Upcoming Events
by Joey Elyacy
TUESDAY SOCIAL NIGHT
Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.
Hotel DeAnza lounge
http://www.hoteldeanza.com/
Tuesday night means strong drinks at Hotel DeAnza! Students generally head over to the hotel lounge around 8:30 p.m. after ISE 217. Please join us to talk shop, complain about end-of-semester projects, or just hang out for fun! Call Jamie Kravitz at 323-646-8579 to confirm before heading over.
BAYCHI MEETING
Tuesday, May 10, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
PARC Auditorium, Palo Alto, CA
http://www.baychi.org/program/
During this meeting, Scott Berkun, a project management and product design consultant, will speak on “What To Do When Things Go Wrong: Saving Design Train Wrecks.” We’ve all been on projects where bad things happen, or where decisions are made, despite our protests, that we know will lead to disaster. But what can be done? How can teams recover from big mistakes? This talk looks at the organizational, political, and process failures that lead to design disasters, and focuses on ways to both avoid and recover from tough project challenges. The speaker encourages you to bring your own stories of tough projects, and to share your experiences in trying to save them, or in running for cover.
UPA 2005
June 27 - July 1
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.upassoc.org/conferences_and_events/upa_conference/2005/
The 2005 International UPA Conference will take place June 27 - July 1, 2005 at The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The theme for this year’s annual conference is “Bridging Cultures.” Come together to celebrate usability in the research, design, and testing of hardware, software, documents, and commercial products. It is about understanding your own values and how values differ in other cultures or even just in other people within your culture. Once you are able to honor and recognize your differences, you can begin to act upon the similarities and embrace the diversity that multi-cultural companies, teams and projects provide. Build a cultural bridge for your team by recognizing the strength that diversity provides.
HCI INTERNATIONAL 2005
July 22 - 27
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
http://www.hci-international.org/
HCI International 2005, and its affiliated conferences, provides an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI, usability, internationalization, virtual reality, universal access, and cognitive ergonomics. There will be six modes of communication: plenary presentation, parallel sessions, demonstration and poster sessions, tutorials, exhibitions and meetings of special interest groups. The six-day conference will start with three days of tutorials. The tutorials will begin on Friday, 22 July 2005. A total of 26 tutorials will be offered (both half-day and full-day) at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels covering the entire spectrum of the 9 tracks and 7 conferences.
