Design Matters

Several people have asked about the newest version of the SIG charter. Here it is!

The early bird gets the worm, and in this case a discounted conference rate!  Register by February 28 to take advantage of the low member price - $645 (USD).

Last week, the STC office mailed the preliminary program.  Why wait to receive your copy in the mail?  Go to www.stc.org/54thConf today to check out the latest information about the conference, registration, and accommodations.

Hello,

With this post we’d like to give you a brief update on the activities of the Information Architecture & Information Design SIG leadership team. The first and the most important news: we are establishing a leadership team that has worked on the following:

• Several months ago, we published the SIG charter (see http://stc-on.org/id) and got it approved by the STC board.
• We redesigned the website.
• We issued a call for volunteers for the open positions. We are getting a group of enthusiastic volunteers together and are really looking forward into the next steps!

The current leadership team consists of:

• Membership and Marketing Manager: Dan Wilcomb
• Conference Manager: David Caruso
• Website Manager: Sean Cleary
• SIG Editor: Christina Bottomley
• Expert CMS: Scott Abel

We still have the following positions open:

• SIG Treasurer
• Various expert positions (see Charter)

Note that you don’t have to volunteer for a specific position – if you just want to do something from the list in the charter or you have your own ideas – let me know and let’s do it.

The leadership team has regular monthly calls where we coordinate our activities. Let me know if you want to participate.

Our current tasks are:

• Designing and preparing SIG activities for the STC Summit in 07.
• Developing a sponsorship model for the SIG members to participate at the conferences.
• Recruit more volunteers to cover the expert roles.
• Acquiring articles and ideas for articles both for the SIG website and for other STC publications.

Call for Articles

We’re looking for your input for articles to include on our website. Please contact christina.bottomley@gmail.com if you:

• Have a request for topics you would like to see covered.
• Are an STC (or other related group) conference presenter who would like to write an article based on your presentation.
• Have a research paper or study (professional or academic) you would like writing or editing help for the purposes of publishing on the SIG website, STC conference proceedings, Intercom, or STC Technical Communications.
• Otherwise, have information or experiences related to the SIG that you want to offer.

Thank you for any offers or suggestions. The SIG leadership team is looking forward to creating a valuable resource and publishing opportunities for members.

Thanks again!

SIG manager, Bogo Vatovec

Dr. Ian Howells, Chief Marketing Officer of Alfresco (an Open Source solution for enterprise content management) and Dan Keldsen of Delphi Group, discuss mind maps, learning how to learn, ECM, and open source strategy in this podcast.

Jeff Parks recorded the entire day at the recent Bar Camp in Ottawa Canada. The podcast is posted at http://iapodcast.blogspot.com/ In the first couple of clips there is some background conversation. The post includes time intervals for each presentation or discussion. Topics include social tagging, writing for the web,  Adobe’s new tool Flex, and more.

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/

You can see some of Time magazine’s inventions of the year for 2006: http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/

Steve Calde has an essay titled “Communicating design concepts without getting skewered” on the Cooper Web site. The article has tips on communicating the vision for a design and presenting sketches, to keep the focus on the high-level design and away from details and data.

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
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Thanks to Karen Mardahl for these links.

http://www.searchmash.com/ is a Google site.

http://www.msdewey.com/ is a novel interface, featuring a woman who speaks the results. Limited searches are supported.

Dasher is an “information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures” that can be controlled by eye-tracking for the benefit of people who can’t use their hands: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/