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2011-11-15 Vision-based Human-Computer Interaction: Past Approaches and New Developments
Vision-based Human-Computer Interaction: Past Approaches and New Developments Presented by Ali Arya Date: Tuesday November 15, 2011 Time: doors open at 6:00 pm; talk begins at 6:30 pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa, ON, Canada Abstract: Using cameras to detect human motion has been a topic of research in computer vision research for decades. [...]
2011-11-05 UXCamp Ottawa
UXCamp Ottawa Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011 Time: 9am – 4pm Location: University of Ottawa, Lamoureux Building, Room 122 UXCamp Ottawa is returning on November 5, 2011. If you’re interested in User Experience, this might be a great way to spend a Saturday. A bit about UXCamp: UXCamp Ottawa is for people who want to [...]
2011-10-18 Becoming The User: Adventures in Money and Blood
Becoming The User: Adventures in Money and Blood Presented by Andy Maloney Date: Tuesday October 18, 2011 Time: doors open at 6:00 pm; talk begins at 6:30 pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: “You are not the user” is often presented as a [sometimes not-so-gentle] reminder to designers that usually you are not [...]
2011-09-20 Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Improving the Web through collaboration
Web Experience Toolkit (WET): Improving the Web through collaboration Presented by Paul Jackson, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Government of Canada Date: Tuesday September 20, 2011 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: The Web Experience Toolkit (WET) is a collection of open source tools and solutions that enable web developers to create [...]
2011-10-24 Follow the UX Leader – Workshops on Advanced Web Practices (Vancouver)
Follow the UX Leader – Workshops on Advanced Web Practices (Vancouver) At Follow the UX Leader we believe in learning by doing. That’s why we’ve created a series of training workshops on advanced web practices that throw out the PowerPoint paradigm and shift the learning back to the way it was when we were kids: [...]
2011-06-21 Seductive Interaction: The Psychology of Adoption
Seductive Interaction: The Psychology of Adoption Presented by Amanda Holtstrom, Consultant, non~linear creations Date: Tuesday June 21, 2011 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: You’re probably already familiar with design tricks to encourage the user behavior that you want — bigger buttons, color choice, font choice, and so on. There are other strategies, [...]
2011-05-17 The Path to Making Drupal 7 More Accessible
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 [...]
2011-04-19 Mobile and Social, UX strategies for the Client and Citizen
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 [...]
2011-04-20 Privacy in the Design of Intimate Devices
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 [...]
2011-05-16 Follow The UX Leader Training Workshops
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, [...]
2011-03-15 March Event Canceled
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 [...]
2011-04-01 VizSec2011 Call for Papers
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 [...]
2011-02-25 Seminar: Perspective and Spatial Relationships for Interface Design
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 [...]
2011-11-10 World Usability Day 2011
World Usability Day 2011 10 November 2011 Education is the theme for World Usability Day 2011!
2011-02-15 Sketching Interfaces
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 [...]
2011-01-18 Exploring Mobile Device Comfort
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 [...]
2011-03-19 CSCW 2011
CSCW 2011 The 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work March 19–23, 2011 · Hangzhou, China CSCW 2011 will be the twenty-third CSCW conference and will be held on the edge of scenic West Lake in Hangzhou, China from March 19–23. We are very excited to host CSCW in Asia this year, the first [...]
2011-06-21 UPA 2011
UPA 2011 Designing for Social Change Usability Professionals’ Association – International Conference June 21-24, 2011 Atlanta, GA, USA Join us now as we celebrate our history, and Designing for Social Change. We invite the broad cultures that are now UPA. We invite the originators and contributors who have appeared and worked over the last twenty [...]
2010-12-14 CapCHI Holiday Social Event 2010
CapCHI Holiday Social Event 2010 Date: Tuesday December 14, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Friends of CapCHI and their guests are invited for an open and informal social, sharing and networking event — we will be supplying the snacks! This is your chance! Bring along any hot topics or burning issues [...]
2011-01-24 Follow The UX Leader Training Workshops
Follow The UX Leader Training Workshops Date: January 24, 26, and 27, 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, [...]
