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FITC ‘07 (originally ‘Flash In The Can’), Toronto April 22 - 24, 2007. http://www.fitc.ca/ 

Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). VDA 2007: Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, part of IS&T/SPIE’s International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2007. January 28 - February 1, 2007. San Jose, CA. http://vw.indiana.edu/vda2007/

Kadir Has University. Faculty of Communication. Communication, Art and Design. 2nd International Doctoral Consortium.  29-30 March 2006. Kadir Has University, Cibali Conference Hall, Istanbul, Turkey.
 
Call for Participation:
Kadir Has University is hosting an international doctoral consortium to encourage quality research, publication and creation of an international network of academics who exchange ideas in related fields. This is a two day event comprised of workshops organized around common themes.

-Media and Communication Studies
-Cinema Studies  
-Drama and Performance
-Design and Communication
-Media, City and Spectacle (more…)

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. World Design Congress. October 17-20. 2007. San Francisco. http://www.connecting07.org/

January 22-24, 2007. EIM 2007: Effectively Accessing Information Through Enterprise Search. San Francisco, CA, USA. http://www.eim2007.com/

Enterprise Information Management 2007 brings together the current industry leaders and innovators from Fortune 500 companies that are using enterprise search to improve their overall company performance.

March 24-26, 2007. Preconference workshops March 22-23. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.iasummit.org/2007/

March 8-9, 2007. Sydney, Australia. Led by Peter Morville, co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and Ambient Findability. http://www.keyforums.com.au

Engineering Interactive Systems 2007. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. March 22-24, 2007. http://www.se-hci.org/ehci-hcse-dsvis07/index.html

Joining Three Working Conferences:
FIP WG2.7/13.4 10th Conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction
IFIP WG 13.2 1st Conference on Human Centred Software Engineering
DSVIS - 14th Conference on Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems

Engineering Interactive Systems 2007 is a working conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the relationship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and on how to strengthen user centred design as an essential part of software engineering process. As a working conference, substantial time is devoted to an open and lively discussion of papers.

Potential papers include: Integration of software engineering and user centred design Software engineering aspects of user interfaces User interface tools and techniques Engineering aspects of innovative user interfaces. Proposal deadline was December 8, 2006. 

November 3 - 8, 2006. ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting. Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All Austin Texas. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/index.html  (more…)

This is a list of conferences specifically focused on information design and information architecture.

For events after December 2005, please visit the events calendar being compiled at this time by the Online SIG at http://www.stcsig.org/oi/on_conferences.htm and on http://stc-on.org/online Please note that announcement of events is a work in progress and this post will be modified from time to time. It may even be deleted eventually. 

This list of conferences was posted in 2005. Many of these events take place regularly every two years. If you would like to update this list for 2007, please contact the website manager. The email address is on the Leadership Team page.

Events are listed from latest to earliest. (more…)