InfoD: Two Information Design Conferences (Call for papers)

        * Information Design Conferences *  (Call for papers)

          1) Blurring Boundaries
             (Expert Forum for Financial Communications)
             April 27, 2005. The Harvard Club, Boston (MA), USA

	 2) 2nd Information Design International Conference
             September  8-10, 2005. Sao Paulo, Brazil

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1) Blurring Boundaries (Expert Forum for Financial Communications)
    April 27, 2005. The Harvard Club, Boston (MA), USA


THEME: New Challenges in the design, delivery, and personalization
        of financial information.

TOPICS:
* How can we better educate the investing public?
* How can financial firms better serve their ever more diverse customer base?
* What is new in information visualization, charting, and diagrams?
* How can information design help represent and explain risk?
* What are the design challenges in delivering customer information
   to mobile devices and interactive home TV systems?
* How can transactional documents be vehicles for marketing
   messages and advertising?
* Why, when, and how should usability testing be incorporated
   into the design process?
* How far have we come, and how far should we go, with personalization?

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Please send a one-page proposal to the Conference Chairperson (see below) by
February 15. Your proposal must include a suggested session title, 
proposed length (20 or 40 minutes), a brief summary of the 
presentation (max. 250 words), and a short biographical note about 
the speaker (max. 100 words).
        Proposals will be reviewed by a committee consisting of IIID 
Board members. If your proposal is selected, the deadline for 
submitting the final presentation will be April 1, 2005. Speakers 
will not have to pay the conference fee. The IIID plans to publish 
the conference proceedings after the event. The published papers may 
be longer than what is presented at the conference session.

ORGANIZER: Wes Ervin (Conference Chair and Member of the IIID Board)
t: + 617-750-2444
e: [email protected]

FEE: $300

WEBSITE: 'News' on <http://www.iiid.net>http://www.iiid.net
PDF-announcement: http://www.iiid.net/PDFs/Conference.pdf (92 KB)


PLEASE NOTE: You can come to one place and attend two events!

The Financial Communications Forum (FCF) is holding its two-day 
conference at the Harvard Club, starting the very next morning. For 
more information, visit 
http://home.insightforums.com/insight/FCF_Spring_2005/index.html.

The IIID has deliberately scheduled its event to precede the FCF, so 
participants at each have the opportunity to attend the other. As an 
incentive, the FCF is offering all IIID participants a complimentary 
pass to hear the Thursday morning keynote speech by Cynthia Egan, the 
executive vice president of FMR Corp. and director of the Retirement 
Services business unit of Fidelity Personal Investments.

In addition the FCF is offering IIID members a discount to attend 
part or all of the FCF: $350 to attend the Thursday sessions 
(representing a $100 savings) or $700 to attend the whole FCF (a $450 
savings).


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2)  2nd Information Design International Conference 2005
     September  8-10, 2005. Sao Paulo, Brazil


The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for addressing
and discussing information design issues. This year the conference
will be a joint event with The 1st Brazilian Conference of
Information Design and the 2nd Information Design Student
Conference [CONGIC].


THEMES: The following themes will be discussed at the Conference:

- Education: aspects and issues regarding the role of information
design in education. Studies about information design programmes in
higher education, educational material, methods and approaches for
teaching and learning within an information design perspective are
sought.

- History and theory: historical and/or theoretical approaches and
contributions to information design. Researches on early information
design and designers, proposals of taxonomies, frameworks and models
are appreciated.

- Technology and society: aspects and issues of information design
concerning the use of technology by individuals and/or its effects on
society. Researches on topics such as human-computer interaction,
hypermedia design, broadcasting design are welcome.

- Information systems and communication: the effectiveness of
information systems in communicating messages. Investigations on
instructional design, wayfinding information, sign systems, graphic
symbols, forms design are gladly received.


CALL FOR PAPERS:
You may submit your article for presentation (a) as poster
or (b) as paper on the Conference themes. We encourage authors
to submit ongoing research in poster format.
        Papers proposals should be submitted electronically to the
Information Design International Conference 2005 at the e-mail address
[email protected]. Authors submitting proposals should follow the
guidelines for paper submission and should also fill in the paper
submission form. We look forward to receiving your proposal!

DATES:
May 2nd 2005: Deadline paper submissions
July 4th: Results of the referees' decision
July: Notification to authors

WEBSITE:
http://www.sbdi.org.br/congresso2005/html/home.html

ORGANIZATION:
SBDI - The Brazilian Society of Information Design
e: [email protected]
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