2010-11-16 Usability and Security of Android, Google’s Open Source Smartphone System
Usability and Security of Android, Google’s Open Source Smartphone System Presented by David Barrera Date: Tuesday November 16, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: The adoption of Android-based smartphones is growing at a rapid pace (nearly 200,000 activations per day) which has placed Google among the top smartphone system vendors worldwide. [...]
2010-10-21 Real World Accessibility for Ajax and Web Apps Workshop
Real World Accessibility for Ajax and Web Apps Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 21st, 2010 9:00am – 4:30pm Your reputation—and the reputation of your agency or company—depends on bulletproof, functionally elegant web apps that will work now and in the future. Using your application shouldn’t frustrate users; their experience, regardless of who they are, should be [...]
2010-10-19 A User Study of 3D Viewing Technologies in a Museum Context
A User Study of 3D Viewing Technologies in a Museum Context Presented by Jean-François Lapointe, Institute for Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada (IIT NRC) Date: Tuesday October 19, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: The use of interactive 3D viewing technologies in museums is still in its [...]
2011-05-07 CHI 2011
CHI 2011 May 7-12, 2011 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. CHI 2011 focuses on leveraging our diversity and connecting people, cultures, technologies, experiences, and ideas. CHI 2011 will be held in gorgeous, energetic, sophisticated Vancouver BC, a city [...]
2010-09-21 Software Development and Culture: Learning to Play Together
Software Development and Culture: Learning to Play Together Presented by Robert Biddle, Carleton University Date: Tuesday September 21, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: Software development means collaboration, and increasingly this collaboration must cross boundaries of organizational and national culture. Projects in multi-cultural settings involve countless challenges, including not only collaboration, [...]
2010-11-03 Task Management: a New Model of Management for Websites
Task Management: a New Model of Management for Websites Gerry McGovern World-renowned Web Content and Usability Expert 2010 Masterclass Series by Gerry McGovern Date: Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 Location: Canada Science and Technology Museum Gerry’s Masterclasses sold out in Ottawa on the previous two occasions. This year’s Masterclass is totally revised, with brand new content from [...]
2010-11-11 World Usability Day
World Usability Day 2010 11 November 2010 Communication is the theme for World Usability Day 2010!
2010-09-20 User Experience / Masterclass
User Experience / Masterclass One-day international conference on User Experience Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 7:30 to 17:30 Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montréal, Québec, Canada A special rate for associations and groups is available (see below)… Yu Centrik, Canadian partner of UXalliance, the international network of specialized user experience (UX) companies, invites a team of [...]
2010-08-16 Interactionary HCI Design Challenge (Summary)
The CapCHI Interactionary 2010 By Master of Ceremonies, Michelle Gauthier, CAE Professional Services The Background An eager local CHI community gathered on June 17th, 2010, for an Interactionary event held by CapCHI. Four brave teams arrived to tackle a design problem within an insane time constraint, all the while working together in front of a [...]
2010-10-19 Follow The UX Leader Training Workshop
Follow The UX Leader Training Workshop Date: October 19, 20, and 26 (note new dates) 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! Web Writing Course Information Architecture Training User Experience Training / Usability Training Follow The UX Leader brings [...]
2010-06-16 OSQA Talk: Quick and Agile User Feedback Methods
Quick and Agile User Feedback Methods NOTE: NEW LOCATION! DATE: Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 TIME: 6:30PM Networking; 7PM-9PM Presentation PLACE: Carleton University, University Centre, Room 279 University Centre, is next to Parking Lot 2, and contains the bookstore, etc. Room 376 is on the third floor. Please refer to map: http://osqa.org/map.asp COST: $10.00, free for [...]
2010-06-24 Interactionary HCI Design Challenge and AGM
Date: Thursday June 24, 2010 (NOTE: New Date!) Time: 6:00pm Place: Clocktower Brew Pub, 575 Bank Street, Ottawa (NOTE: New Location!) See http://www.capchi.org/events Our last session of the season will begin with our Annual General Meeting in which we briefly reviewed the activities and finances from this year, and make plans for next year (including [...]
