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2004

7-10 January 2004: BETT 2004
Venue: Olympia Grand and National Halls, London
ICT in education.
http://www.bettshow.com/

27 November - 18 January 2004: The Office
Venue: The Photographer's Gallery, 5 & 8 Great Newport Street, London (off Charing Cross Road)
No, not the TV series, but an exhibition bringing together the work of 11 artists, alongside historical photographs, to explore the changing dynamics of office life and culture.
http://www.photonet.org.uk/programme/current/metinides/metinides.html

14 January 2004: RSA - 'Getting the law out of the way'
Speaker: Lawrence Lessig (Stanford University)
Time: 6pm
Venue: Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2 (near Charing Cross)
Emily Bell of The Guardian interviews Lawrence Lessig on the subject of "how 20th century models of copyright will defeat the creative potential of digital technology and how a different set of ideas are needed soon".
Charge: tickets are free but you have to register on the website.
http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/detail.asp?EventID=1423

Thursday 22 January 2004: Usability Professionals' Association
Speakers: Jarnail Chudge (Microsoft User Experience Programme Manager) and Angela Sasse and Jens Riegelsberger (University College London)
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Tuesday 27 January 2004: MPs and blogging
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Grand Committee Room, Westminster Hall, London
A public event organised by The Hansard Society
http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/node/view/103

28-29 January 2004: Learning Technologies 2004
Venue: Olympia Two, London
Exhibition and conference.
http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/conference/conference.cfm

29 January 2004: AIGA Experience Design
'The future of user interfaces, 20 years after the Mac'
This event is now fully booked.

11 February 2004: New Media Knowledge
'Conducting Online Research'
Speakers: John Hondros and Suzi Bentley of Radiant Digital and Rich Alexandre of Survey Shack
Time: 6pm
Venue: 100 Park Village East, London NW1 3SR
Nearest Stations: Mornington Crescent, Euston
Charge: £20
http://www.nmk.co.uk/events_diary/events.cfm?ItemID=4980

18 February 2004: BCS SocioTech group
'The Collaborative Workplace: Fact or Fiction?'
Speaker: Brenda Elshaw, IBM
Venue: Cayley Lecture Theatre, Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road, London (opposite Baker Street tube)
Time: 6pm
Charge: free
'For some time now, working methods have been set for change. Employees no longer expect to meet all their colleagues face to face. The huge take up of broadband/wireless technologies have enabled individuals to communicate fast and effectively wherever they are sited.
Supporting technologies now exist to allow people to work together as if they were in the same room. This session looks at the workplace environment that can be provided by many leading edge employers and asks how effective these solutions can be and how they impact the individual.
What is the art of the possible and what are we sacrificing by taking this route?'
http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm

Thursday 19 February 2004: Usability Professionals' Association
Subject: Eye-tracking equipment
Speakers include Jon Dodd of Bunnyfoot
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Monday 23 February 2004: ConCon UK
Speakers: UK speakers who spoke at the ETcon conference in San Diego this year
Time: 6.30pm
Venue, Dover Castle pub, Weymouth Mews (near Oxford Circus), London
http://wiki.oreillynet.com/etech/hosted.conf?ConConUK

Tuesday 24 February 2004: UCLIC Seminar
Speaker: Professor Wendy Hall CBE, President of the British Computer Society
Time: 2pm
Venue: Interaction Room, 4th Floor, Remax House, 31/32 Alfred Place, London
http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/seminars/index.html

26 February 2004: NMK - Managing Online Communities
Speaker: Lizzie Jackson (BBC)
Time: from 10am
Venue: Venue: 100 Park Village East, London NW1 3SR
Nearest Stations: Mornington Crescent, Euston
Charge: £250 (£200 discount rate for NGOs, freelancers and small firms)
A one-day introductory course.
http://www.nmk.co.uk/news/News.cfm?ItemID=4847

Friday 27 February 2004: LSE anthropology seminar series
'Social, Spatial and temporal frameworks for everyday work and life'
Speakers include Melissa Fisher from Columbia University
Time: full day seminar, from 11.30am
Venue: LSE
Charge: free, registration required
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/worklife/sixseminars.htm

Thursday 4 March 2004: Ergonomics Society one-day conference - The Commercial Benefits of Ergonomics
Venue: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Charge: Ergonomics Society Members: £250 + VAT; Non-members: £340 + VAT
Further information: http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/events/1DC0304.htm

Monday 15 March 2004: Usability Professionals' Association
Theme: 'Children are users too'
Speakers: Jon Pettigrew and Ella Tallyn
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Wednesday 17 March 2004: BCS SocioTech group - 'The dark side of KM'
Speaker: Professor Frank Land, LSE
Time: 6pm
Venue: Cayley Lecture Theatre, Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road, London (opposite Baker Street tube)
Charge: free
http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm

Thurday 18 March 2004: Cambridge Univeristy
'Why Internet Voting is Insecure: A case study'
Speaker: Barbara Simons
Time: 4.15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, William Gates Building, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

The U.S. Department of Defense had been planning to run an Internet-based voting "experiment" called SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment) for the 2004 presidential primaries and general election. In order to evaluate the security of SERVE, a group of computer scientists were asked to review the program. On Jan. 21, 2004 four members of the review panel, including the speaker, produced a report, available at www.servesecurityreport.org, that analyzed the security risks of SERVE and called for SERVE to be shut down. On Feb. 3, 2004, the Department of Defense cancelled SERVE.

In this talk, Barbara will discuss the security problems with Internet voting in general and SERVE in particular. If time permits, she will also discuss some vulnerabilities of other forms of voting such a paperless touch screen machines.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Seminars/

Friday 19 March 2004: Oxford Internet Institute - Security and the Politics of e-Voting Research
Speaker: Barbara Simons
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1
Charge: free
Booking essential: please email the Events Office (events@oii.ox.ac.uk)
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=seminars/20040319

Monday 22 March 2004: Interaction Designers London Meet 01
Topic: "Language!"
Time: 6.00-7.30pm
Venue: Creative Space at Bush House BBC in London

The first London face to face meeting of Interaction Designers as defined by interactiondesigners.com.
Please RSVP your name via clifton at infostyling dot com.

Flyer for the event: http://interactiondesigners.com/IDinLondon.pdf

Part 1// Interaction Design is Language Design
by Marc Rettig
"I recently gave this talk at Interaction Design Institute
Ivrea. It argues that when we do interaction design, we are creating
the language which people will need to use if they want to converse
with a product. This isn't a metaphor, it's really what's going on.
Building on this linguistic point of view, I suggest how this might
effect our process and tools."

Case Study: product strategy and interaction design for medical software
This short case study (a version of it was published in the last DUX
proceedings) describes how a small team translated hasty user research
into the
design for a commercial software product for use in hospitals. Emphasis
on tools, techniques, tradeoffs, facilitation and communication.

Marc Rettig's CV: www.marcrettig.com/rettig_cv.pdf
Marc's publication list: www.marcrettig.com/rettig_pub_list.pdf

Part 2// Thread Discussion
We will also have a real-world discussion on the recent language
oriented topic which was discussed on the ID list in the following
threads: "Role of IxD in Open Source" and "OSD (Open Source Design)".
We're going to talk about how we may be able to distribute Pattern
Languages, Design Patterns or Design Code.

22-24 March 2004: 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology
Venue: Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Charge: from £250 - see website for details
Details: http://rehab-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/cwuaat/cwuaat04.htm

25-27 March 2004: Dust or Magic Conference
Time: 2.5 full days, from Thursday morning 8.30am
Venue: Wadham College, Oxford

'DUST OR MAGIC' is a conference about how people do 'good stuff' with computers: games, hypertexts, web sites, interfaces, software tools. It's for everyone who's seriously concerned about the fate of creative work and creative workers in the 'new-media' workplace. We talk about software and hardware, design, industry economics, workplace politics, psychology, each others' work, and the practicalities of making things that delight, as well as making a living.

This year's speakers include Ted Nelson, Aleen Stein, William Donelson, Sue Thomas, Alan Snow, Mark Schlichting, Tim Wright and Louise Ferguson.

Details: http://emedia.brookes.ac.uk/dustormagic/

Monday 29 March 2004: AIGA Experience Design
Speakers: David Small and John Rothenberg of Cambridge, MA's Small Design Firm
Time: 6.30 for 7pm
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London
Details: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=edlondon
RSVP essential

Wednesday 31 March: NMK - User Centred Design and Beyond
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: PSI Conference Centre, 100 Park Village East, London NW1 3SR
Charge: £20
http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/03/31/ucd

31 March-2 April 2004: Second European Conference on Interactive Television
Venue: central Brighton
Charge: likely to be around £200
Organised by the University of Brighton.
http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/lp22/euroitv2004/index.html

31 March-2 April 2004: Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through communication
Venue: Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, East Sussex
Contact Peter Day: p.day at btinternet dot com
Further information: http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/images/cnconf.doc

15-16 April: UCLIC Workshop - Effective ways to use non-personal information in healthcare
Time: Full 2-day event
Venue: Old Refectory Room, UCL Wilkins Building, Gower Street quad
Organised by: UCLIC
Charge: free
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Attfield/workshop

15-17 April: British Psychological Society annual conference
Venue: Imperial College, London
Charge: see BPS website
Further details: http://www.bps.org.uk/events/ac2004/index.cfm
Speakers include Margaret Boden and Rose Luckin from the University of Sussex, both speaking about creativity and computers.

Monday 19 April: Ubiconf 2004, Ubiquitous computing workshop
Time: full day event
Venue: Gresham College, Holborn, London
Charge: free, registration required
http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/projects/ubiconf/

Tuesday 20 April - UCL CASA Lecture: Digitally Mediated Urban Space - Lessons for Design
Speaker: Anthony Townsend, Adjunct Professor of Communications and Urban Planning at New York University
Time: 5-6pm
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre at 1-19 Torrington Place, London
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/lectures/index.htm

Wednesday 21 April: Oxford Internet Institute
Technology at Work: Some Perspectives from Research
Speaker: Professor Wanda Orlikowski (Sloan School of Management)
Time: 12.30-2pm
Venue: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Orlikowski is the author of a now-classic paper on the implementation of ICTs in the workplace, Learning from Notes. This talk will be of particular interest to those involved in qualitative research into technology at work.

Wednesday 21 April: Music Retail: Dying or Diversifying?
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Venue:The Red Room, Bertorelli's, 11-13 Frith Street, Soho, London, W1D 4RB
Charge: £20
'With music retail in a technology-fuelled blizzard, this think tank gathers key players to see through the storm.'
http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/04/21/music-retail

Thursday 22 April: Usability Professionals' Association
Localisation and internationalisation
Speakers:
- Richard Ishida from W3C's Internationalization Working Group
- Ben Luff, usability consultant from System Concepts
- Caroline Jarrett, founder and principal of Effortmark (also chairing the
event)
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students

Event blurb:
Cultural and language differences can have a major impact on the success of
a product in different countries. But ensuring usability in international
projects is not easy. Nor is justifying and organising effective
international usability research.
Topics:
- The latest thinking on internationalisation/localisation issues
- Perspectives on what aspects of internationalisation/localisation really
matters for a successful project
- How the W3C is working in the area
- How to manage internationalisation in a project
- How plan and execute international usability research
.... and whatever else YOU want to know. Bring your questions along.

