http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/68 <pre> ** New Masters degree course ** Traffic &amp; Transport Information Design The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) announces its first international MSc course. It is the first in a row of courses IIID is authorized to operate under the auspices of UNESCO. The course is organized by IIID in cooperation with FH St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria. The five semester MSc course will start this autumn. It is based on distance teaching and has one blocked module, once every semester, on the spot at the FH St. Poelten, Austria. The language of instruction is English. Traffic &amp; Transport Information Design not only embraces subjects like wayshowing, wayfinding and signage design, it also covers sound, haptic and olfactoric information, mobile devices, global navigation satellite and in-car navigation systems, real-time traffic information, danger warning, rescue and escape information, evaluation methods and contract management. Detailed course description a</pre> InfoDesign 2011-06-01T09:32:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/67 <pre> ** 5th Information Design International Conference ** Florianopolis island, Brazil 28th to 31st August, 2011 Web: http://www.sbdi.org.br/congresso2011/novo/en/index.php The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 17th. ** The 5th Information Design International Conference, A joint event with The 4th Brazilian Conference of Information Design and The 5th Information Design Student Conference [CONGIC]. The formers are scientific events promoted every two years by the SBDI - The Brazilian Society of Information Design and they aim at gathering professionals, researchers and students to discuss information design issues. The Congic | Information Design Student Conference, on the other hand, is a scientific event addressed to students and recently graduated professionals who have developed research in this field. The combined promotion of the events constitutes an advantageous opportunity for intellectual collaboration among researchers, professionals and students from Brazil and </pre> InfoDesign 2011-04-08T12:20:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/66 <pre> ** Calls for speakers ** 1) Traffic, transport and social media: April 8 2) 2011 IDA Congress Education Conference: April 12 3) Mobile Plus: April 15 A reminder about 3 upcoming events, and the corresponding call for speaker deadlines that are fast approaching! 1) Traffic, transport and social media IIID's 6th Expert Forum in traffic and transport information systems. 8-9 September at Tech Gate, Vienna, Austria. Website: http://www.iiid-expertforum.net/ Call for speakers deadline 8 April 2) 2011 IDA Congress Education Conference 2011 International Design Alliance (IDA) conference 24-26 October in Taipei, Taiwan Website: http://dcollege.ntust.edu.tw/ida2011/index.php/Congress/2011IDA/schedConf/cfp Call for speakers deadline 12 April 3) Mobile Plus Co-organized by IIID, MSSRF and IIT Bombay, with support from the UNESCO participation program and IL&amp;FS. 15-17 September in Chennai, India Website: http://www.mobileplus-india.net/ Call for speakers deadline 15 April __________________</pre> InfoDesign 2011-03-31T16:19:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/65 <pre> ** Information Design conferences ** ** 2010 ** October 2-5, 2010: UCDA Design Conference Minneapolis, Minnesota http://ucda.com/conference.lasso October 12-14, 2010: Clarity 2010 Lisbon: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal http://www.clarity2010.com/home_en.html October 13-14, 2010: Service Design Network Conference 2010 Berlin, Germany http://www.service-design-network.org/content/welcome October 25-26, 2010: Space X. An Exchange Forum on Information Design for Visually Impaired People Vienna: IIIDspace, Austria. http://www.space-x-vie.net/ October 28-29, 2010: Service Design Network Conference 2010 Cambridge, MA, USA http://www.service-design-network.org/content/welcome-0 October 30-November 3, 2010: 3rd International conference for Universal Design Hamamatsu, Japan. http://www.ud2010.net/ November 3-5, 2010: Design Semantics in Context Lucerne, Switzerland http://blog.hslu.ch/desform2010/ November 11, 2010: World Usability day http://www.worldu</pre> InfoDesign 2010-09-30T15:25:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/64 <pre> ** Information Design conferences ** July 7-9, 2010: IPCC 2010. Theme: 'Communication in a Self-Service Society' Enschede, University of Twente, The Netherlands. http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/index.php?q=node/843 July 7-9, 2010: Design Research Society: Design &amp; Complexity Montreal, Universite de Montreal.Canada. http://www.drs2010.umontreal.ca/ July 26-29, 2010: 14th International conference on Information Visualisation