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SUMMARY:PhillyCHI March Meeting - Kip Voytek
LOCATION:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
DESCRIPTION:Knowing Smirks & Grins of Delight
\nDate: March 29, 2007
\nTime
 : 6 - 8 pm
\nLocation: MBC - 229 South 18th Street, Rittenhouse Square, Phi
 ladelphia
\nMap: http://mbcnet.com/directions.html
\nRSVP: phillychi@gmail.
 com
\n
\nPhillyCHI is pleased to have Kip Voytek from R/GA discussing how i
 nteraction design must reach beyond usability and the satisfaction of user 
 needs in order to truly help clients achieve their goals. By examining inte
 ractive product examples, he will demonstrate how interactive experience is
  being infused with emotion, creating connections between users and the pro
 ducts they are using. In today’s market, the successful completion of use
 r tasks and usability are table stakes—the competitive advantage lies in 
 being able to make experiences enjoyable, fun, delightful.
\n
\nKip Voytek 
 is Senior Vice President of Interaction Design at R/GA, the lead digital pa
 rtner for Fortune 500 companies and world-class brands such as Avaya, Lowe'
 s, Purina, Subaru, Target and Verizon. Over his career, he has won dozens o
 f awards from some of the most prestigious competitions, including the One 
 Show Interactive and Cyberlions. Voytek began his career as a game designer
  and writer at Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) and Byron Preiss Multimedi
 a.
\n
\nLearn more about R/GA at http://rga.com.
\n
\nAbout Medical Broadca
 sting Company (MBC): We are the healthcare demand experts. We are experts i
 n using the Internet to connect our clients' knowledge, advice, and experie
 nce to 
\npeople's problems, conditions, and questions. We help our clients
  help doctors, patients, and all the people who care for them have better-i
 nformed conversations that lead to better treatments and better results. Be
 cause of our expertise and our clients' success, we are the interactive age
 ncy of record for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, a
 nd medical device companies. MBC is an agency of the Digitas family, a memb
 er of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A.
\n
\nFor more information please
  visit www.mbcnet.com.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080918
SUMMARY:IxDA NYC: "Tap is the New Click" by Dan Saffer
LOCATION:New York, New York, USA
DESCRIPTION:“Tap is the New Click” 
\n
\nEven though the technology has bee
 n around for decades, only now are we starting to see mass production and a
 doption of touchscreen and gestural devices for the public. Jeff Han’s infl
 uential 2006 TED demonstration of his multitouch system, followed by the la
 unches of Nintendo’s Wii, Apple’s iPhone, and Microsoft Surface, have annou
 nced a new era of interaction design, one where gestures in space and touch
 es on a screen will be as prominent as pointing and clicking.
\n
\nBut how 
 do you create products for this new paradigm? While most of us know how to 
 design desktop and web applications, what do you need to know to design for
  interactive gestures?
\n
\nThis introduction to designing gestural interfa
 ces will cover the basics: usability and ergonomics; a brief history of the
  technology; some elemental patterns of use; prototyping and documenting; a
 nd how to communicate that a gestural interface is present to users.
\n
\nW
 hen:
\n6:15 - 7:00 networking
\n7:00 - 8:00 presentation
\n8:00 - 8:30 Q&A
 \nPlan to arrive by 6:45 p.m. to clear security and be seated
\n
\nWhere:
\
 nR/GA
\n350 West 39th Street
\nNew York, NY 10018
\n
\nRSVP: http://tinyurl
 .com/67ukh6
\n(If you have any problem with the URL, send email to: nyc.ixd
 a (at) gmail (dot) com)
\n
\nABOUT OUR SPEAKER
\nDan Saffer is an experienc
 e design director for Adaptive Path. An international speaker and author, h
 is writing on design has appeared in BusinessWeek and many online publicati
 ons. His acclaimed book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applicati
 ons and Clever Devices has been called “a bookshelf must-have for anyone th
 inking of creating new designs” and has been translated into several langua
 ges. His new book on interactive gestures will be published by O’Reilly in 
 October 2008.
\n
\nDan is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of A
 merica (IDSA) and the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He received hi
 s Master of Design in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University.
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