2010-05-18 CHIlights and CHIstuds
Date: Tuesday May 18, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa CHIlights will feature highlights from the CHI 2010 conference and other conferences. Members from the CapCHI community will present their own personal views of recent HCI-related conferences, including highlights, lowlights, trends, observations and photos. CHIstuds will feature brief presentations highlighting student projects [...]
2010-04-20 Dmitry Nekrasovski on “Surviving and thriving as a UX professional in an Agile development organization”
Title: Surviving and thriving as a UX professional in an Agile development organization Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa New: Slides can be found here… http://slidesha.re/b5tdE7 Abstract: Over the last decade, the Agile movement has been sweeping the world of software development by storm. Agile is more than [...]
2010-03-16 Thom Kearney on “Bringing the social web to Government”
Title: Bringing the social web to Government – An inside out approach Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: This case study will provide a rare look behind the firewall at one of the most ambitious and exciting initiatives to come out of Canada this year. GCPEDIA, an [...]
2010-03-02 IGDA Ottawa Gaming Community RoundTables Event
IGDA Ottawa (International Game Developers Association) is pleased to announce a round tables event — we have 5 topics for you to choose from! Time to have a real sit-down chat with other members of the community and maybe teach them a thing or two in the process. Everyone interested in the gaming community of [...]
2010-02-16 Jeff Parks on “Being Human is NOT Quantifiable”
Title: Being Human is NOT Quantifiable Date: Tuesday February16th, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: Technology has taken much of our humanity. Hard data and quantitative measurement while important have begun in many ways to dominate the choices we make in both business and government. And yet, we are trying to [...]
CapCHI Student Research Travel Supplement for CHI 2010 Competition
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 [...]
2010-01-19 Michelle Gauthier on User-Centred Design, A Cultural Challenge
Title: User-Centred Design: A Cultural Challenge Date: Tuesday January19th, 2010 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa CapCHI Presentation Jan 2010c Abstract: The quality of interactive experience with technology is produced in a particular cultural context and only determined or evaluated in the context of use. Incorporation of cultural factors in design thinking and [...]
2009-12-15 Stacey Scott on Tabletop Interfaces
Title: Next Generation Digital Tabletop Interfaces: Moving Beyond Photosharing Date: Tuesday Dec 15th, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: Even before Microsoft announced the Surface system in 2007, the Human-Computer Interaction community was actively researching digital tabletop technologies since Pierre Wellner proposed the DigitalDesk in 1991. Yet only very recent and [...]
2009-11-17 Tara Whalen on Security Interfaces in Web Browsers
Title: Browser Interfaces and Extended Validation SSL Certificates Date: Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract Secure socket layer (SSL) certificates have been deployed to provide security for web-based transactions, which allow information to be transmitted securely as well as provide information about the party a user is transacting [...]
2010-05-31 Graphics Interface Conference
Graphics Interface 2010 will take place in Ottawa, Ontario from May 31 to June 2. GI 2010 will be the 36th Graphics Interface conference; it is the oldest continuously-scheduled conference in the field. GI consistently attracts high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics, from around the world. Graphics Interface [...]
2009-11-12 World Usability Day – Ottawa
Designing for a Sustainable World. Time and Date: Thursday Nov. 12, 2009, 5:30-7:30pm Location: The Code Factory, 246 Queen St., 2nd Floor, Ottawa Organizers: Macadamian, Akendi, CapCHI The global theme for World Usability Day 2009 is how our products and services impact our world. Let World Usability Day 2009 be your impetus to create greater [...]
2009-10-22 Sam Trosow
Title: Applying Privacy by Design concepts to Copyright Policy presented by Sam Trosow Date: Thursday October 22, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Abstract: There is a growing convergence in the areas of copyright and privacy policies and it is becoming problematic to think of these two distinct fields in isolation. This [...]
2009-09-15 Anthony Whitehead on Personal Sensor Networks as Input Devices, 6pm @ TheCodeFactory
Anthony Whitehead on Personal Sensor Networks as Input Devices Date: Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa See http://www.capchi.org/events Title: Personal Sensor Networks as Input Devices Abstract: Personal sensor networks are also known as Body Area Networks and consist of sensor placed on various parts or around the body. In [...]
