rs ago, Paul Dourish introduced the concept of embodiment, which describes 
 the distance between bytes and atoms. Leandro  Agrò will speak about how a
 n Italian company is working to reduce this distance, by creating emotional
  virtual agents to move bytes toward atoms on one side, while moving atoms 
 toward bytes, Second Life's human users, on the other.
\n
\n:: Leandro AgrÃ
 ² has more than 10 years of experience as an interaction designer and manag
 er of IxD teams. With extensive experience in multimodal interfaces based o
 n eyetracking, he recently was seduced by the potential of virtual assistan
 ts with human-like behaviors. Leandro studied interaction design at the Dom
 us Academy, in Milan, Italy—working on the '97 Apple Design Project. He i
 s actively involved with the Milano Bicocca University, TorVergata Universi
 ty, Siena University, and others. Leandro is a prolific writer on topics fr
 om IxD, usability, and UX to natural, multimodal user interfaces. He is the
  founder of Idearium.org, the first Italian eZine/community for UX designer
 s and co-producer of the Interaction Frontiers conference. For more informa
 tion, see Leandro's blog, leeander.com.
\n
\nCo-sponsors of this event:
\n
 \n    * IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face
\
 n    * BayCHI IxD BOF
\n
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070520
SUMMARY:IA Summit Redux
LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:IA Summit speakers who are local to the San Francisco Bay Area 
 will give their presentations. Here is the program for the event:
\n
\n2:00
  pm—Kevin Cheng and Tom Wailes, “Finding Innovation in the 500 Pound Go
 rilla”
\n
\n2:45 pm—Sarah Rice, “Case Study: How Cognitive Framing An
 alysis Impacts Organizational Strategy”
\n
\n3:30 pm—Rashmi Sinha, Clos
 ing Plenary: “Fast, Cheap, and Somewhat in
\nControl: 10 Lessons from the
  Design of SlideShare”
\n
\n4:15 pm—Tea Break—Yahoo! is generously pr
 oviding food and beverages.
\n
\n5:00 pm—Marisa Gallagher and Garrick Sch
 midt, “Intelligent Inter(RE)action:
\nAn Argument for a Data-Driven Appro
 ach to UI Design”
\n
\n5:45 pm—Lucas Pettinati, “Peer (Or Team) Desig
 n Reviews: How to Give ‘Em and Take ‘Em”
\n
\n6:30 pm—Break
\n
\n6:
 45 pm—Christian Crumlish, “Mobile Information Architecture: Designing E
 xperiences for the Mobile Web”
\n
\n7:30-8:15 pm—Luke Wroblewski, “Be
 st Practices for Form Design”
\n
\n::: To learn more about the individual
  presentations, go to the IA Summit
\n2007 Web site:
\n
\nhttp://www.iasumm
 it.org/2007/conferenceProgram.htm
\n
\nThe IA Summit Redux will take place 
 at this location:
\n
\nYahoo! Sunnyvale Campus
\nBuilding C, Classroom 5
\n
 701 First Avenue
\nSunnyvale, CA 94089
\n
\nDirections:
\n
\nFrom San Jose:
 
\n
\n* Take U.S. 101 northbound.
\n* Exit at Mathilda Avenue.
\n* Turn rig
 ht onto North Mathilda Avenue.
\n* Turn left onto First Avenue, opposite Bo
 rdeaux Drive, the street on the right.
\n* Take the first right into the Ya
 hoo! parking lot.
\n
\nFrom San Francisco:
\n
\n* Take U.S. 101 southbound.
 
\n* Take the Alviso/Milpitas exit to CA 237 eastbound.
\n* Immediately aft
 er the merge onto 237, take the Mathilda Avenue exit.
\n* Turn left onto No
 rth Mathilda Avenue.
\n* Turn left onto First Avenue, opposite Bordeaux Dri
 ve, the street on the right.
\n* Take the first right into the Yahoo! parki
 ng lot.
\n
\nIxDA, BayCHI, and BayDUX are presenting this event.
