[Sigia-l] IA Summit 2008 – Call for Papers Deadline Reminder

[richard_dalton at vanguard.com]

A reminder that the submission deadline for the 2008 IA Summit in Miami is 
October 31st. The summit is a great opportunity to share your ideas on IA 
and UX, meet old friends, make new ones, network and generally have a fun 
and thought provoking time. See the summit site for full details, 
www.iasummit.org.

  Richard
  2008 IA Summit Chair

 
> The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place 
> for those interested in information architecture. The 2008
> conference will be the 9th IA Summit and will be held at the Hyatt
> Regency Hotel in Miami, Florida, USA from April 12-14 with
> pre-conference sessions from April 10-11.
> 
> The 2007 IA Summit attracted over 570 attendees with varying degrees
> of IA experience and from many related fields. Attendees are
> passionate about information architecture and user experience and
> many are actively involved in the community and the summit itself –
> over 230 of the attendees provided feedback about the event with 93%
> indicating that they would attend the summit again and 95%
> indicating they would recommend the summit to a colleague. 
> 
> This is your chance to contribute and take part! We're now calling 
> for submissions for presentations, panels, research papers,
> pre-conference workshops, posters and management track content. 
> 
> The 2008 theme of "Experiencing Information" shifts the focus back 
> to users. A user experience exists only to allow people to "do
> things" (in the broadest sense ... buying books, sharing photos with
> friends, looking something up on wikipedia, etc).
> 
> What dimensions of information do users typically experience while 
> "doing things", and how can we design information environments that
> best support these users and activities? Such dimensions might
> include:
> 
>  - Information quantity and the experience of choice (e.g. Barry 
> Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice);
> 
>  - The timing of information encounters and information use ( e.g. 
> Jared Spool – "seducible moments"); 
> 
>  - The subconscious consumption of information (e.g. BJ Fogg – 
> Persuasive Technology); 
> 
>  - Rapid or intuitive processing of information (e.g. Malcolm 
> Gladwell – Blink); 
> 
>  - The social and participatory aspects of information and 
> information communities (e.g. David Weinberger's work);
> 
>  - The wide range of information media: the Web, virtual worlds, 
> ubiquitous computing, mobile technology, physical
> spaces (e.g. Joshua Prince-Ramus' and Michael Bierut's work)
> 
> Proposals can address core IA principles, emerging trends and 
> technologies, the management of IA or UX teams, or the business of
> IA. We are also interested in cross-disciplinary contributions to
> the practice of IA from related fields such as library science,
> user experience, interaction design, and user centered design. 
> 
> We encourage submissions from practitioners, managers, academics, 
> and students. We also enjoy hearing from developers, business
> analysts, and others who work with information architects and/or
> information architecture. 
> 
> For more information, details about submission procedures and 
> deadlines please see the summit website, www.iasummit.org.
> 
>     Richard Dalton
>     2008 IA Summit Chair
> 

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