2009-05-20 Maven – How to automate Java building, testing and version management with open source tools
This event may be of interest to the CapCHI community… Maven – How to automate Java building, testing and version management with open source tools SPEAKER: Erik Putrycz, Apption Software DATE: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 TIME: 6:30PM Networking; 7PM-9PM Presentation PLACE: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., 2nd floor, Ottawa (between Bank and Kent, above the Green [...]
2009-06-15 Workshop on Real World Accessibility for Ajax and Web Apps
Workshop on Real World Accessibility for Ajax and Web Apps Presented by Derek Featherstone June 15, 2009 Ottawa, Ontario http://furtherahead.com/workshops/ottawa2009/ Your reputation—and the reputation of your agency or company—depends on bulletproof, functionally elegant web apps that will work now and in the future. Using your application shouldn’t frustrate users; their experience, regardless of who they [...]
2009-05-25 Creating Customer-Centric and Recession-Proof Websites
Creating Customer-Centric and Recession-Proof Websites 2009 Masterclass series presented by Gerry McGovern, World-renowned Web content and usability expert Ottawa – Monday May 25 Toronto – Tuesday May 26 Vancouver – Thursday May 28 Edmonton – Friday May 29 Gerry McGovern will be returning to Canada in May with an updated version of the Masterclass that [...]
2009-06-25 ToRCHI and Toronto IxDA Advanced Workshop
FYI… Advanced workshop presented by ToRCHI and Toronto IxDA Workshop leaders: Carol Righi and Janice James Workshop topic: Deep dive on selected topics in IA and UX DATE: Thursday, June 25th, 2009 DURATION: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Networking lunch will follow. LOCATION: Downtown Toronto, venue TBA COST: $100 for people also registered for the 1-day course. $250 [...]
2009-06-24 TorCHI and Toronto IxDA Course
FYI… One-day course presented by ToRCHI and Toronto IxDA Carol Righi and Janice James present two of their most popular courses on user experience (UX)design and information architecture (IA) for web sites and applications. DATE: Wednesday, June 24 TIME: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with registration starting at 8:30 AM LOCATION: Downtown Toronto > Ryerson [...]
2009-06-24 CHIStuds 2009 and AGM
CapCHI Meeting: CHIStuds & AGM, June 24, 7pm @ TheCodeFactory Date: Wed. June 24, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa The next CapCHI meeting will be held Wed. June 24, 7-9pm at TheCodeFactory. Our last session of the season will begin with our annual general meeting in which we briefly reviewed the [...]
2009-05-19 Lorraine Chapman on Using Research to Create Software Users Love
Lorraine Chapman on Using Research to Create Software Users Love Date: Tuesday May 19, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa See http://www.capchi.org/events Title: “Using Research to Create Software Users Love”. Abstract: Wonder why so many software products/projects fail? Want to do something to increase your success rate? This presentation focuses on applying [...]
2009-04-21 CHILights
Highlights from the CHI 2009 conference and other conferences. Date: Tuesday April 21, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa See http://www.capchi.org/events Members from the CapCHI community will present their own personal views of recent HCI-related conferences, including highlights, lowlights, trends, observations and photos. Most notable will be highlights from CHI 2009 Conference [...]
2009-03-17 Mark McKay on Accessible Interface Design
Accessible Interface Design: tips, patterns and concepts to making accessible web applications Presented by Mark McKay Date: Tuesday March 17, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa There are a lot of places where you can learn about the standards but there is almost no information on how best to apply them. This [...]
2009-02-17 Pippin Barr and Rilla Khaled on Cultures in Games and Games in Cultures
Pippin Barr and Rilla Khaled on Cultures in Games and Games in Cultures Date: February 17, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Title: Cultures in Games and Games in Cultures Abstract: Much has been made of the cultures surrounding video game play, but less work has examined the nature of the cultures [...]
2009-01-21 E-Business Cluster Event on Web 2.0
This event might be of interest… eBC Presents: 2 Years in Web 2.0 Land – What I Learned Wednesday January 21, 2009 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. bitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (East side of Westgate Mall) Registration: FREE of charge - please rsvp to mdascal@ocri.ca. Complimentary snacks and beverages will be provided. The Ottawa eBusiness [...]
