InfoD: Two InfoDesign Conferences (programmes)

      * InfoDesign Conferences * (preliminary programmes)


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        1) Information Design International Conference
           September 8-11, 2003. Recife, Brazil.
        2) Vision Plus 10 (IIID International Symposium)
           Touristic Information de Luxe - for All
           September 18-20, 2003. Lech, Vorarlberg, Austria

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1) Information Design International Conference
   September 8-11, 2003. Recife, Brazil.

The Information Design International Conference is a forum for
addressing and discussing, in considerable depth, issues
relevant to the paths and effective use of information design
for communication within a research perspective.


PROGRAMME
(http://www.ufpe.br/sbdi/conference_program.htm)

Monday, September 8:
-  Michael Twyman: keynote
-  Flavio Vinicius Cauduro: Graphic design: from monotony to
   entropy
-  Guilherme Cunha Lima & Ana Sofia Mariz: A new approach to
   Brazilian book design: the experience of the Civilizacao
   Brasileira publishing house, 1950-1960


Tuesday September 9:
-  David Sless [virtual presentation]
-  Jorge Bacelar: The raw material of information design
-  Luiz Antonio L. Coelho: Reasoning through concepts
-  Alberto Cipiniuk: The narrative form as a composition form
-  Mary C Dyson: Readers' navigation of electronic documents: how
   do we find our way around the research?
-  Silnei Scharten Soares: Orality of hypermedia narratives: a
   semiotic approach
-  Marcelo G. Ribeiro: Information and persuasion: animation as a
   weapon during the war years

Simultaneous:
-  Luciana Lopes Freire, Marcelo Marcio Soares: Application of
   usability tests in websites: The contribution of ergonomics to
   the infodesign
-  Monica Moura:  Hypermedia design: relationships between
   culture, language, transdisciplinarity and information
-  Gustavo R. Lacombe: The design of audio & video domestic
   electronics for the common user: from owner's manual to remote
   control
-  Alexandre Farbiarz, Vera Lucia Moreira dos Santos Nojima:
   Service relations in design: understanding communication before
   elaborating the instruments
-  Marcos Buccini: Moving types and their influence on legibility


Wednesday September 10:
-  Bernard Darras
-  Sue Walker: Towards a method for describing the visual
   characteristics of children's readers and information books
-  Solange Coutinho, Eva Rolim de Miranda, B=E1rbara Gomes Formiga:
   Commonalities in the drawing process of young children in
   different social and educational contexts
-  Caroline Lengert Guedes, Jorge Roberto Guedes, Alice
   Therezinha Cybis Pereira: A design approach to the primary
   school education
-  Jorge Frascara [virtual presentation]
-  Clarinda de Jesus Machado, Rita Maria Couto: Assessing
   educational software in geometry from a design standpoint
-  Carlos Klimick, Eliane Bettocchi, Rita Maria de Souza Couto:
   Interactive stories as a tool to stimulate children with
   hearing disabilities

Simultaneous:
-  Frederico Augusto Genesio Pessoa: The fight of the popular
   pamphlet against the frenetic sea of the internet: impressions
   on the graphic evolution of the 'cordel' as a folk fair pocket
   book to its websites in Google
-  Rogerio Camara: Research on writing: diagram, ideogram
-  Isabella Perrotta: Rio Official: real, imaginary or symbolic?
   A distant representation...
-  Carla G. Spinillo, Evelyn R. Azevedo, Daniel Benevides: Visual
   instructions on health: an analytical study of PPSs on using
   male and female condoms
-  Celso Pereira Guimaraes, Carlos Alberto Murad: Health in
   signage: the sign system of the UFRJ University Hospital


Thursday September 11:
-  Andrew Boag [virtual presentation]: Process and performance in
   practice with Royal Mail and utility billing
-  Heimo M=FCller, Maja Pivec: New interfaces for video browsing
   and editing
-  Rodrigo Ferreira de Carvalho, Joao Fernando Marar: Smart
   interfaces for searching tools: information design for the Web
-  Marilei Silvano Batista, V=E2nia Ribas Ulbricht, Luiz Fernando
   Figueiredo, Cl=E1udio Luiz Ferreira: Information organization and
   the implementation of a hypermedia environment focused on
   Down's syndrome information
-  Karel van der Waarde: Information for patients
-  Stephania Padovani: Usability principles for the design of
   global maps in hypertext systems
-  Priscila Lena Farias: Images, diagrams and metaphors: a
   contribution from semiotics to information design

