Workshops (1,5 h.)
Workshops should allow participants to share their experiences in a specific domain. Participants should be already somewhat familiar with the domain, and the organizers should arrange the workshop in a way that each participant can present their view on the topic, and there is room for discussion. (note: workshops are not the same as hands-on tutorials)

Case studies (20 min.)
Case studies should present examples of how certain UCD techniques, methods or approaches were applied to a specific case. The case study should clearly present the original briefing or problem that had to be addressed, the approach or methods used to address this, as well as the results. Novelty of the methods is not a selection criterion, the focus should rather be on lessons learned.

Industry research (20 min.)
Industry research should present original research in an industry context. Topics can include novel methods, new interaction technologies, innovative interface concepts, results from user studies, etc. Submissions will be reviewed based on originality and how it fits within industry.

Academic research (20 min.)
Academic research should present original research from universities or research centers. Similar to industry research, topics can include novel methods, new interaction technologies, innovative interface concepts, results from user studies, etc. Submissions will be reviewed based on originality and soundness of the scientific research.


Submission guidelines and deadline

Submissions can be sent in any format, but should contain at least the following information:
- Presenter name and affiliation
- Short presenter bio
- Presentation abstract (min. 150 words)

Submissions should be addressed to david.geerts@soc.kuleuven.be.

Deadline for submission: 16th August 2010
Announcement to presenters: 1st October 2010


Contact

Send any inquiry about the conference to: info@sigchi.be

PROGRAM (see below for details)

17:00 Arrivals
17:30 Intro
17:40 "Laddering the User Experience!" - Vero Vanden Abeele
18:15 "I still love RIA - but where did she go to?" - Steven Verhoest
18:50 "How technology may affect people's perception of their bodies" - Joannes Vandermeulen
19:30 Snacks and networking

LOCATION

Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen
Hoger Instituut voor Integrale Productontwikkeling
Ambtmanstraat 1
Aula 2.03
BE-2000 Antwerp
http://www.artesis.be/productontwikkeling/contact/locatie.htm

PRICE

- SIGCHI.be members: included in 2010 membership fee*
- non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro

*If you become a member before registering for this event, you will not only be able attend this presentation for free, but also all following events in 2010. You will also receive a discount for the SIGCHI.be 2010 conference.
*Starting in 2010, organizations can buy group membership for 225 euro/year. This entitles them to free attendance of up to five members of their organization to each regular SIGCHI.be events. For details, contact info@sigchi.be.

DETAILED PROGRAM

17:00 Arrivals
17:30 Intro
17:40 "Laddering the User Experience!" - Vero Vanden Abeele
Abstract: Researching the User Experience has become a key question within the community of Human Computer Interaction, calling for adapted research methods. In this talk, I present both a method and a tool for User Experience Laddering, adapted from laddering in consumer research and based upon Means-end Theory. The UX laddering method and tool helps designers understand how concrete product attributes benefit personal values for end users.

Bio: Vero Vanden Abeele has a master's degree in design sciences from the Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. Fascinated by human-machine interaction, she was introduced to interaction design at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. After gaining professional experience in designing hardware for user interaction, she returned to the academic world, where she focuses on how to create the optimal user experience. Currently, Vero is completing a PhD in motion-based interfaces and player-centered game design.

18:15 "I still love RIA - but where did she go to?" - Steven Verhoest

Abstract: Two years ago I talked about my love for RIA (Rich Internet Applications). What RIA is, her history and her future. So now we are two years further down the road and thus time for a re-evaluation. Where is RIA? Does she still exist? Does she make a chance and will she live up to her expectations? Let's find out together.

Bio: Steven Verhoest graduated in 1990 as an industrial designer. He has always been passionate about combining form and technology -- information technology in particular. He was one of the early birds on the web in Belgium. He earned his stripes at The Reference and e-Com, two Belgian internet pioneers. Steven's always made a specialty of ‘complex' web sites, where large bodies of corporate information have to be accessible with just a few clicks. Web applications are another field of particular interest. With his company VERVORM (www.vervorm.be) Steven has launched himself as a freelance UI designer/developer who flies the flag for slogans like "Forms Follows Function" and "Don't Make Me Think".

