First of all, happy World Usability Day to all of you!
We’d like to invite you to the last SIGCHI.be event of 2008, on Thursday 11 December at CUO, Mediacentrum K.U.Leuven. We have a nice mix of presentations for you, from both sides of the language border, including an academic view on invisible interfaces from the LUCID lab of the Université de Liège, and a practitioner’s view on measuring KPI’s in information architecture.
Dear Fellow HCI professional,
We’d like to invite you to the eight SIGCHI.be event on Thursday, September 18th at the Namahn library in Brussels.
At this event we will conduct our annual general meeting and hold elections for officers for the following positions:
Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
After a short break, we will repeat our crowd-pleaser of last year, ‘Show and Tell’. It’s a pretty simple concept: You bring something you’d like talk about. This can be a prototype of a new product you’re working on but it might just as well be a slideshow, a book or a picture of your children. For example, last time people brought some interesting stuff to talk about:
a pattern library for websites
a diagram for mental models
smart spaces
eHealth
a cell phone study
a rather ‘intelligent’ laser pointer
Frank Gehry’s DZ Bank Building
and a lot more…
Schedule
17:00 – 17:30 Annual Meeting
17:30 – 17:45 Break
17:45 – 18:45 Show and Tell
18:45 – 19:30 Sandwiches with drinks, HCI networking
Sign up!
This is where you can sign up for the eight SIGCHI.be event: http://sigchibe.wordpress.com/events/
- SIGCHI.be members: 15 euro
- non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
The venue
Namahn library, Brussels (http://www.namahn.com/reach )
We hope to meet you there!
the SIGCHI.be board
SIGCHI.be, the Belgian professional association for Human-Computer Interaction, is proud to invite you to a presentation by Bill Verplank on ‘Sketching metaphors’.
During the first half of July, Bill Verplank is teaching at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He was found willing to address SIGCHI.be for an evening. We could only firm up this event a few days ago, which is why you are getting the invitation rather late. Sorry about that.
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As senior researcher at the CUO you conduct and lead research in the domain of usability, human-computer interaction (HCI) and user interface design, write out new national and international projects, teach guest lectures for students and professionals and coach the researchers of the CUO-team.
It’s our third event already and this time the place to be is Groep T in Leuven.
Two speakers, two different topics and plenty of opportunity to chit-chat about everything HCI (and beyond).
See you all there!
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After a successful inaugural event in October with nearly 50 attendees, SIGCHI.be continues apace with an evening of three lectures by Belgian speakers on a wide variety of HCI topics.
This next event takes place on Wednesday 20 December in the Namahn library in Brussels.
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If for some reason you would like to get in touch with the SIGCHI.BE community you can send emails to: sigchi@listserv.cc.kuleuven.be
Note that this is a temporary solution. We will make new mailinglists (e.g. for members and non-members) after the first SIGCHI.BE event. At this moment there are no actual members yet, but that does not mean that there is no community. So mail away!
Because a picture says more than a thousand words (I know, the mother of all clichés) we are in search of a good logo. So all you creative people out there, start sketching and painting. In short we are looking for a logo that…
The winner will be rewarded with a free one-year SIGCHI.BE membership.
Submissions can be sent to Hans De Mondt
With this first post we would like to welcome you all to SIGCHI.BE, the Belgian chapter of ACM’s special interest group for Computer Human Interaction. This initiative will be a platform where HCI practitioners from academia and industry meet to share knowledge and experiences.
The starting committee