Simultaneous:
-  Jose Ricardo Cereja: Information design for developing
   educational interface
-  Hiran Ferreira de Lira: The development of education
   interactive contents
-  Petronio A. Bendito: Teaching interactive multimedia design
   from a visual communication standpoint: curriculum and
   assessment strategies
-  Isnard Thomas Martins: Tools' ergonomics for the graphic
   reproduction of facial images: man or computer production?
-  Alessandro Guimaraes Pereira: Design contribution for
   broadening the Habermas communicative action theory


MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.ufpe.br/sbdi/conference.htm

SBDI: Information Design International Conference
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Centro de Artes e Comunicacao
Departamento de Design
Av. Academico Helio Ramos, s/n | Cidade Universitaria
Recife - PE | BRAZIL
50.670-420
Tel/fax: +558132718299
e-mail: [email protected]


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2) International Symposium: Vision Plus 10
   Tourist Information de Luxe - for All
   Creating inclusive information environments
   Making visitors want to come again

   18-20 September 2003
   Lech, Vorarlberg, Austria


THEME:
What can be easily overcome by young and able-bodied
travellers might be a real obstacle for elderly tourists.
Their number is steadily growing and so is the need to
provide for their physical impairments and disabilities.


PROGRAMME:
Thursday, September 18
Morning
-  David Quarmby: Introduction
-  Hanne Meyer-Hentschel: Business opportunities and senior
   citizens
-  David Sless: Benchmarking tourist information

Afternoon: Bricks and Tools
-  Barry Gray: Communicating across language barriers with
   pictograms
-  Silvie Perera: Insights gained from developing the Tiresias
   Typeface Family
-  Paul Nini: Typefaces in signage systems for the aging eye
-  Hisashi Aoki: Visually Supported Barrier Free Communication in
   Tachikawa City
-  Paul Mijksenaar: Pictorial Maps: Combining understanding and
   pleasure


Friday, September 19
Morning: Real information environments
-  Paul Mijksenaar: Pictorial maps: Examples of best practice
-  Roland Krpata: Creation of a barrierfree public transport
   network
-  Juergen Deuble: Live travel information en route: Making
   public transport users feel comfortable about their journey
-  Tim Metcalfe: An Accessible Chester: Promoting the Civil
   Liberties of Disabled People
-  Harpreet Seth: Dubai - A shopper's paradise and its integrated
   information system
-  Rachel Tym: Quality information which makes tourism go round

Afternoon: Virtual information environments
-  Veronika Schreyer: Strategic design development - innovative
   results
-  Franz Puehretmair: Designing Inclusive Web Sites
-  Karin Nijhuis: Building an inclusive Internet platform
-  Georg Niklfeld: Accessing tourist information on the move


Saturday, September 20
Morning: Making visitors ...
-  Christa Erhart: Designing information for elderly tourists:
   what information designers should take into consideration
-  Nadja Herzog: Caring for senior tourists
-  Martin A. O'Neill: Access guaranteed, but just how hospitable
   are we? An investigation from the Western Australia hotel
   sector
-  Annagrazia Laura: From information to servicing
-  Christian Arabjan-Kappacher: Feeling safe even in emergencies:
   The Benefon mobile phone and its SOS button

Afternoon Session: ... come again
-  Koray Duhbaci: An innovative events planner for tourists on a
   time budget
-  Peter Lucas: A Geographical Information System for Everyone,
   The Information Commons and The Universal Database
-  Franz Heffeter: Turning one-time visitors into regular
   customers
-  Rolf Homann: Future trends in tourism


MORE INFORMATION:
International Institute for Information Design (IIID),
Joergerstrasse 22/2
A-1170 Wien/Vienna, Austria, Europe.
Tel: +43 1 4036662
Fax: +43 1 4088347
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.iiid.net/
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