BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ensemble Independent//vPim 0.360//EN CALSCALE:Gregorian X-WR-CALNAME:Boxes and Arrows Events Calendar tagged "research" BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061011 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061018 SUMMARY:Open Online Discussion with Dan Saffer LOCATION:Virtual DESCRIPTION:Dan's succeeded in creating a fantastic introduction and overvi ew of our discipline of interaction design. People are encouraged to parti cipate in this discussion, and I know there are many of you with keen insig hts and thoughtful ideas that would greatly contribute. \n \nThe open disc ussion will go on for the next week, until Tuesday October 17. Offsite (no n-WELL member) readers with questions or comments may send them to inkwell@ well.com to have them added to the conversation. \n \nAbout The WELL \n \nT he WELL is a cherished and acclaimed destination for conversation and discu ssion. For twenty years it has captivated intelligent, creative people. It is widely known as the primordial ooze where the online community movement was born — where Howard Rheingold first coined the term "virtual communit y." Over the last two decades, it's been described as "the world's most inf luential online community" in a Wired Magazine cover story, and "the Park P lace of email addresses" by John Perry Barlow. It's won Dvorak and Webby Aw ards, inspired songs and novels, and almost invisibly influences modern cul ture. \n \nNow run by Salon Media Group, independent publishers of the grou nd-breaking Salon.com online news magazine, The WELL continues to cast a lo ng cultural shadow. For many people it's the place you aren't quite sure yo u've heard of, but may just wish you had. For members, it's a place to come up with the next interesting thing and a way to live. \n \nHope to see you there! \n \nJim \n \n \nJames Leftwich, IDSA \nOrbit Interaction \nPalo Al to, California \nhttp://www.orbitnet.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061105 SUMMARY:WonderGround LOCATION:Lisbon, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Designing interdisciplinary discourse, conspiring for Design Le adership \n \nWonderground - the 2006 Design Research Society International Conference in Lisbon, Portugal at IADE Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing. The conference is co-chaired by Eduardo Corte-Real, Ken Friedm an, and Terence Love with Chris Rust as chair of the research exhibition an d Charles Burnette as chair of the scientific committee. \n \nThe 2006 conf erence will invite 2 kinds of papers -- full papers at 5,000-6,000 words, w orking papers at 2,000 words plus references, as well as contributions to t he research exhibition. Design Research News will publish the full call nex t month. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061209 SUMMARY:Cooper U | Interaction Design Practicum LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:As the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Practi cum was designed for usability and design practitioners, product managers, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a product idea and what actually gets built. In this course, you will work through a specific desi gn problem while learning how to: \n \n*Better understand business stakeho lder needs \n \n*Plan and conduct ethnography-based research with users and potential users \n \n*Create a rigorously-defined persona set from user da ta \n \n*Use scenarios and goals to determine requirements \n \n*Apply scen arios, principles, and design patterns to define and iterate an interaction framework \n \n*Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky inno vation to minor product updates \n \nThe Practicum is held at Cooper's hea dquarters approximately 10 times a year. For the convenience of internation al travelers, our other courses are sometimes scheduled immediately after t he practicum. All sessions are limited to 20 participants. \n \nWHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE \n \n“This is commercially grounded, highly captivating, very interactive, a lot of fun, and has given me something to take back which I’m confident I can apply. The cost benefit is not an is sue–--this has to be taken by our designers.â€? \n \n“Inspiring, educat ional, fun. I’m leaving with a lot of tools, information, and confidence. â€? \n \n“Well worth your time. Fills the large void between needs identi fication and construction.â€? \n \n“Great course. We can apply these desi gn methods to the hole in our XP process.â€? \n \n“Highly recommended! Ev en as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity check f or the work I’m doing. I’m totally energized!â€? \n \nEARLY REGISTRATIO N AND GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. \n \nIf you have a large team to train, w e can bring our courses to you. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070120 SUMMARY:Cooper U: Interaction Design Practicum LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:As the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Practi cum was designed for usability and design practitioners, product managers, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a product idea and what actually gets built. In this course, you will work through a specific desi gn problem while learning how to: \n \n*Better understand business stakeho lder needs \n \n*Plan and conduct ethnography-based research with users and potential users \n \n*Create a rigorously-defined persona set from user da ta \n \n*Use scenarios and goals to determine requirements \n \n*Apply scen arios, principles, and design patterns to define and iterate an interaction framework \n \n*Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky inno vation to minor product updates \n \nThe Practicum is held at Cooper's hea dquarters approximately 10 times a year. For the convenience of internation al travelers, our other courses are sometimes scheduled immediately after t he practicum. All sessions are limited to 20 participants. \n \nWHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE \n \n“This is commercially grounded, highly captivating, very interactive, a lot of fun, and has given me something to take back which I’m confident I can apply. The cost benefit is not an is sue–--this has to be taken by our designers." \n \n“Inspiring, educatio nal, fun. I’m leaving with a lot of tools, information, and confidence." \n \n“Well worth your time. Fills the large void between needs identifica tion and construction." \n \n“Great course. We can apply these design met hods to the hole in our XP process." \n \n“Highly recommended! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity check for the w ork I’m doing. I’m totally energized!" \n \nEARLY REGISTRATION AND GROU P DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. \n \nIf you have a large team to train, we can brin g our courses to you. \n \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071019 SUMMARY:A Design Dialogue LOCATION:Atlanta, Georgia, USA DESCRIPTION:Join us for insights and inspiration as two thought leaders eng age in some friendly verbal sparring to compare and contrast their unique d isciplinary viewpoints on design, HCI, and user experience. \n \nJoe Balla y is a nationally known industrial designer and Founder and Principal of MA YA Design, a design consultancy and technology research lab in Pittsburgh, PA. He is also a senior faculty member in the Department of Design at Carne gie Mellon University. As the head of the department, Joe was instrumental in orienting CMU's design programs toward integrating high technology with traditional graphic and industrial design. \n \nGregory Abowd is a Profess or in the School of Interactive Computing and GVU Center at Georgia Tech. H is research focuses on application-driven research in ubiquitous computing. He has been associated with several large research efforts (Classroom 200 0, the Aware Home, and information technologies for autism) and has consult ed in the development of commercialized versions of his research. \n \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071115 SUMMARY:IxDA SF: In The Moment LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Yahoo! Brickhouse \n500 3rd St \nSan Francisco, California 9410 7 \n \n6:00 – Social Hour \n7:00 – Presentation \nFREE \n \nIxDA SF returns with its third event in our design tools series. This month we present Nat e Bolt, CEO of Bolt | Peters, as he presents UX research about life. \n \nN ot all UX research is about the interface. It’s about the habits, moods, lo cation, and motivations of the people using your interface. Unfortunately, that junk is unpredictable and difficult to measure, but can make or break the accuracy of your research. Here are three examples of how we’ve structu red research to uncover where peoples’ real lives meet technology: \n \n(I) Web Apps. Live intercepts and remote research. Get on the user’s time, ins tead of forcing participants to follow your time as a researcher. \n \n(II) Video Games. Simulated native environment testing and six-on-one moderatio n with TeamSpeak. Sounds crazy, and it is. We’ll show a short documentary o n what all that means and how much better it is than standard video game re search. \n \n(III) Cars. Getting into people’s cars to film them while they drive, smoke a cigarette, flip open their laptop, check traffic, and then play an iPod. Also, how to double-check safety and liability waivers. \n \n All three examples preserve the authenticity of users’ moods and behaviors by maintaining a native environment, allowing us to understand relevant bac kground information about a user, and using a relaxed, non-sterile environm ent to conduct the research-preferably, the comfort of their own homes (or cars). Users also have a much bigger role in choosing their tasks and struc turing the interview than the researchers. We’ll talk about splitting our s cripts into passionate themes and backup questions, watch actual video and audio from recent research and explain what we found. \n \n-- \n \nHave a g reat idea for a future event? Interested in sponsorship? Get in touch! sf-l ocal at ixda.org \n \nPresented by IxDA San Francisco and Yahoo! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080621 SUMMARY:Cooper U: Interaction Design Practicum LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Our four-day Practicum is an intensive, hands-on workshop led b y senior Cooper designers. We’ll show you how to: \n \n * Identify and a ddress business issues \n * Plan and conduct user research to uncover us er goals and mental models \n * Turn user data into a set of personas th at guide (and sell!) the design \n * Use scenarios and goals to identify and prioritize requirements \n * Apply scenarios, principles and patter ns to define the right interaction framework \n * Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky innovation to minor product updates \n \nAs the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Interaction Design P racticum was created for usability and design practitioners, product manage rs, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a list of requireme nts and what actually gets built. \n______________________________________ _ \n \nWhat attendees have said about this course: \n \n"Highly recommended ! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity che ck for the work I'm doing. I'm totally energized!" \n \n"Well worth your ti me. Fills the large void between needs identification and construction." \n \n"Inspirational, educational, fun. I'm leaving with a lot of tools, infor mation, and confidence." \n \n_______________________________________ \n \n Our new "Business of Innovation" course happens the following week on June 23-24. \n \nIf you can't attend this Practicum session, there's another Jul y 22-25, followed by our two day Visual Interface Design and Communicating Design classes. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080722 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080726 SUMMARY:Cooper U: Interaction Design Practicum LOCATION:San Francisco, California, USA DESCRIPTION:Our four-day Practicum is an intensive, hands-on workshop led b y senior Cooper designers. We’ll show you how to: \n \n * Identify and a ddress business issues \n * Plan and conduct user research to uncover us er goals and mental models \n * Turn user data into a set of personas th at guide (and sell!) the design \n * Use scenarios and goals to identify and prioritize requirements \n * Apply scenarios, principles and patter ns to define the right interaction framework \n * Apply these methods to everything from pie-in-the-sky innovation to minor product updates \n \nAs the foundation course in the Cooper U curriculum, the Interaction Design P racticum was created for usability and design practitioners, product manage rs, and anyone else who strives to fill the gap between a list of requireme nts and what actually gets built. \n______________________________________ _ \n \nWhat attendees have said about this course: \n \n"Highly recommended ! Even as an experienced designer I both learned a lot and got a sanity che ck for the work I'm doing. I'm totally energized!" \n \n"Well worth your ti me. Fills the large void between needs identification and construction." \n \n"Inspirational, educational, fun. I'm leaving with a lot of tools, infor mation, and confidence." \n \n_______________________________________ \n \n If you can stick around for a weekend in San Francisco, consider taking our two day Visual Interface Design and Communicating Design classes the follo wing week. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080911 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080912 SUMMARY:High-Definition Design Research LOCATION:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00 PM (social time from 6:00 - 6:30 PM) \nWHERE: Heilmeier Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 220 S 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 \nRSVP: phillychi@gmail.com \n---- \n \nAbout the Presentation \nLike the proverbial shoe-less cobbler's childre n, user researchers have historically lacked appropriate technology for stu dying how people use technology. But this has changed with the emergence of a variety of tools that can be applied to data gathering, analysis and sha ring. Now there is a need for awareness and guidance in the selection and u se of such research technologies. \n \nThis presentation will cover: \n- Th e basic characteristics of effective user research tools \n- Data on curren t usage of various technologies for data gathering, analysis and presentati on \n- Demonstrations and tips on the latest technology tools for conductin g user research, including high-speed digital video and pen computing \n- C oncept designs of future user research tools \n \nFor more background on th e topic: http://tinyurl.com/6ae3tg \n \nAbout the Speaker \nRob has over 15 years experience applying product/interface usability in the medical, indu strial, commercial and consumer fields. He is Director of Research at Bress lergroup, an award-winning product design and development firm. Bresslergro up's research practice delivers expertise and training in design research, human factors and usability. Previously he was Director of Human Factors at Electronic Ink, and held positions at Siemens Medical Solutions and the Ai r Force Research Laboratory. \n \nRob is author of DesigningforHumans.com, a blog focusing on events, methods and technology related to user research. He has represented design research as a juror for the ID Magazine Annual D esign Review and the International Design Excellence Awards. Rob holds a Ph D in Human Factors/Experimental Psychology and is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE). END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR