Published in April 23rd, 2010
Title: Graphic User Interface Designer
Level: Intermediate
To Apply: www.smarttech.com.careers
Graphic User Interface Designer
Work at SMART Technologies, and you can be part of a team that creates and markets leading-edge hardware and software tools sold around the world. You can join the many skilled professionals who make SMART the global leader in the interactive whiteboard [...]
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Published in January 16th, 2010
The CHI 2010 conference (April 10-15 in Atlanta) is hosting a Student Research Competition, and CapCHI is please to announce a prize supplement for local student researchers.
The Student Research Competition is a forum for undergraduates and graduate students to share their research results, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes at [...]
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Published in September 8th, 2009
ACM SIGCHI, our parent organization, is conducting a survey about local chapters and the people who participate in their events. Please read the following introduction letter and participate in the survey.
Hello SIGCHI Chapter Leaders and Members,
The SIGCHI Executive Committee is working to better meet the needs of its members, and especially local chapters. As part [...]
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Published in May 21st, 2009
Mark McKay is starting an Ottawa Chapter of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), a professional group for Interaction Designers. It actively focuses on interaction design issues for the practitioner, no matter his or her level of experience.
About IxDA
http://www.ixda.org/about.php
The Ottawa chapter is open for anyone to join by visiting
http://groups.google.com/group/ixda-ottawa?lnk=gcimh
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Published in May 14th, 2009
The OpenUsability Season of Usability will be supporting 10 students to work on 10 open source projects during the June 1 – August 31 2009 season. The Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
The [...]
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Published in December 15th, 2008
For those of you who are not already ACM Professional Members, I wanted to let you know that ACM has a special offer for you to join. It includes a discount and a free gift. Their complete offer is below for your consideration.
As a Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, you will have [...]
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Published in December 9th, 2008
CapCHI is looking for presenters for the Jan-June 2009 period.
Who would you like to see?
Or do you have an interesting topic you would like to present?
CapCHI meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm at TheCodeFactory (246 Queen at Kent).
We have a small budget available to cover travel expenses.
Please send us your ideas [...]
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Published in November 14th, 2008
Gord gave a great presentation last night on web navigation. Gord reviewed the trends in navigation techniques being used by major web sites such as BBC, Amazon, and Air Canada. According to Gord, there is a trend away from global, fixed navigation menus towards local, context-sensitive menus that change depending on a visitor’s current location.
Gord [...]
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Published in November 12th, 2008
Julian Dolce, the Director of Creative Technologies at Fuel Industries will be our guest speaker on Dec. 16. There is an interesting profile of Fuel Industries in the Nov. 11 2008 edition of The Globe and Mail in the “breakthrough” section.
Fairytale ending for tiny Ottawa firm
The folks at Fuel drove people to, and kept them [...]
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Published in September 17th, 2008
This year, we are experimenting with removing our membership and meeting fees. Instead, we will fund our meeting costs from our existing funds.
So, come on out to whatever meetings interest you.
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