Thursday 29 April: Cybersalon
Subject: Mobile Futures
Time: 7-10.30pm
Venue: Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HE
Charge: free
Further information
'Cybersalon continues its residency at new regular venue the Dana Centre with an exploration of the ramifications for culture and society of developments in wireless and mobile technology.'

Thursday 6 May: Bunnyfoot - Impact and implications of DRC findings
Time: 9.30am or 1.30pm
Venue: Tate Britain, London
Charge: £50
Bunnyfoot Universality is holding a half day seminar about the impact and
implications of the DRC's recent formal investigation into the accessibility
of UK websites.
Includes a case study by Alison Rawlings from egg (one of the five sites
of 1000 to be awarded a prize for accessibility and client of Bunnyfoot),
expert legal advice from Struan Robertson from OutLaw.com as well as
analysis by Dr Jon Dodd who is widely regarded as the UK's leading online
accessibility expert.
Further information: http://www.bunnyfoot.com/access/

Monday 10 May: AIGA Experience Design
Subject: Interactive television
Looking at the design of EPGs (electronic programme guides), and of news and other information services, design research for iTV, social context and heuristics of use, evaluation of designs, and future design challenges. Presentations from designers at BSkyB and BBC New Media Central.
Also report back from TED 2004 (Max Gadney)
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London
RSVP essential
Information: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=edlondon

Monday 10 May: Digital Storytelling
Speakers: Daniel Meadows, BBC Capture Wales; Rupert Creed, BBC Telling Lives; Gilly Adams, BBC Wales Writers' Unit; Chris Mohr, Consultant and Trainer
Time: 6-8.30pm
Venue: BAFTA, Piccadilly, London
Charge: £20
Information: http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/05/10/digital-stories
'Multimedia sonnets from the people'?

Wednesday 12 May: London Bloggers get-together
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
See and contribute to the planning wiki

Wednesday 12 May: BCS SocioTech group
Personalities for Systems Development
Speaker: Michelle Young, Sunderland University
Venue: Cayley Lecture Theatre, Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road, London (opposite Baker Street tube)
Time: 6pm
Charge: free
http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm

Wednesday 19 May: UCL CASA Lecture - Urban infoscapes: research in progress at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
Speaker: Carlo Ratti
Time: 5-6pm
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre at 1-19 Torrington Place, London
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/lectures/index.htm

Thursday 20 May: Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Subject: Copyright versus Community
Speakers: an all-star line-up, including Cory Doctorow (eff.org) and Richard Stallman (FSF, founder of GNU project, and stallman.org)
Time: from 2pm
Venue: Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, Walden Road, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5SN (nearest BR: Elstead Woods/Chislehurst)
Charge: free
Event blurb: "Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
"The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other direction."
More information: http://cubicgarden.com/copyright/

Thursday 20 May: Usability Professionals' Association
Careers Event
Speakers: to be announced
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Thursday 27 May: NMK - Managing Online Communities
Speaker: Lizzie Jackson, Editor, Commmunities, BBC
Time: full-day course
Venue: Policy Studies Institute, 100 Park Village East, London, NW1 3SR
Charge: see NMK website
A one-day course providing an introduction to building, managing and moderating online communities. Presented in association with Emint.
http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/

Thursday 27 May: Dana Centre Cybersalon - Artificial Intelligence
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HE
Charge: free, but places must be booked: tickets@datacentre.org.uk
..."Our fascination with 'thinking machines'. Is this nothing more than a science fantasy left over from the Cold War? Or are the latest advances in computing about to realise this dream?"

Sunday 6 June: NotCon '04
Time: 11am-6pm
Venue: Imperial College Union
Blurb: 'NOTCON '04 is an informal, low-cost, one-day conference looking at things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do.'
http://www.xcom2002.com/nc04/cfp.php

Monday 14 June: Usability Professionals' Association
Usability for Fun
Speakers: Andy Lloyd, Science Museum (to be confirmed)
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft London, Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London W1
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Wednesday 16 June: In Touch seminars
Seminar 1: Supporting social networks: design and evaluation of social software
Seminar 2: Impact of Voice over IP on the online game experience
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC (central London)
Charge: £125 per seminar
In Touch is a collaborative project between the Interact Lab at the Univesity of Sussex, BT/Chimera and Victoria Real.
Further information: Linda Kennedy, CASA, University of Sussex - l.e.kennedy at sussex.ac.uk

Monday 21 June: Designing for Total Customer Experience
Design and Evaluation of E-Commerce Environments for the Total Customer Experience
Time: One-day workshop (9:30 a.m. start)
Venue: Michael Young Building, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
http://mcs.open.ac.uk/exploring_total_customer_experience/

Tuesday 22 June: RED/D-futures: Touching the State
Time: 6.30-9pm
Venue: Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk

Wednesday 23 June: AIGA Experience Design London
Subject: Architecture and urban space in a digital world
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm
Venue: Oyster Partners, 1 Naoroji Street, London WC1X 0JD
Presentations from Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith and Steve Evans from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL; Craig Riley, Casson Mann, and Hannah Redler, Science Museum London; Presentation: Digital Shelters (Pedro Sepúlveda Sandoval); Urban Tapestries [to be confirmed] NOTE CHANGED VENUE
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=edlondon

Monday 28 June: Doug Engelbart - POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS
Time: 3pm
Venue: UCLIC, Remax House, Alfred Place, London WC1
"Not only did Doug Engelbart invent the mouse, probably his best known achievement: he also invented what we today call word processing, email and much more...."
http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/seminars/Engelbart.html
http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/

Thursday 8 July: ASA Network of Applied Anthropologists
Time: 7pm
Venue: north London (Hampstead)
Email Kathryn at appanth 'at' theasa.org for directions.