18:50 "How technology may affect people's perception of their bodies" - Joannes Vandermeulen

Abstract: In view of probable advances in:
- healthcare through in-body and on-body nano-sensors and nano-actuators, the targeted delivery of medication and highly individualised treatments
- our understanding of biological pathways, individual genetic differences and neuroscience
The following questions may become important:
- How will this continuous information about the body be fed back to the body/brain, if not through the interoceptive senses (the senses that are stimulated from within the body) or through a healthcare professional?
- How will people make sense of all this information, decide on life style and respond to critical situations 'at the cutting edge'?
- How will people change the image they possess of their body? And how will these changes in the bodily mental model cut across different cultures?
- Are models of human affect and emotional response more relevant here than the traditional cognitive models of rationalistic decision making?
This dialogue doesn't deal with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) but with Human-Self Interaction, mediated through technologies and with the ultimate purpose of making us all more mindful of our own bodies. The body is the final frontier, not space.

Bio: Joannes studied Archaeology and Oriental Linguistics at K.U.Leuven. He founded Namahn (www.namahn.com) in 1987 as a one-person consultancy and has since built the practice into one of about 20 people. As well as leading his business, Joannes has a busy agenda lecturing at universities and product design schools internationally and frequently speaks at conferences. His passions outside work are evolutionary biology, cognitive science and futurology, not forgetting his wife and three children.

19:30 snacks and networking

REGISTRATION

You can register for this event on
http://sigchi.be/events/p/signup/next-sigchi-be-event-tuesday-20-april-antwerp

We hope to see you in Antwerp on Tuesday 20 April at 17:00!

If you are interested to present your HCI-related thoughts, provocations or productions, please let us know by Monday 15 March by sending a title, short abstract and approximate timing to david.geerts@soc.kuleuven.be.

PROGRAM (preliminary)

17:00 arrivals
17:30 intro
17:45 main presentation
18:30 break
19:00 short presentations
20:00 snacks and networking

LOCATION

Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen
Hoger Instituut voor Integrale Productontwikkeling
Ambtmanstraat 1
Aula 2.03
BE-2000 Antwerp

Do already mark your calendar for Tuesday 20 April at 17:00!

Note: due to practical constraints, a maximum of 25 participants can register, so make sure you secure your spot!

The event will be organized as a highly interactive workshop, focusing on the winner of the Usability Awards 2009 in the category "Most user-friendly corporate or commercial website": http://www.abconcerts.be. You will perform an expert evaluation on the website in small groups, in order to determine which aspects of the site have led to the award (and which aspects are maybe not that usable). Each group will present their main conclusions to the rest of the participants. Afterwards, Bart De Waele from Netlash, the firm that created the site, will explain how they paid attention to the usability of the site, and will give his feedback on the comments raised during the expert reports.

- SIGCHI.be members: included in 2009 membership fee*
- non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro

*If you become a member before this event, the membership will be valid for 2010 as well. If you are already a 2009 member, your membership is valid for this event, but you will have to renew your membership in 2010.

15:30 arrivals
16:00 intro
16:15 start of expert review of site
17:00 five-minute presentations of expert reports
17:30 break
18:00 presentation by Bart De Waele (Netlash) and discussion of expert reports

We would like to thank Netlash for offering their location, and taking care of the catering!

REGISTRATION

You can register for this event on
http://sigchi.be/events/p/signup/christmas-event-09

We hope to see you in Ghent on Tuesday 15 December at 16:00!

The SIGCHI.be Board

In conjunction with CHI 2010
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Saturday, April 10th or Sunday, 11th, 2010

THEME
========
In the history of software development, the abstraction level on which software is described has been increasing all the time.
The latest trend is to specify software using (platform-independent) models, which are then gradually and (semi-) automatically transformed into executable applications for different platforms and target devices.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss the use of (semi-) formal models in user interface development.
What is the right way of creative design and interaction design working with user interface models? Can models help in coping with innovative interaction techniques?

The workshop will be a platform for discussing the modelling of advanced user interfaces, such as interfaces supporting complex interactions, visualizations, multimedia representations, multimodality, adaptability or customization.
It will contribute to a better integration of knowledge from the Human-Computer Interaction community and the Software Engineering community.
We are striving for development methods which support the model-driven development of user interfaces with great user experience and optimal usability.
Which kinds of models are required to achieve this goal? How can different kinds of models be flexibly combined? How can individual and informal design skills be integrated into the process?
Can (and shall) we integrate the tools designers are accustomed to use nowadays? Is it possible to do user-centred design based on models?

TOPICS OF INTEREST
==================
We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

* Tools supporting model-driven development of advanced user interfaces
* Models related to one or more HCI aspects that relate to the user experience of the modeled application
* Project experience on user interface development using a model-driven development approach
* The combination of models and informal design knowledge in a model-driven development process
* A well-reasoned proposal for a (partial) answer to one of the questions in the theme description

WORKSHOP FORMAT
================
The workshop takes one full day during the CHI 2010 conference. The workshop will consist of short presentations by all workshop participants followed by in-depth group discussions on selected topics.
The results of this group work will be presented and discussed in a closing plenary session.

PAPER SUBMISSION
================
Submissions with in-depth discussion of one topic are preferred above submissions with a broader topic. Usage of an illustrative example is encouraged. Both academic position papers and industrial experience papers are solicited.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop.
All submission must be in English. Papers must not exceed 4 pages in SIGCHI Conference Proceedings Format and address one or more of the above topics. Templates are available at:

* Microsoft Word document template
(http://www.chi2010.org/authors/chi2010pubsformat.doc)
* LaTeX class file
(http://www.chi2010.org/authors/chi2009_LaTeX.zip)

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mddaui2010.
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. All accepted papers will be published electronically as CEUR proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
===============
* 20 December 2009 : paper submission deadline
* 19 January 2010 : Notification of acceptance
* 08 February 2010 : Final camera-ready paper due
* 05 March 2010 : Distribution of final papers

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
===================
* Jan Van den Bergh (Hasselt University, Belgium)
* Gerrit Meixner (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany)
* Andreas Pleuß (Lero, Ireland)
* Heinrich Hußmann (University of Munich, Germany)
* Stefan Sauer (University of Paderborn, Germany)
* Kai Breiner (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
===================
* Kai Breiner (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
* Gaëlle Calvary (University Joseph Fourier, France)
* Peter Forbrig (University of Rostock, Germany)
* Phil Gray (University of Glasgow, UK)
* Heinrich Hußmann (University of Munich, Germany)
* Youn-kyung Lim (KAIST, South Korea)
* Kris Luyten (Hasselt University, Belgium)
* Gerrit Meixner (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany)
* Philippe Palanque (University Paul Sabatier, France)
* Fabio Paternò (C.N.R. Pisa, Italy)
* Andreas Pleuß (Lero, Ireland)
* Angel Puerta (RedWhale Corp., USA)
* Harald Reiterer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
* Stefan Sauer (University of Paderborn, Germany)
* Orit Shaer (Wellesley College, USA)
* Gerd Szwillus (University of Paderborn, Germany)
* Jan Van den Bergh (Hasselt University, Belgium)
* Jean Vanderdonckt (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
* Detlef Zühlke (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany)

For further details please visit http://www.lero.ie/mddaui2010/
For further questions please contact us at jan.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be or Gerrit.Meixner@dfki.de

When and where?

When? Friday, 11 December 2009, from 8:30 till 18:45 
Where? to be announced, Amsterdam, NL - http://designforconversion.nl/venue/

Speakers

http://designforconversion.nl/speakers/

Program

http://designforconversion.nl/program/

Prices and Booking

http://designforconversion.nl/registration/

When and where?

When? Monday, 19 October 2009, from 8:30 till 18:00 
Where? De Montil, Moortelstraat 8, 1790 Affligem - www.demontil.be

Who's it for?

Our first conference will bring together researchers and practitioners like usability specialists, designers, computer scientists and all people with a heart and mind set for Human-Computer Interaction.

Theme: New Communities

This year's theme, New Communities, addresses the heightened interest in building and supporting communities in all its shades: groupware, work communities, social networks, community software & tools. It also refers to the new community of Belgian HCI professionals that this conference wants to bring together, enabling people to step forward and present their work to their peers and to the broader ICT community.

Program

08:30 - 09:00 Arrival
09:00 - 10:00 Welcome speech and opening keynote
10:00 - 10:30 Morning break
10:30 - 12:00 Research paper presentations
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:30 Case studies
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon break
16:00 - 17:00 Research paper presentations
17:00 - 18:00 Closing keynote

Exhibitors

We thank the conference exhibitors for their support.

Keynote speakers

09:00 - 10:00 Communities of Practice: A conceptual frame for Human-Centred Computing (Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin)

Computer applications are getting increasingly interwoven in everyday life. To build these applications, we need to take the distinct practices of their (potential) users into account.
I will frame the talk by developing a practise-based perspective on social systems. Based on this perspective, I will suggest a research framework for human centred computing. To clarify this framework, I will present research being conducted currently at the University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT.

We are developing innovative applications for distinct domains such as: knowledge work in a German industrial association, a fire-brigade in the city of Paris, and an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in the city of Bonn.
Research in these particular domains is linked by overarching method development such as appropriation infrastructures, end user development, and 3D simulation environments of wearable computers' use.
Finally, I will discuss further research challenges when taking a practise-based view on human centred computing.

17:00 - 18:00 Geekiness is the new cool (Tom Palmaerts, Trendwolves)

In the mid nineties people started to question the concept of ‘youth subculture'. Dividing youngsters in different groups is not done. Youngsters were believed to be very individualistic. They mix and sample their own identity and subculture. Everyone forms his or her own subculture. Today online social network sites proved that this me-oriented view of youngsters needs to be revised. Youngsters are individualistic, but also curious and social. Communities are the new subcultures. Contemporary youngster communities are multilayered in space, place and time. How do they use social network communities? And how is technology effecting real life cultures. The cool kids online are not always the cool kids in real life ... but geekiness is the new cool ... so there is no problem for all of you.

Accepted papers

- Technology for the Equadorian Hearing Impaired People: A novell use of Xstroke’s pointer gesture recognition algorithm for the recognition of Equadorian Sign Language (anonymized)

- User interfaces for direct and remote HRI for a swarm of robots assisting fire-fighters (Elvina Motard, Jeremi Gancet, Amir M. Naghsh, Chris R. Roast)

- Clubs, Stages, & Multitouch (Dries De Roeck)

- Learning CHI on FaceBook (Erik Duval, Gonzalo Parra, Sten Govaerts)

- Alignment of Business Processes and User Interfaces in the Context of Large Organizations (Kenia Sousa, Hildeberto Mendonça, Jean Vanderdonckt)

- Improving Intelligibility and Control in Ubicomp Environments (Jo Vermeulen, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx)

Case Studies

The "Case Studies" track will present practical case studies from industry with practitioner's experience reports. The following presentations have been accepted:

- The animated GUI: lessons from Disney (Kristel Van Ael/Joannes Vandermeulen - Namahn)

- From Cultuurweb to UiTinVlaanderen (Karl Gilis - AGConsult)

- AnySurfer Accessibility Monitor 2009 (Roel van Gils, Gijs Veyfeyken, Bart Simons, Nymphaea Notschaele - AnySurfer)

- Show me who was at my door and left me a message. fifthplay's smart building concept (Lore Nuyens - Human Interface Group)

- UI challenges of a temporal database (Bart Van Roey - The Talentbox)

- Collaborative Knowledge Management in Drupal: new tools to capture more knowledge with less effort on your community platform (Kristof Van Tomme - Pronovix)

Prices

SIGCHI.be or ACM members: 60 euro
Non-members of SIGCHI.be: 120 euro
Students: 40 euro

Registration

Register online

When and where?

When? Tuesday, 20 October 2009, from 8:30 till 18:30 
Where? Spoorwegmuseum, Utrecht, NL - www.designbyfire.nl/2009/venue/index.html

Speakers

www.designbyfire.nl/2009/program/index.html

Prices and Booking

www.designbyfire.nl/2009/tickets/index.html

- SIGCHI.be members: included in 2009 membership fee
- non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro

PROGRAM

17:00 - 18:30 a line-up of 10-minute presentation
18:30 - 19:00 break with food and drinks
19:00 - 19:30 elections to the board

REGISTRATION

You can register for this event here.

The special theme is "New Communities". This theme addresses the recent
interest in building and supporting communities online, whether in the
form of groupware, work communities, social networks, community software
or communication tools. It also refers to the new community of Belgian
HCI professionals that this conference wants to bring together, enabling
them to present their work to each other and to the broader ICT
community.

Topics

Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

* Community-centered design
* impact of technology on communities
* mobile devices
* ubiquitous/pervasive computing
* interactivity
* collaborative technology
* networked devices
* social spaces
* technology as a group experience
* ...


Submission guidelines and deadline

Submissions are expected to be 2-8 pages long and should clearly
describe the content of the presentation. We are kindly requesting to
submit in the ACM format http://sigchi.org/chipubform. You can re-use
material from previously published papers.

Submissions should be addressed to David.Geerts@soc.kuleuven.be.

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Deadline for submission: 15 July 2009
Announcement to authors: 1 September 2009

Organizing Committee

Conference Organizing Committee

* Els Aerts
* Katia Aerts
* Frank Amand
* Adrien Coyette
* David De Block
* Hans De Mondt
* Dries De Roeck
* Didier Dulait
* Erik Duval
* David Geerts
* Marjan Geerts
* Kathy Haemers
* Mieke Haesen
* Maarten Hazebroek
* Dirk Huysmans
* Jan Meskens
* Alok Nandi
* Chris Raymaekers
* Karin Slegers
* Kenia Sousa
* Johan Van Maldeghem
* Bart Van Roey
* Vero Vanden Abeele
* Joannes Vandermeulen
* Johan Verhaegen

Contact

Send any inquiry about the conference to: info@sigchi.be.

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 About SIGCHI.be

SIGCHI.be is the Belgian branch of SIGCHI, the premier international ACM
Special Interest Group for professionals, academics and students who are
interested in human-computer interaction (HCI). We want to increase
knowledge and awareness of HCI in its broadest sense, both within
educational institutions and industry.

The current board of SIGCHI.be is made up of a mix of people from both
industry and academia:

* David Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - treasurer
* Joannes Vandermeulen, Namahn - president
* Johan Verhaegen, Human Interface Group - secretary

Bio

Mark Vanderbeeken is a founding partner of Experientia, an international user experience design consultancy based in Turin, Italy.

Experientia helps companies and organisations to innovate their products, services and processes by putting people and their experiences first. The company is highly regarded for its thorough integration of extensive user and context understanding with high-level design and prototyping activities.

At Experientia he is involved with general management, project supervision, editorial contributions, and strategic communications.

Prior to starting Experientia in 2005, he was communications manager of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Ivrea, Italy), European communications coordinator for the World Wide Fund for Nature (or WWF, Copenhagen, Denmark), marketing director of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (New York, USA), and chief press officer of Antwerp 93, Cultural Capital of Europe (Antwerp, Belgium).



He is the author of Experientia's successful experience design blog Putting People First, has set up a professional blog on e-democracy, and writes for Core77, the well-known USA-based online design magazine. He is also a contributing editor at Interactions Magazine.

He studied visual and cognitive psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium and obtained a Master's Degree in cognitive psychology at Columbia University, New York.

Links:
www.experientia.com

Sign up now!
(until June 25)

This is where you can sign up: http://www.sigchi.be/events

- SIGCHI.be members: included in 2009 membership fee
- non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro

The venue

Namahn
Grensstraat 21 Rue de la Limite
B-1210 Brussels
http://www.namahn.com/reach

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Update

Find the presentation slides of the event below:

From the conference website:
The CHI Nederland Conference 2009: Change! offers a forum for discussion and exploration of innovative approaches and contexts to facilitate and design for these changes in all aspects of research, industry, and society. Featuring multidisciplinary speakers and participants, we hope that this conference will serve as a catalyst to push the boundaries of human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience design (UxD).

We recruited volunteers at the last event in Louvain-La-Neuve and 16 people signed up. We still need a few more and were wondering if you would be interested to join our team of conference enthusiasts. It will not represent more than a few days of work (sometimes less) between now and mid October.

If you are interested, please send a mail to Joannes Vandermeulen (jv@namahn.com) at the latest on Monday 4 May.

The current climate is the ideal opportunity to question your business and organizational model, to explore new routes, to invest in more talented people that can make a difference, to challenge your clients,...but also understand better the business needs of the latter.

Pieter Goiris, director of the communication agency Boondoggle, will unveil his secrets to tackle the hurdles by taking his own agency as an example: Mixing creativity, data, content, social networking, point of sales and experience into ROI driven services, campaigns, solutions or projects, will become the DNA of the agency of the future.

