InfoD: IIID Vision Plus 10 (programme)

       * Vision Plus 10 * (IIID International Symposium)

         Touristic Information de Luxe - for All
         September 18-20, 2003. Lech, Vorarlberg, Austria



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



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: Moving around in real and virtual information environments
-  Paul Mijksenaar: Pictorial maps: Examples of best practice
-  Roland Krpata: Creation of a barrierfree public transport
   network
-  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 want to come again
-  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
-  Koray Duhbaci: An innovative events planner for tourists on a
   time budget
-  Christian Arabjan-Kappacher: Feeling safe even in emergencies:
   The Benefon mobile phone and its SOS button
-  Peter Lucas: A Geographical Information System for Everyone,
   The Information Commons and The Universal Database
-  Franz Heffeter: Information Design - a success factor in the
   rising competition of tourism
-  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-visionplus.net/
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