From ctuckley at hotmail.com Wed Oct 1 15:01:28 2014 From: ctuckley at hotmail.com (Carrianne Tuckley) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:01:28 -0400 Subject: [Sigia-l] DEADLINE EXTENDED -- Call for Speakers, World IA Day 2015, Kent, Ohio In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting:DEADLINE EXTENDEDKent State University will join 37 other cities around the globe as a World IA Day site on Feb. 21, 2015. The User Experience Design program in the School of Library and Information Science will serve as host of the free local event, inviting students, alumni and other interested individuals to participate.Presentation proposals are now being accepted. Please submit a completed proposal form no later than Oct. 15, 2014, by email to ctuckley at hotmail.com.All presentations will be delivered in 45-minute sessions: 30-minute presentation, 15-minute Q&A. World IA Day Notification of acceptance for presentations will be made by Nov. 7, 2014. Once selected, presenters are responsible for their own expenses related to the conference, including but not limited to lodging, transportation and meals. (Breakfast pastries and lunch will be provided the day of the conference.)Get more details and download an application form here:http://bit.ly/KentState-WAID2015Carrianne TuckleyUser Experience Designer - Westfield InsuranceCity Leader - World IA Day 2015 Kent, Ohio From mephitis.skunk at gmail.com Wed Oct 8 14:52:32 2014 From: mephitis.skunk at gmail.com (Michael Albers) Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:52:32 -0400 Subject: [Sigia-l] Last call -- CFP Symposium on Communicating Complex Information Message-ID: <543587F0.1030907@gmail.com> Last call for proposals. Due for proposals is Oct 15. 4th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) February 23-24, 2015 East Carolina University Greenville NC For the full call for papers: http://workshop.design4complexity.com/ Building on the success of the previous three conferences,the Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect complex information, information design, information architecture, user experience, and usability. It seeks to examine how design and content choices influence people?s behavior when interacting with complex information, and how the knowledge of situational context improves the design of complex information systems. SCCI fosters an integrated approach to the design of complex information by bringing together members from a range of research and practitioner communities. Keynote address: Lisa Meloncon, University of Cincinnati For more information Contact: Michael Albers (albersm at ecu.edu). Schedule 2 page proposal due: October 15, 2014 Notice of acceptance: December 1, 2014 Papers for symposium due: February 15, 2015 Symposium dates: February 23?24, 2015 This symposium sponsored in part by East Carolina University ACM SIGDOC