[Sigia-l] Call for proposals: UX Australia 2009
Donna Spencer <[email protected]>
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----------------------------------------------------------------- UX Australia 2009: Call for proposals ----------------------------------------------------------------- We are very pleased to announce the call for proposals for UX Australia 2009. The conference program for UX Australia 2009 will be based on your input, to ensure that the conference reflects current user experience practice and also reflects the types of presentations you would like to see. We are calling for proposals for main conference presentations and for pre-conference workshops. Key dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- The key dates are: * 16 Feb 2009: Call for proposals open * 29 Mar 2009: Proposals close (this is not a flexible date - we will close on midnight AEST this date) * 30 Mar 2009: Reviewing starts * 11 Apr 2009: Speakers notified * 1 May 2009: Conference registration opens (with full program available) Guiding principles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Although the conference program will be heavily based on community reviews, there are some guiding principles for the type and style of presentations at the conference. The key principle is that presentations should focus on practice, and should be grounded in experience. A presentation may be a case study about a particular project, or about something you have learned across projects. It should not be an idea you have about how something should happen, or about which you have no experience. Presentations should describe interesting problems and how you solved them. You do not need to have been successful - many lessons are better learned from failure. You also do not need to have completed a project - your presentation may be about an interesting problem within a project. Presentations may be about web projects or user experience projects in the physical world. Indeed, as we know that a lot of presentation proposals will be about web projects, we will be actively encouraging proposal from outside the web. Presentations should not be overly academic. Research findings are acceptable as long as they are, again, grounded in practice. There will be no sales pitches for products; or presentations that primarily describe a service offering of a company. Sponsors do not get an automatic right to present. Review proposals ----------------------------------------------------------------- UX Australia 2009 is a community-reviewed conference, and we need people to help with reviewing. Reviewers should have experience in some aspect of user experience design and an interest in helping us create a great program for the conference. We'll ask you to read up to 6 presentation proposals, rate according to criteria and provide constructive comment. We expect the time required will be up to 3 hours, and will be done between 29 March & 5 April. If you have time in that week, and are interested, please register via the UX Australia conference management system [http://www.conference-service.com/uxaust09/registration.cgi?lang=en] (select the box that asks about reviewing). We'll contact you in mid March to get ready. Where do I start? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Keen? Start here: * How we'll develop the UX Australia program: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009/program * Main conference presentation information: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009/program/call-for-proposals-main-conference * Pre-conference workshop information: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009/program/call-for-proposals-pre-conference-workshops * Register as a reviewer: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009/program/call-for-reviewers Thanks, Donna Spencer UX Australia ------------ IA Summit 2009: Peabody Hotel in Memphis Pre cons on March 18 and 19 Sessions on March 20, 21, 22 ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l