Tuesday 13 July: Usability Professionals' Association - Design in Emerging Markets
Speaker: Apala Lahiri Chavan
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: UCLIC, Remax House, Alfred Place, London WC1
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

15-16 July: Wireless World Conference 2004
Venue: Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Charge: conference fee - see site for details
Call for papers: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/

Monday 19 July: Political Blogs - Craze or Convention?
Speakers include Jonathan Briggs of Re-engage
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London SW1
Entry by invitation: contact edemocracy at hansard.lse.ac.uk for further information

Wednesday 21 July: IPPR launch of Public Value and Electronic Service Delivery, Public Value and eHealth
Time:6.30pm
Venue: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1
http://www.ippr.org.uk/events/

Thursday 22 July: Usability Professionals' Association
Speaker: Pat Jordan, author of Designing Pleasurable Products
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft, Great Pultney Street, London (off Brewer Street in Soho)
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Wednesday 28 July: IPPR launch of Manifesto for a Digital Britain
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm
Venue: Mishcon de Reya, Summit House, Red Lion Square, London WC1
Will include a few words from Stephen Timms MP and Stephen Coleman (OII).
http://www.ippr.org.uk/events/

Thursday 29 July: iSociety - Shrinking the Net
Time: 5.45pm
Venue: The Work Foundation, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
Launch of the latest iSociety publication, accompanied by a debate. Speakers include Bill Thompson (general technologist-about-town and iSociety associate), Will Davies (the author), Stephen Coleman (OII), Matt Locke (BBC) and Chris Yap (Microsoft).
See Will's post on the iSociety blog for more info.

Monday 16 August: Usability Professionals' Association
'Where is our industry going?' and summer social
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Microsoft Great Pultney Street, London (off Brewer Street in Soho)
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
Giles Colborne plays Kilroy in an event designed to see sparks fly.
Further information: http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Wednesday 25 August: UCLIC - John Knight (User-Lab, Birmingham) - to be confirmed
Time: 2 pm
Venue: UCLIC, Interaction Room, 4th Floor, Remax House, 31/32 Alfred Place, London (east of Tottenham Court Road)
Further information: http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/seminars/index.html

Tuesday 31 August: Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia
Time: 7.10 pm
Venue: Oyster Partners, 1 Naoroji Street, London
Charge: free
Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia.org, discusses wikipedia.org, its mission, running a public wiki, online communities, edit wars...
Further information: http://www.minty.org/cgi-bin/wp/wiki.pl?HomePage
(Thanks to Dave at NTK for the info)

Thursday 2 September: Anthrodesign London dinner
Time: meet from 6-6.30 pm?
Venue: Freemason Arms, 81-82 Long Acre, LONDON, WC2E 9NG (Covent Garden).
For anyone interested in the intersection of anthropology or ethnography with design.
Further information - Anthrodesign discussion group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anthrodesign/

Friday 3 September: DIGRA - Researching User Engagements with Technology
Time: 9 am - 5.30 pm
Venue: Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ
Charge: free
A Digital Games Research Association workshop to discuss "research into engaging, entertaining, and otherwise positive user experiences with technologies such as personal devices, videogames, mobile telephones, public access systems".
Further information: http://www.digra.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20040730120713254

Tuesday 7 September: NMK - Copywriting for Digital Media
Time: full-day course
Venue: PSI Conference Centre, 100 Park Village East, Camden Town, London NW1 3SR; nearest tube station: Mornington Crescent
Charge: see website
Further information:
http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/09/07/copywriting

Tuesday 7 September: NMK - The Great Viral Marketing Debate
Time: 6pm-9pm
Venue: PSI Conference Centre, 100 Park Village East, Camden Town, London NW1 3SR; nearest tube station: Mornington Crescent
Charge: see website
Further information:
http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/09/07/viral-marketing

Thursday 9 September: OII - Internet Governance in the UK
Speaker: Professor Richard Collins, Open University
PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 21 OCTOBER
Further information:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=seminars/20040909

Thursday 9 September: AIGA Experience Design - The Inspiring Art of Film Title Design
Speaker: David Peters, Design Films, San Francisco
Time: 6.30 pm for 7 pm (ends 9 pm)
Venue: Oyster Partners, 1 Naoroji Street, London WC1X 0JD
Charge: free
Blurb from Nico Macdonald:
Flash and Dynamic HTML have made dynamic type (and form) possible in digital media. On the Web we have progressed beyond the Flash splash page (and its essential 'skip intro' button) but creative work has largely focused on interactive ads. Interactive TV has exploited dynamic text and graphics for presenting information, but not for their experiential possibilities. Film titles represent the combination of graphic design with the new media of the twentieth century. What we can learn from the design of film titles about the possibilities of type and movement in the new media of the twenty-first century? About the combination of image, movement and sound? Creating richness and engagement? Capturing an idea and creating 'an emblematic image'? Experience design has much to learn from the development and accomplishments of early modern and contemporary film title designers, and the inspiring stories of pioneering figures such as Saul Bass.
Further information: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=edlondon

Thursday 9 September: IPPR - What Makes a World Class e-Government?
Speakers: Michelle D'Auray (former CIO to th Canadian Federal Government), Marcus Robinson, Graham Walker, Derek Ward, Will Davies (chair).
Time: 5.15 pm for 5.30 pm - 7 pm
Venue: Wilson Room, Portcullis House, Westminster, London
A panel event to discuss visions for UK e-Government beyond 2005.
Further information: http://www.ippr.org.uk/home/