It will be a very interesting talk, from which we as HCI professionals most certainly can learn a lot: about entrepreneurship, humor, zen, creativity, flexibility, music, dna, involvement, engagement and dreams. And maybe about the brand called ‘Obama' ;-)

After Pieter's talk and a short break, it's demo time again! This time, we are looking for demos on advanced non-traditional user interfaces and next generation user interfaces (touch interfaces, gestural interfaces,...). We will have interesting demos by EDM, Alcatel Lucent and Namahn, but we're still looking for additional demos. So, if you're interested to show us something of your cutting-edge stuff, please send an e-mail to david.geerts@soc.kuleuven.be. Note that your demo doesn't have to be a fully working system: prototypes, online demos, mockups or the like are perfect alternatives!

So, join us at our next SIGCHI.be event, on Tuesday, March 17 at Louvain-la-Neuve!

Schedule

17:00 - 17:15 Introduction
17:15 - 18:00 "Brands, agency life, crisis & Obama" - Pieter Goiris
18:00 - 18:30 Break
18:30 - 19:15 Demo time
19:15 - 20:00 Food and drinks, HCI networking

Bio Pieter Goiris

Pieter Goiris is co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Boondoggle and member of the Board of Directors of Boondoggle. He holds a Master Degree in Organizational Psychology from the KU Leuven and a Bachelor Degree in Agriculture Engineering from the University Gent. In his current position, Pieter is responsible for the General Management, Business & Strategy in Belgium and for the Development of Internationalization Strategy of Boondoggle. He grew Boondoggle towards a leading advertising & communication agency with offices in 3 countries, Belgium, Ireland & Holland. He currently manages a team of about 65 people, with a revenue exceeding 8 Mio Euro.

Pieter is very active and board member in several organizations that support the development of the marketing communications industry, such as Medianet Vlaanderen, Association of Communication Companies (ACC) & Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Next to the professional communication industry, Pieter is also president of the board of two leading organizations in the Belgian Music Industry, being Poppunt in Brussels (advice, content, projects & services) & the concert venue Het Depot in Leuven.

Together with some friends, Pieter is also developing a creative real estate project in the oldest brewery of Stella Artois. This ‘creative minds' project must become the hart of creativity in Leuven within 3 years.

Sign up!

This is where you can sign up: http://www.sigchi.be/events

- SIGCHI.be members: 15 euro
- non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro

The venue

Salle Urbain Vaes, Université catholique de Louvain,
Louvain School of Management, Place des Doyens, 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

Place des Doyens is near the train station Louvain-
la-Neuve Université:

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We hope to meet you there!

The SIGCHI.be Board



Annual fees now entitle you to free access at all SIGCHI.be events. Go to the "Become a member" section to subscribe!

17:00 - 17:15 Introduction
17:15 - 18:00 "To measure is to know" - Erik Verdeyen
18:00 - 18:30 Break
18:30 - 19:15 "Invisible computing" - Stéphane Safin
19:15 - 20:00 Food and drinks, HCI networking

Abstracts

"To measure is to know" - Erik Verdeyen (Information Architects)

Measuring has become more and more important to the job of the information architect.
We need to measure the KPI's of our projects to assure we meet our customers' business objectives.

• We need to measure the usage of the site to assure its effectiveness.
• We need to measure the users' behaviour on the site so we can optimize the information architecture to meet their needs.
• We need to measure business parameters such as sales numbers, conversion rates, ... and compare them to the traffic analysis.

"Invisible computing" - Stéphane Safin (LUCID-ULg)

The talk will be about main researches in the LUCID-ULg (Lab for User Cognition and Innovative Design). This multidisciplinary HCI lab - gathering competencies from software engineering, building engineering and design, and psychology- is specialised in the development of CAD tools for early stages of (architectural) design. Given the creative nature of the preliminary design activity to be supported, the lab has developed innovative pen-based environments, based on the "invisible computer" paradigm. The speech will present the main prototypes, discuss our user-centred methodologies and raise some issues linked to the invisible computing for a collective discussion.

Bios

Erik Verdeyen has a masters degree in business engineering and a strong background in economics. He has been a full time internet professional for over ten years. He was involved in a wide variety of projects fulfilling a range of roles including webmaster, information architect, strategic consultant, team leader and management consultant. Erik's experience includes anything from the operational to the strategic aspects of projects for medium to international organisations, in government and private sector including customers such as Agfa Gevaert, Sony Europe, SmalS-MvM (portal of the social security in Belgium), Tractebel, VDAB, The prime minister's office, The employment agency of the Federal government and the province of Antwerp. He founded Internet Architects with David De Block in early 2006.

