NEWS / COMMENTARY
Contributors, Comments, and Member Profiles: CHIFOO.org’s New Features
Those of you who have been part of the CHIFOO community for some time now may have noticed that we have been updating and—we hope—improving the CHIFOO.org Web site over the past year or so. We’ve moved Membership renewals and payments online, and reconfigured the site to allow for more timely information about our events as well as other important goings-on in the Portland tech scene and in the field of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) in general. But now we’re getting to some of the really fun stuff: featured Contributors, the ability to add reader comments to online articles, and expanded access to Member Profile information.
All of these measures have one goal in mind: Fostering better communication between members of CHIFOO and the broader community.
Contributors
To begin with, we’d like to officially welcome Evan Dickinson as our first featured Contributor. As Evan notes in his first article, he is “a Portlander and CHIFOO member who recently moved to Vancouver BC to study…
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InfoCamp 2009 Notes
A few weeks ago, I went to the InfoCamp 2009 unconference in Seattle. InfoCamp describes itself as “unconference about user experience, information architecture, user-centered design, librarianship, information management & related fields.” For those of you not familiar with an unconference, it’s a kind of conference where sessions are put on by the attendees, instead of pre-screened presenters. I had a great time at InfoCamp, and I recommend attending next year.
These are my notes, from some of the sessions I went to.
- Death to Static Wireframes
- Jing Screencasting and Information Literacy Instruction
- Designers and Business People:… READ MORE »
CHIFOO Meeting Reviewed in Oregon Business Magazine
If you weren’t able to make it hear Gretchen Anderson discuss “Making & Sharing Space: Design Success for Interaction & Industrial Designers” at the wonderful new U of O location at the White Stag Blocks, the meeting got a great writeup in an article by Kevin Manahan on the Oregon Business magazine website.
He found our audience to be “a jovial group of designers and architects” proof positive that CHIFOO members are a fun group of folks and our meetings an enjoyable way to spend the first Wednesday evening of the… READ MORE »
Interaction Design at Simon Fraser University
This is the first in a series of posts I’ll be writing for CHIFOO. I’m Evan Dickinson, a Portlander and CHIFOO member who recently moved to Vancouver BC to study interaction design at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). Before I left Portland, David Stubbs asked if I’d be willing to write about my time at SFU.
In this post, I’m going to to talk about the SIAT program at SFU – what’s in the program, why I chose it, and where I hope it will take me.
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Within the context of pervasive computing, which weaves intelligence into the fabric of our environments, architectural design informs interaction design as much as interaction design transforms architectural design. So suggests Malcolm McCullough in this extraordinarily deep dive into design theory and the impact of digital, interactive technologies on architecture.