15-16 September: Userfocus - Web Usability
Time: 2-day course
Venue: London
Charge: see website
A two-day training course providing tools and knowledge to incorporate usability into web development projects.
Further information: http://www.userfocus.co.uk/training/webusability.html

Friday 17 September: BlogWalk 4.0
Time: 10 am to 5.30 pm
Venue: central London
A get together for blogging researchers and practitioners.
For further information: http://blogwalk.mediapedagogy.com/BlogWalkVenues/BlogWalk4

19-22 September: AoIR 2004 Conference
Venue: University of Sussex campus, Falmer, Brighton
Charge: see website
The Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference comes to Merry England. This year's theme is 'ubiquity'.
Further information: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cce/aoir/

Monday 20 September: Usability Professionals' Association
Website accessibility panel
Speakers:
Helen Petrie, Professor of Human Computer Interaction, Centre for HCI Design at City University, and the Disability Rights Commission
Allison Tynan, Consultant at usability consultancy System Concepts
Leonie Watson, Nomensa, Head of accessibility, and Chairman of UA-WG
(screen reader user)
Kath Moonan, Poptel Technology
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft Great Pultney Street, London (off Brewer Street in Soho)
Further information: http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Blurb:
As the Disability Rights Commission steps up the intensity of its campaigns,
organisations are focussing their attention and resources on accessibility.
This intensive briefing will give you key knowledge and experience in web
accessibility:
* An overview of the DRC's strategy for enforcing website accessibility
* First hand experience of web accessibility issues from a regular screen reader user
* Tips and recommendations about how to conduct effective accessibility testing
* Insights into how to make the implementation of accessible web pages run as smoothly as possible.
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
Further information: http://www.ukupa.org.uk

Monday 20 September: Royal Institution - The Ingredients of Language
Speaker: Prof Stephen Pinker
Time: 7 pm - 8.30 pm
Venue: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Charge: £8.00 for non-members, £5 concessions
Further information: http://www.rigb.org/rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=74

20-21 September: World Creative Forum
Speakers: many, including John Thackara (Doors of Perception), Deborah Jaffe (design historian), but maybe not quite up to last year's line-up
Time: Monday pm and Tuesday full day
Venue: Congress House, Great Russell Street, London
As part of the London Design Festival.
Further information: http://www.worldcreativeforum.com/site.html

Tuesday 21 September: Dana Centre Cybersalon - e-democracy or e-hypocrisy?
Time: 6.30 pm - 9 pm
Venue: Dana Centre (Science Museum), 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HE
Charge: free, but booking essential
Further information

Thursday 23 September: Royal Institution - From Chemistry to Catwalk
Speakers: Sandy Black (Reader in Fashion and Textiles and Post- Graduate Co-ordinator, London College of Fashion), Dr Frances Geesin (Senior Research Fellow, London College of Fashion), and Philip Delamore (Senior Research Fellow, London College of Fashion). Chaired by Baroness Susan Greenfield (Director of the RI).
New technologies being used in the fashion industry.
Time: 7 pm - 8.30 pm
Venue: Royal Institution, London
Charge: £8 for non-members, £5 concessions
Further information: http://www.rigb.org/rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=76

From September: 1010 Festival
A festival celebrating the British new media industry.
Organised/co-ordinated by New Media Knowledge.
Events held at Dana Centre, Science Museum, London.
Further information: http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/10/06/1010-festival

20-30 September: London Design Festival
Venues across London.
Further information: http://www.londondesignfestival.com/

Wednesday 29 September: RSA Japan Society Lecture - Reputation, branding and design: fresh perspectives from the UK and Japan
Speaker: Panel including Prof Toshio Wanatabe, Head of Research, Chelsea College of Art & Design
Time: 6 pm
Venue: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Charge: free
Further information and booking: http://www.rsa.org.uk/events/detail.asp?EventID=1559

Wednesday 29 September: Exploiting Social Networks in Organisations
Time: full-day conference
Venue: Novotel London West, Hammersmith, London
Further information

Monday 4 October: Creative Commons UK launch
Speaker Prof. Larry Lessig, Stanford
Time: 12 pm-2 pm
Venue: Edward Lewis Theatre, Windeyer Building, UCL, Cleveland Street,
London W1
RSVP to Ian Brown: I dot Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk

Thursday 10 October: OII - Internet Governance in the UK
Speaker: Professor Richard Collins, Open University
Time: 12.30-2pm
Venue: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS
Postponed from 9 September
Further information:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaboration/?rq=seminars/20040909

Tuesday 12 October: Royal Institution - Science meets politics
Speakers: Ian Gibson MP (Chair, House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology), Julia Goodfellow (Chief Executive, BBSRC), Baroness Susan Greenfield (Director of the Ri), Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger (author and Life Peer) and Lord Oxburgh (Chair, House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee).
Time: 6.30 - 8.30 pm
Venue: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Charge: £8 for non-members, £5 concessions
Further information: http://www.rigb.org/rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=86

Wednesday 13 October: BCS SocioTechnical Group - E-democracy
Speaker: Tony Fleming (London Borough of Lewisham)
Time: 6 pm - 7.30 pm
Venue: Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road
(opposite Baker Street tube)
Charge: free

Every major election includes a comment on low electorate turnout and the weak link between the British people and politicians. As a result, we now have a multitude of mainly web based projects to make it easier to engage in debate, find out what our political masters are up to and campaign on local issues. But with these ‘solutions’ there are a host of questions: Are we focussing on the symptom or the cause? What exactly *is* being done? What can we point to as a working example and the most important question ‘Will people even be interested?’
This is a whistlestop tour through the current e-democracy projects around the country and an examination of some of the issues that have sprung up around the concept of e-democracy.