Stéphane Safin is a work psychologist - ergonomist. In the framework of the LUCID-ULg he manages the participative design approaches and the usability testing for the development of modelling softwares and pen-based environments mainly in the domain of architectural design. He also leads researches in design cognition, about the role of external representations in the architectural design creative process, and the mechanisms of design collaboration. These research projects are oriented towards the development of innovative tools to support preliminary design.

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This is where you can sign up:   http://sigchibe.wordpress.com/events/

- SIGCHI.be members: 15 euro
- Non SIGCHI.be members: 30 euro
- ACM members that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro
- Students that are not SIGCHI.be members: 20 euro

The venue

Centre for User Experience Research (CUO)
Mediacentrum K.U.Leuven
Parkstraat 45
3000 Leuven

Route description: http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/contact.htm

We hope to meet you there!

[Update]
Below you can find some of the presentations given during the event:

http://www.thewebandbeyond.nl/2008/06/website/?page_id=7

Maybe this would be a nice opportunity to show off your work and together with other SIGCHI.be members help put SIGCHI.be on the map.

The topic for this event: prototyping tools.
What do you use? visio, powerpoint, flash, fireworks...
How do you use it?
What do you use it for?

If you're interested in showing us how to use your weapon of choice, send an email to hans.de.mondt@gmail.com and become one of the first sigchi.be demo presenters. Be quick, only 4 booths available! Registration ends on 16 january 2008.

If this trial is succesful, more demo events will follow, so if you're up for it, make this an event to remember!

Even if you're not showing a demo, you're of course very welcome to come and watch the demos, as well as enjoy a new year's drink and some social networking.

We hope to see you there!

To register, go to our events page

Best regards,

SIGCHI.be

Het seminarie dat wordt georganiseerd ter afsluiting van het Euregio BMG project VIP-lab geeft u een overzicht van de opgeleverde prototypes. Daarnaast kunt u kennismaken met de voordelen die ICT experience prototyping - de gebruikte ontwikkelingsmethode - kan bieden voor toepassingen binnen uw organisatie.

Partners in het VIP-lab project zijn o.a. de KU Leuven (CUO) en UHasselt

Invitation to the VIP Lab closing event

Thanks a lot!

At this event we will conduct our first annual general meeting and hold elections for officers.

Of course, we also invited an interesting speaker, Steven Verhoest (www.vervorm.be) who will talk about his love for RIA (Rich Internet Applications).

Finally, we’ll do a variation on the successful 'Speed Dating' of our first event, called ‘Show and Tell’. Instead of just talking about yourself, you should bring something to talk about. This can be a prototype of a new product you’re working on but it might just as well be a slideshow, a book or a picture of your children. If you want to talk about it, bring it.

Schedule

17:00 - 17:30 Annual Meeting
17:30 - 18:00 Steven Verhoest: I Love RIA
18:00 - 18:30 Break
18:30 - 19:15 Show and Tell
19:15 - 20:00 Sandwiches with drinks, HCI networking

About our speaker

Steven Verhoest graduated in 1990 as an industrial designer. He has always been passionate about combining form and technology -- information technology in particular.
He was one of the early birds on the web in Belgium. He earned his stripes at The Reference and e-Com, two Belgian internet pioneers. Steven’s always made a specialty of ‘complex’ web sites, where large bodies of corporate information have to be accessible with just a few clicks. Web applications are another field of particular interest.

With his new company VERVORM (www.vervorm.be) Steven has launched himself as a freelance UI designer/developer who flies the flag for slogans like "Forms Follows Function" and "Don't Make Me Think".

Sign up!

This is where you can sign up for the fourth SIGCHI.be event:

http://sigchibe.wordpress.com/events/

SIGCHI.be members: 15 euro (if you attended any of the previous SIGCHI.be events, you already are a SIGCHI.be member)

Non-members of SIGCHI.be:

• Full-time students: 30 euro (this fee includes membership of SIGCHI.be for 2007)
• ACM or SIGCHI international members: 40 euro (this fee includes membership of SIGCHI.be for 2007)
• Others: 50 euro (this fee includes membership of SIGCHI.be for 2007)

The venue

Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM)

Hasselt University | Campus Diepenbeek

Wetenschapspark 2

BE-3590 Diepenbeek | Belgium

You can reach EDM by car or by public transport.
Instructions are available at: http://edm.uhasselt.be/about/how_to_reach_us

Thanks a lot!