London South Bank University, London, UK. http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/ July 27-29, 2010: IADIS International Conference Visual Communication 2010: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany. http://www.vc-conf.org/ August 9-11, 2010: Diagrams 2010: Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams Portland, Portland State University, Oregon, USA. http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2010/ September 8-12, 2010: The Word. Atypi 2010 Dublin, Ireland. htt</pre> InfoDesign 2010-06-28T10:50:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/63 <pre> ** Calls for papers ** 1. IIID Traffic &amp; Transport 2010, Vienna, Austria. (Deadline: April 30) 2. IADIS International Conference Visual Communication 2010, Freiburg, Germany. (Deadline: March 29) 3. Diagrams in Education. Portland , USA. (Deadline: April 9) 4. Space-X. An Exchange Forum on Information Design for Visually Impaired People Vienna, Austria. (Deadline: April 19) _________________________________________________________________ 1) IIID Traffic &amp; Transport 2010 'Real time information in multimodal transport networks' 5th International IIID Expert Forum Traffic &amp; Transport Information Systems WEBSITE: http://www.iiid-expertforum.net/default.aspx DATES: 9 — 11 September 2010 LOCATION: Tech Gate Vienna, Austria THEME: Real time information, enhanced by intelligent information design, can reduce experienced uncertainty, effectively diminishing the main reason why too many people rely only on their car for transportation. The Expert Forum will focus on t</pre> InfoDesign 2010-03-15T06:47:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/62 <pre> * Information design events * In this message: 1. Isotype revisited. 18 November 2009. St Bride, London, UK. 2. Sign09. 3 - 11 December 2009, Vienna, Austria. _________________________________________________________________ 1) Isotype revisited Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of Isotype, a method for showing facts and connections in pictorial form. The talks draw on new research from the 'Isotype revisited' project at the University of Reading. WEBSITE: http://stbride.org/events/isotyperevisited &amp; http://www.isotyperevisited.org/ DATE: Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 7pm LOCATION: In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation Admission £7 - concessions £5 - Friends of St Bride £3 Pay on the door Matthew Eve: From hieroglyphics to Isotype ------------------------------------------ Between 1942 and 1945, Otto Neurath drafted a 'visual autobiography', an innovative attempt to document his life and work through its visual influences, and culminating in</pre> InfoDesign 2009-11-11T14:19:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/61 <pre> * InfoDesign Bookwatch * (44) In this message: 1. Beautiful Data (Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher) 2. The transformer (Marie Neurath, Robin Kinross) 3. Design Integrations (Sharon Poggenpohl, Keiichi Sato) 4. Managing information for research (Elizabeth Orna, Graham Stevens) 5. Wayfinding (Craig Berger) 6. The Wayfinding Handbook (David Gibson) _________________________________________________________________ 1) TITLE: Beautiful Data The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions AUTHORS: Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher DETAILS: Price: USD 44.99 | 34.50 GBP ISBN 13: 9780596157111 Published: July 2009 Publisher: O'Reilly, WEBSITE: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157111/ DESCRIPTION: This book shows how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. 39 contributors explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on pro</pre> InfoDesign 2009-10-01T20:01:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.infodesign.announce/61 <pre> * InfoDesign Bookwatch * (44) In this message: 1. Beautiful Data (Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher) 2. The transformer (Marie Neurath, Robin Kinross) 3. Design Integrations (Sharon Poggenpohl, Keiichi Sato) 4. Managing information for research (Elizabeth Orna, Graham Stevens) 5. Wayfinding (Craig Berger) 6. The Wayfinding Handbook (David Gibson) _________________________________________________________________ 1) TITLE: Beautiful Data The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions AUTHORS: Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher DETAILS: Price: USD 44.99 | 34.50 GBP ISBN 13: 9780596157111 Published: July 2009 Publisher: O'Reilly, WEBSITE: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157111/ DESCRIPTION: This book shows how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. 39 contributors explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on pro</pre> InfoDesign 2009-10-01T20:01:24 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.infodesign.announce