The British Computer Society's SocioTechnical Specialist group hosts talks and
events that relate to IT technology and its social impact.
Further information: http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm

15 October: Tales from the Crypt - A Narrative Study of IT Consultants and Organizing in the Dotcom Era
Time: 3 pm - 5 pm
Venue: LSE, London
Part of the ESRC funded seminar series, ICTs in the contemporary world: work management and culture.
Further information: http://is.lse.ac.uk/events/ESRCseminars/default.htm

14 October: Design Council 'Touching the State' launch
Time: 1.15-3 pm
Venue: Portcullis House, Westminster, London
By invitation: let me know if you need to be there.

Monday 18 October: Usability Professionals' Association
Design and Usability
Speakers: Heather McQuaid, John O'Reilly and Alasdair Scott
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft Great Pultney Street, London (off Brewer Street in Soho)
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
Heather McQuaid. Heather has worked as a usability specialist for Maya
Design, a US agency that has pioneered interdisciplinary design practice.
* John O'Reilly. John has worked as developer, project manager and tester
on projects with external user experience companies and internal design
teams. John is a managing consultant at Conchango.
*Alasdair Scott: Alasdair is a creative partner for Filter, a design
company specialising in mobile device and service design. Alasdair is a new
media design veteran who has been working in the field since 1988.

Further information: http://www.ukupa.org.uk

18-19 October: TFPL - Planning and Building a Taxonomy
Time: 2-day course
Venue: London
Charge: see website
Further information: http://www.tfpl.com/skills_development/courses/cd.cfm?linkid=tr542

Tuesday 19 October: Royal Institution - Complexity in nature: From patterns to chaos
Speakers: Prof Tom Mullin, Dr Anne Juel
Time: 6.30 pm - 8 pm
Venue: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Charge: £5 to non-members
Further information: http://www.rigb.org/rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=90

Wednesday 20 October: IBF Live
Organiser: Intranet Benchmarking Forum
Time: 9 am - 6 pm, followed by an Open Space Bar Forum until 9 pm
Venue: British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Charge: see website

IBF LIVE takes place in the British Library, and has more than 30 topic sessions on offer, covering all aspects of intranet and portals, including communication and engagement, accessibility, HR, measurement, legal compliance, user-experience, technology, governance, content management - and future insight. Select from 10 workshops, 16 breakout sessions and 5 key talks - including expert sessions by Google, RNIB, ebay, Alliance & Leicester, Amazon, IBM and B & Q.
This is the first public event hosted by the members-only Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) and its more members, such as General Electric, AstraZeneca, Kellogg's, Legal & General, Cadbury's and Orange. Latest Annual Members to join are the BBC and Cadbury's. The purpose of IBF is to improve the performance of member intranets and portals through independent evaluation, benchmarking and meetings/visits.

Further information: http://www.ibforum.co.uk/ibflive/default.htm

OCTOBER 2004

Thursday 28 October: iMacs and iPods
Speaker: Jonathan Ive (Apple)
Time: 7.15 pm
Venue: Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 (near Tower Bridge)
Charge: £10
Further information: http://www.designmuseum.org

Thursday 28 October: Royal Institution - In search of boffins
Speaker: Francis Spufford (author of Backroom Boys)
Time: 7 pm - 8.30 pm
Venue: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Charge: £8 for non-members, £5 concessions
...[Francis Spufford] will consider the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile phone business, saved the human genome for the human race and sent Beagle 2 to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.
Further information: http://www.rigb.org/rimain/calendar/detail.jsp?&id=94

Wednesday 3 November: Web Design for Usability workshop
Time: full-day workshop
Venue: British Library, London NW1
Workshop leader: William Hudson, Syntagm
Charge: see website
Further information: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/webdesign.shtml

Thursday 4 November: IPPR/NMK - e-Voting Policy and Practice
Speakers: Jason Kitcat, Louise Ferguson, Nicole Smith, Julia Glidden. Chair: Stephen Coleman
Time: 6 pm - 8 pm
Venue: Westminster Kingsway College, Peter Street, London W1
Charge: £20
Further information: http://www.nmk.co.uk/event/2004/11/04/e-voting

Monday 8 November: ASA Network of Applied Anthropologists
Time: 6.30pm - 8pm
Venue: The Old Crown, 33 New Oxford Street, London (Tottenham Court Rd tube)
Everybody welcome – or come and join us for a drink afterwards.
Email Kathryn to let her know you're coming or for further information: kathryn at fiskur dot com

Wednesday 10 November: BCS SocioTechnical - The Small World of Spanners, Hubs and Brokers
Speaker: Peter Smith (The Leadership Alliance Inc.)
Time: 6 pm - 7.30 pm
Venue: Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road
(opposite Baker Street tube)
Charge: free

The success of any significant cultural or technological initiative depends on
having, in the target community, an informed, supportive, and influential body
of “opinion leaders. It’s more than “What people know” or even “Who people
know” that influences results for better or worse - it’s “Who people know well
enough to trust their judgment or advice” and/or “Who people have confidence in to get things done efficiently and effectively”.
The extent to which the community at large is influenced will depend on having ready and effective communications across trust-based networks of all kinds. In other words it will be critically dependent on how tightly-knit and
collaborative the target community’s social fabric has become, and the extent
to which authentic public and private conversations can take place across the
community, including among all its stakeholders.
Social Network Analysis (SNA) allows us to recognise the key formal and informal influential players in a community’s social networks, and to grasp the
complexities of the various relationships and communications channels that are involved. These networks may be compared to optimal patterns, and actions undertaken as necessary to realise the potential envisaged for the initiative at hand.
"Small Worlds” are network archetypes that epitomise optimal network
connectivity, and “Spanners”, “Hubs”, and “Brokers” are members of the target community who play critical roles in ensuring the efficacy of a social network.
You are invited to come and hear about the practical-power and
application-simplicity of today’s SNA, and how the mysteries of “The Small
World of Spanners, Hubs, and Brokers” profoundly impacts everyday results in your community.

