[Sigia-l] NYC-CHI 29 Jan, 6-8PM: Antenna Design Case Studies/NYC Subway Vending Machines

[Scott Weiss]

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NYC CHI's NEXT MEETING: 
Wednesday, 29 January, 6-8PM; program starts at 6:30PM
Antenna Design: Case Studies, including the NYC Subway Ticket Vending
Machines
Location: TechSpace, 41 East 11th Street between University Place and
Broadway 
-FREE- 
NO RSVP required. However, this event WILL fill up. Please arrive early
to get a seat.

Topic: 
The speakers will discuss the notion of designing behavior, which is a
central element of design practice for information technology-infused
objects and environments. They will present a series of their projects
ranging from ticket vending machines to responsive environments in both
public and personal spaces.

Speakers: 
Masamichi Udagawa, Antenna Design
Sigi Moeslinger, Antenna Design

About Antenna
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger founded Antenna Design in 1997.
Antenna's mission is to make the experience of technologically enhanced
objects and environments more meaningful and exciting. Antenna's
user-centered design approach, incorporating rapid prototyping and user
involvement, helps understand human behavior, which is particularly
important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology.  

In the public sector Antenna designed two new fleets of subway cars for
New York City, the first of which has started public service in July of
2000. Antenna has also designed hardware and screen-interface for
various automated ticket vending machines for the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority of New York.

Antenna's clients include: IBM, Sony, Palm, Fujitsu, Nike, Haagen-Dazs,
Nissan, Verizon, Bloomberg, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New
York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Railroad, The Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey, Steelcase, Orix, Walker Art
Center, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the University of
California at Irvine.

Biographies
Masamichi Udagawa
Masamichi graduated from Chiba University in Japan, then joined the
Yamaha Product Design Laboratory in 1987. There he designed electronic
musical instruments, including the award winning YS200 synthesizer.
After receiving his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1991, he worked
at Emilio Ambasz Design Group in New York. From 1992 to 1995 Masamichi
was a senior designer at Apple Computer Industrial Design Group in
Cupertino, CA, where he designed a number of products such as the
PowerBook 5300/3400 series. He was also working closely with Apple's
research laboratory, Advanced Technology Group, on research projects
addressing novel user experiences. From 1995 to 1997, he ran a New York
satellite studio of Ideo Product Development. Masamichi is the recipient
of numerous design awards including IDEA Gold Awards, ID Magazine's
Best-of-Category and First Prize of Japan's Good Design Award. He
teaches user-centered design process at New York University's
Interactive Telecommunications Program as an Associate Professor.

Sigi Moeslinger
After studying industrial design in Austria, Switzerland and the US,
Sigi graduated from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, then joined
Ideo Product Development in San Francisco in 1991. There, she worked on
projects for clients such as NEC, Matsushita and GM/Hughes. The work
included development of new corporate product design languages,
user-centered design for consumer products and future scenarios for new
technology products. After receiving a Masters from New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 1996, Sigi worked
as an Interval Research Fellow at NYU and at Interval in Palo Alto. Sigi
has received many design awards including IDEA Gold & Silver Awards, ID
Magazine Awards and a German IF Award. Her experimental projects have
been featured at various venues like the Digitale in Cologne, Germany,
the CHI conference in Atlanta, and the Thread Waxing Space in New York
City. She is also an Associate Professor at New York University's
Interactive Telecommunications Program teaching interaction design.

Moderated by Scott Weiss, Principal of Usable Products Company and NYC
CHI Chair

See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi for additional details!  

Many thanks to TechSpace for hosting this event.  

NYC CHI Officers:  
Scott Weiss - Chair  
Maria Moratis - Vice Chair
Fleur Levitz - Information Chair 
Don Bialer - Program Chair 
Shan Chun - Secretary   

Please check our website for more information and mailing list signups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi  

NO RSVP required. However, this event WILL fill up. Please arrive early
to get a seat.


Scott Weiss
Principal, Usable Products Company: usableproducts.com (212.929.8599)
Author, "Handheld Usability": handheldusability.info