\n
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070619
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070620
SUMMARY:NH UX Gathering!
LOCATION:Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
DESCRIPTION:Come out and join other UX professionals in the Seacoast NH, So
 uthern NH, and Southern ME regions for drinks and networking! 
\n
\nThis wi
 ll be an excellent opportunity to meet fellow usability professionals, info
 rmation architects, interaction designers, and other professionals that fal
 l under the User Experience umbrella to share experiences and learn about j
 ob openings in the area. 
\n
\nThis is the first of many networking events 
 we expect to have in this area. Our goal is to foster the growth of the loc
 al UX community and, if there is enough interest, to eventually start a new
  UPA chapter. 
\n
\nPlease pass this announcement on to anyone you think wi
 ll be interested.
\n
\nWhen: 
\nTuesday, June 19th
\n6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
\n
 
\nWhere:
\nPortsmouth, NH (venue TBD)
\n
\nRSVP: 
\nYou must RSVP to atten
 d, as we need a head count for the venue. Send RSVPs to Kyle Pero, kylepero
 @usableinterface.com. You will receive an email confirmation once your name
  has been added to the list of attendees.
\n
\n+  +  +
\n
\nStay informed a
 bout NH UX meetings and events by joining the NH-UX Yahoo group at: http://
 groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/
\n
\n+  +  +
\n
\nHope to see you there!
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070720
SUMMARY:NH UX July Meeting!
LOCATION:Portmsouth, New Hampshire, USA
DESCRIPTION:Where:
\nAK's Bar & Bistro (2nd floor)
\n111 State Street
\nPor
 tsmouth, NH 03801
\n
\nStreet Map: http://tinyurl.com/2edxky
\nParking Map:
  http://tinyurl.com/ytsuz8 (street parking is also available)
\n
\nTopic:
\
 n
\nWhat Would It Mean to Become a UPA Chapter?
\nAs we explore the possibi
 lity of becoming a chapter, we thought it would be interesting to hear from
  someone who’s been an integral part of the most successful UPA chapter in 
 the world, Boston UPA …
\n
\nChauncey Wilson, a founding member and past pr
 esident of Boston UPA, will be joining us at this meeting. He’ll be giving 
 a half hour talk on his experience with Boston UPA, and answering your ques
 tions. Afterwards, we invite everyone to take part in an informal group dis
 cussion on the future of NH UX.
\n
\nAbout Chauncey Wilson:
\nChauncey Wils
 on has spent 20 years as an engineering psychologist, user interface design
 er, usability engineer, and product development manager. His academic backg
 round includes a physics degree and graduate training in social psychology,
  human factors engineering, and statistics. His consulting clients have inc
 luded Microsoft, FEDEX, Lotus, Reuters, and 3COM. He is past president of t
 he Northern New England chapter of the Society for Technical Communication 
 (STC) and the STC Usability SIG, and member of the Usability Professionals'
  Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the ACM SIGCHI.
  He co-wrote The Usability Engineering Framework for Product Design and Eva
 luation in the handbook of HCI and has presented on the psychology of victi
 mization, research ethics, cyberlaw, usability methods, web design, and doc
 umentation usability.
\n
\nRSVP: 
\nYou must RSVP to attend. Send RSVPs to 
 Kyle Pero, kylepero@usableinterface.com. You will receive an email confirma
 tion once your name has been added to the list of attendees.
\n
\n+  +  +
\
 n
\nStay informed about NH UX meetings and events by joining the NH-UX Yaho
 o group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nh-ux/
\n
\n+  +  +
\n
\nHope to 
 see you there!
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080211
SUMMARY:IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah
LOCATION:Savannah, Georgia, USA
DESCRIPTION:Interaction 08 will be held from February 8-10, 2008 in histori
 c and festive Savannah, Georgia, on the campus of The Savannah College of A
 rt and Design. Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the w
 orld as we address the design of interactive systems of all types: applicat
 ions (web and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced en
 vironments, and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun partie
 s, and smart discussions about our growing field.