Further information: http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm

10-11 November: Airport, Port and Terminal Security
Venue: Olympia 2, London
Two high level conferences will analyse the threats to aviation and maritime security with a focus on policy, innovation, politics and best practice in countering the threat worldwide. An exhibition runs alongside the conference, comprising of 60 leading industry suppliers, showcasing the latest product and service solutions for security.
Further information

17 November: Adam Smith Institute: Blogging Seminar
Speakers: Stephen Pollard, William Heath, Perry de Havilland
For more information: see Adam Smith Institute website

Thursday 18 November: Usability Professionals' Association
What the UK UPA can do for you
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Microsoft House, Great Pulteney Street, London W1 (Soho)
Charge: free for all

Blurb:
Our next meeting will be a chance for you to decide what the UK UPA should do for you.
We'll start with a brief look at the past year, including the new intern initiative, and plan to have reports from our sister chapter in Scotland and the regional groups that have been getting started.
Then we'll switch the focus to 2005, with an 'ideas market' format where you can grab a drink, have a chance to share ideas, and perhaps think about getting involved in future activities and initiatives:
What events should UK UPA try to put on?
How can the web site be better?
What should we do to help our members learn more?
What campaigns should we run?
How can we add value to membership?
As usual, there'll be a to mingle, network and enjoy a free glass of wine, beer or juice and some nibbles.

RSVP essential: events@ukupa.org.uk to confirm your attendance. This will ensure you can get into the building, and will also help us with refreshments planning.
Further information: http://www.ukupa.org.uk

18-20 November: MacExpo
Venue: Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Further information: http://www.mac-expo.co.uk/

24 November: Learning Disability Today
Venue: Business Design Centre, Islington, London
Further information: http://www.businessdesigncentre.co.uk/events/

Monday 29 November: Enterprise Information Architecture Seminar
Speaker: Lou Rosenfeld
Time: see the website
Venue: Olympia, London; as part of the Online Information 2004 conference
Charge: see the website
Further information: http://louisrosenfeld.com/presentations/seminars/eia/
Lou is also scheduled to give a couple of conference talks.

30 November - 2 December: Online Information Services
Venue: Olympia Grand, London
Online Information is a 3 day international exhibition and conference for information content and information management solutions. With 5 events in 1 including :Content Management Europe, Enterprise Document and Records Management, Enterprise Search Solutions and ePublishing Solutions. Online Information is a must attend event for information professionals, information management professionals and senior business decision makers.
Further information: http://www.online-information.co.uk

Tuesday 30 November: From grass roots to networks - the role of social capital in political participation
Speakers: Richard Allan MP, Sally Russell (NetMums), Stephen Coleman (OII)
Time: 5-7 pm
Venue: Houses of Parliament, London
Blurb: A decline in democratic participation has co-incided with extended uptake of the Internet. Governments have been keen to utilise the capabilities of new technologies in order to reverse this decline by pushing Government services online, however, the most successful examples of local participation have come from community web initiatives such as the BBC's Ican, UK Villages and NetMums.
This event, held as part of the Manifesto for a Digital Britain project, will examine the potential of social capital in increasing political participation at a local level. Professor Stephen Coleman, Oxford Internet Institute, will present his paper detailing serveral case studies and exploring their importance in the public participation debate.
Contact: Kay Withers at k dot withers at ippr dot org

Tuesday 30 November: Demos - The Pro-Am Revolution
Speakers: Charles Leadbeater, Melanie Howard, Bob Tyrell
Time: 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Venue: Demos, Third Floor, 136 Tooley Street, London SE1
Further information on Demos website

Thursday 2 December: UXNet London launch event
Speaker: Kevin Cheng of OK/Cancel
Time: 7 pm
Venue: UCLIC, 31/32 Alfred Place, London (near Goodge Street station)
Cost: Free
Guest of honour: Lou Rosenfeld (author of Information Architecture for the WWW)
RSVP required to confirm your attendance: uxnet at unraveled dot com

Tuesday 7 December: Online Campaigning - Lessons the UK can learn from internet use in US elections
Speakers: Stephen Coleman, Julia Glidden, Phil Noble (PoliticsOnline founder); chair Brian White MP
Organiser: Hansard Society
Time: 5.30-7 pm
Venue: Grand Committee Room (off Westminster Hall), Houses of Parliament (access via St Stephen's entrance)
Charge: free and open to the public, but places are limited.
RSVP essential to Barry Griffiths - edemocracy at lse dot ac dot uk

Wednesday 8 December: Innovation through People Centred Design: Lessons for the UK
Time: 4-8 pm
Venue: Design Council Bow Street, London WC2E 7DL
Seminar to launch of a report from a recent DTI mission to the US, investigating developments in people-centred design.
By invitation: places are limited.
Contact events at globalwatchonline dot com by Friday 19 November

Wednesday 8 December: Oxford Internet Institute
Speaker: Ted Nelson
Time: 12.30 pm
Venue: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford
See OII website for more info.

