The Path to Making Drupal 7 More Accessible Presented by Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Inc Date: Tuesday May 17, 2011 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: Rapidly growing in popularity, Drupal is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that is in use within all sectors including government, business, non-profit, and civil [...]

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Presented by Dominira (Dom) Saul, Director of User Experience for Akendi Date: Tuesday April 19, 2011 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: Governments and enterprises are delivering more and more services through non-traditional channels such as Mobile Devices and Social Networks. How will these new channels of service delivery and their accompanying [...]

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Privacy in the Design of Intimate Devices, with Adam Greenfield and Aza Raskin April 20, 2011 @ 2:00pm, Ottawa Presented by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2011/03/29/insights-on-privacy-adam-greenfield-and-aza-raskin/ What: Tech innovators Adam Greenfield (@agpublic) and Aza Raskin (@azaaza) will explore opportunities for privacy in the design of intimate devices, like smart phones, that [...]

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Follow The UX Leader Training Workshops Date: May 16th, 18th, and 19th 2011 Time: 9 – 5 pm Place: The Courtyard Restaurant, 21 George Street, Ottawa Website: http://www.followtheuxleader.com Learn cutting edge User Experience principles by doing! User Experience Training / Usability Training Information Architecture Training Web Writing Course Follow The UX Leader brings together insight, [...]

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We regret to announce that the March CapCHI meeting will be canceled. We had expected to conclude arrangements with a speaker, but were not able to do so in time. Our next meeting will be on April 19th. We encourage anyone in the CapCHI community to email suggestions for speakers, for either this year or [...]

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VizSec2011 Announces Call for Papers 8TH International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security to be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA NORTHPORT, NY, February 2, 2011 – Organizers of VizSec2011, the international conference on information visualization for cybersecurity, today announced its “Call for Papers”. The 8th Annual International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber [...]

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CARLETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR SPEAKER: Miguel Nacenta, University of Calgary TOPIC: Perspective and Spatial Relationships for Interface Design DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2011 TIME: 2:00 p.m. PLACE: Room 5115, Herzberg Building, Carleton University ABSTRACT Our daily activities are continuously mediated by the space that we occupy; we face people to talk to [...]

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World Usability Day 2011 10 November 2011 Education is the theme for World Usability Day 2011!

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Sketching Interfaces Presented by Doug Talbot, Bedarra Research Labs Date: Tuesday February 15, 2011 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa New: Download presentation slides (PDF 3Mb) Abstract: With less and less time devoted to upfront product design, sketching is becoming an essential skill within most software development teams. In this talk, you will [...]

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Exploring Mobile Device Comfort Presented by Steve Marsh, CRC Canada Date: Tuesday January 18, 2011 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: Convergent mobile devices are becoming increasingly powerful, and have capabilities undreamed of not so very long ago. These capabilities, however, have darker consequences when used without forethought. For instance, a camera [...]

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