\n
\nInteraction 08 will 
 feature two days of inspirational and tactical sessions geared at anyone wh
 o practices Interaction Design, as well as a day of pre-conference workshop
 s. We're planning two tracks of thought provoking discussions during each d
 ay, followed by social gatherings on Friday and Saturday evenings. 
\n
\nKe
 ynotes:
\nAlan Cooper - CEO; Cooper
\nSigi Moeslinger - Principal; Antenna 
 Design
\nBill Buxton - Principal Researcher; Microsoft
\nMalcolm McCullough
  - Prof. of Architecture; Univ. of Michigan 
\n
\nInvited Speakers:
\n# Jar
 ed Spool, UIE
\n# Dan Brown, EightShapes
\n# Sarah Allen, Laszlo Systems
\n
 # Régine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art
\n# Jenny Lam, Jackson Fish Market
 \n# Matt Jones, BBC
\n# Aza Raskin, Humanized
\n# Molly Wright Steenson, Pr
 inceton University
\n
\n
\nConference Pricing:
\nBefore November 15: $499
\
 nNovember 15 and After: $599
\nStudents: $299
\nHalf day workshops: $250
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080725
SUMMARY:NYC IxDA: The Naked Interface
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:- – - – - – - – -
\nRSVP to: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org
\n- –
  - – - – - – -
\nThroughout the electronic age, people have become accustom
 ed to interacting with digital media indirectly, mediated through screens a
 nd peripheral devices. But now, as digital technology becomes invisibly emb
 edded in everyday things, the “feeling” of everyday things is also increasi
 ngly becoming embedded in digital technology.
\n
\nIn many senses, physical
  objects are becoming more important. In an immediate way, they can help us
  define new systems of relationships with digital information. Luke William
 s, Creative Director at frog design, examines how perceptions and gestures 
 formed through our experiences with physical products can effectively bring
  liberty to the relationship between brain, body, and digital media interfa
 ce.
\n
\nWHEN
\nThursday, July 24th
\n6:15 – 7:00 networking (refreshments 
 served)
\n7:00 – 8:00 presentation
\n8:00 – 8:30 Q&A and discussion
\n
\nWH
 ERE
\nLocation details provided on RSVP
\n
\n- – - – - – - – -
\nRSVP to: n
 yc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org
\n- – - – - – - – -
\n
\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER
\nLu
 ke Williams is Creative Director for frog design, and heads the Industrial 
 Design practice for the New York and Austin studios. Prior to that, he work
 ed in frog’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco studios as a creative lead fo
 r projects spanning a wide variety of enterprises such as Daimler Chrysler,
  Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Logitech, Microsoft, Motorola and Yahoo!. In addi
 tion to his role at frog design, Luke is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern 
 School of Business where he co-founded the “Innovation and Design” course t
 o teach design thinking in the graduate MBA program.
\n
\nLuke’s opinions o
 n innovation and design have been sought after in interviews with National 
 Public Radio (NPR), BusinessWeek, ID Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal,
  and he speaks regularly throughout the international design community.
\n
 \n- – - – - – - – -
\nRSVP to: nyc-rsvp (at) ixda (dot) org
\n- – - – - – -
  – -
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081107
SUMMARY:User Experience Week
LOCATION:Lisbon, Portugal
DESCRIPTION:Interface stands on the shoulders of infrastructure. User exper
 ience relies on the foundation systems of information architecture. And, th
 e biggest problem on today’s web sites and intranets is findability. In thi
 s presentation, Peter Morville draws upon examples from e-commerce, educati
 on, and government to illustrate best practices and fundamental concepts of
  user-centered design. He explores the complex relationships between strate
 gy and structure, showing how user research should guide decisions about te
 chnology and features. And, he highlights key challenges and opportunities 
 in interaction design, information architecture, and search.
\n
\nThis fast
 -paced overview is suitable for executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and 
 designers of web sites, software products, and interactive services.
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