From Ted's blurb: Document formats and linking are one of the greatest hidden political issues of our time. Who may link and quote, and how, have secretly predefined and restricted vast areas of possible freedom of speech and the press. For instance, the Web formats concentrate linking power: you can't publish annotations and you can't create links that tie together multiple documents. Our present net media-- especially the Web, email, chat and Flash-- evolved mainly by accident. Many people want a medium that combines them, but have been told that it's technically impossible-- an answer which is either a bald-faced lie, sheer laziness or (to be charitable) a lacuna of the tekkie imagination.

The TransLiterature Project, currently housed at the Oxford Internet Institute, hopes to remedy these omissions, to extend and generalize the concepts of link and transclusion, and to unify today's Babel of electronic documents.

Our open-source TransLit program is intended to allow users to convert any electronic document (including Word, Acrobat and emails, later perhaps movies and audio) to a simple common format that is easily addressable. This should permit many improved forms of work, presentation and understanding-- compound documents built dynamically from many sources and sent out simply as lists (avoiding some copyright issues);
- direct access to the original context of any portion of a compound document (transclusion);
- easy linking in depth and in profusion by third parties (unlike one-way,
nonoverlappable Weblinks permitted only to original authors);
- distributable overlays of links that tie together many preëxisting documents;
- new hybrid media that combine aspects of email, the Web, chat, movies...;
- new overview visualizations of connected documents-- for instance, as a swoopable, zoomable 3D panorama where the documents hang in space. (Note that we hope others will build such client software on the core we are now developing.)

The first piece of TransLit software to be released is the TransQuoter, which assembles a Web page from portions of textfiles and Web pages anywhere on the net, retaining the connection of each portion to the original. This may be distributed as a Web page, or as the original portion addresses themelves-- sidestepping some copyright problems but not all. (This highlights the need for our permission system, transcopyright, which resolves the ambiguity.)

Because the TransLiterary format is exposed and internally addressable as parallel strands, rather than encapsulated and object-oriented and imprisoning, TransLiterature is the opposite of such formats as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word and XML.

TransLiterature is the latest reincarnation of the Xanadu project (xu88 version), adapted to today's hypertext dumbdowns-- especially the Andreessen browser. Because software is highly political (myths of "technology" to the contrary), we may expect-- if the project is successful-- raised hackles, ruffled feathers, gored oxes, and a
reverberating crossfire of outrage and jubilation for some time to come.

Wednesday 8 December: Applied Anthropology Network meeting
Time: from 6.30 pm
Venue: Porter's Bar, Covent Garden, London

Wednesday 8 December: 4D space: from aesthetics to interaction in Web design (Nico Macdonald) and Vandal Squad and Other Stories (Vassilos Alexiou)
Speakers: Nico Macdonald and Vassilos Alexiou
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Barbican Art Gallery (Level 3)
Cost: £8 (£6 concessions)
From 7.30 pm, this will be followed by an informal talk by Nico and drinks, in the Gallery reception area. Talk ticket NOT required but please RSVP to Nico: nico at spy.co.uk?Subject-Launch.

Tuesday 14 December: Cybersalon
Speaker: Eva Pasco, founder of Cyberia
Time: 7 - 10 pm
Venue: Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, London SW7
Cost: free
Eva Pascoe talks about how Internet cafes have evolved over the years and what their role is today.
Booking: call 020 7942 4040 or email tickets@danacentre.org.uk
Further information: http://www.danacentre.org.uk

Tuesday 14 December: Chimera
Speaker: Martin Harris
Time: 1 pm
Venue: Adastral Park (Ross Building), Ipswich
Martin Harris presents research findings on the digitisation programme at the British Library.
Further information: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/seminars.html

Wednesday 15 December: Is e-government better government?
Organiser: IPPR
Time: full day
Venue: central London
Cost: £100, £25 for registered charities
Further information: http://www.ippr.org.uk/events

Thursday 16 December: UPA - Games and the EyeToy
Speakers: Gerred Blyth and GiGi Deming
Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm
Venue: Microsoft House, Great Pulteney Street, London
Charge: free for UPA members, £10 for non-members, £5 for non-member students
Where does usability stop and fun begin? To get us into the festive mood, GiGi Deming and Gerred Blyth from Amberlight Partners will be presenting their work with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, which has employed UCD techniques in game design. Covered in the session:
- UCD amd gaming - an overview
- Demonstration of the EyeToy technology
- Amberlight's EyeToy work - the approaches, the challenges and findings
Also, a competition: 2 lucky winners will walk away with EyeToy: Play 2 equipment and games. You can only win if you play!
To be followed by Xmas social.
Further information: http://www.ukupa.org.uk

London - until 15 May
Design Museum - You are here: the design of information
Venue: Design Museum
Further information: http://www.designmuseum.org

Manchester - Tuesday 29 March
UK UPA Manchester
Speaker: Louise Ferguson
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Cafe Muse, Manchester Museum, Manchester
More details to follow.

London - 4-5 April 2005
5th Social Study of Information Technology Workshop
Time: from 9.30am on Monday 4th to lunchtime on Tuesday 5th
Venue: Department of Information Systems, LSE, Houghton Street, London
Further details to be announced nearer the time.
Further information: http://www.is.lse.ac.uk/events

Lancaster - Wednesday 6 April
Healthcare Information Services and Future ICTs
Venue: Infolab21, Lancaster University
Further information

London - Thursday 7 April
Dana Centre - Future Entertainment
Time: 7pm - 9pm
The current and future potential of cross-media entertainment. How are creative, multidisciplinary teams from broadcast, advertising and education turning imaginative concepts into innovative, interactive content for TV, Web and mobile?
Further information: http://www.danacentre.org.uk

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