2008-11-19: e-Commerce: Finding, Keeping and Converting Website Traffic
This eBusiness Cluster event might be of interest to the HCI community… Date: Wednesday November 19, 2008 Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Location: bitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (East side of Westgate Mall) Cost: FREE of charge – please rsvp to mdascal@ocri.ca Complimentary snacks and beverages will be provided. The Ottawa eBusiness Cluster invites you to attend [...]
2008-11-13: OCRI/Macadamian Session on Software Usability, 7:30am @ Brookstreet Hotel
This event may be of interest to the CapCHI community… Software Usability: Listening to the Voice of the User OCRI and Macadamian Partnered Event – November 13, 2008 Brookstreet Hotel 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Panelists Scott McEwen, Cognos, an IBM company Michael Baynger, March Networks Scott Plewes, Macadamian Software Engineering Moderator Lorraine Chapman, Macadamian [...]
2008-11-19 OSQA Meeting on Agile Testing, 7pm @ TheCodeFactory
This event might be of interest to the CapCHI community… TITLE: Agile Testing: Practical Approaches to Quality that Get Results DATE: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 TIME: 6:30PM Networking; 7PM-9PM Presentation PLACE: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., 2nd floor, Ottawa (between Bank and Kent, above the Green Papaya Restaurant) Parking is free on the street after 18h [...]
2008-11-13 Global World Usability Day
This year’s theme: Transportation World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around [...]
2008-10-07: Kellogg Booth on Collaboration Technology @ Carleton U, Oct 7, 7:00pm
CapCHI folks may be interested in this event. Please RSVP to Carleton U using the instructions below. COGNOS Innovation Lecture: Collaborating on, with, and about Technology Tuesday, October 7, 2008 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. 5050 Minto Building, Carleton University Collaboration technology is the hardware, software, and social processes that support people working together to accomplish [...]
2008-11-13 Gord Hopkins on Designing Website Navigation Based on Top Task Management
Date: November 13, 2008 World Usability Day Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Learn how to apply best-practices in contextual navigation strategies to increase productivity, conversions and engagement. Gord Hopkins, from Neo Insight (Customer Carewords partner with Gerry McGovern), will discuss how a well-designed, context-sensitive navigation scheme can help customers quickly accomplish their [...]
2008-10-21: Derek Featherstone on Web Accessibility: The Next Wave
Date: Oct. 21, 2008 Time: 7:00pm Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa Presenter: Derek Featherstone Topic: Accessibility: The Next Wave Abstract: For 10 years, we’ve seen continued improvement in web accessbility — both from an awareness and technique perspective. But the web does not stand still. It evolves. It grows. And, its workers innovate to [...]
2008-12-16 Julian Dolce on Flash CS4: A Guided Tour
Dec. 16, 2008, 7:00pm @ The Code Factory Speaker: Julian Dolce, Director of Creative Technologies, Fuel Industries Flash CS4: A Guided Tour Join Julian as he takes you through a guided tour of all the new features in Flash CS4. From Pixel Bender Shader Language, new 3D transformations, to the new Sound and Drawing API’s, [...]
2008-09-16 Identity Theft
Protecting the Data Double: A case study of Identity Theft Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Time: 7-9 pm Location: The Code Factory (http://www.thecodefactory.ca/) Abstract: This paper analyses how major institutions are publicly responding to the crime of identity theft. It concentrates on how individuals are encouraged to responsibilize themselves against this potentiality, and what they [...]
CapCHI is on summer break for July and August!
CapCHI is on summer break for July and August! Look for our Next Meeting in September 2008…
Meeting – February 26, 2008 at Corel
Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design Presented by Jennifer Fraser Date: Tuesday February 26, 2008 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Location: Corel NOTE LOCATION! Abstract Vitruvius, the first Roman Architect to write about architecture, asserted that any well-designed building must exhibit the three qualities of “firmitas, utilitas, venustas” or be durable, useful and beautiful. [...]
Meeting – February 12, 2008 at BitHeads
The CRC/NRC Virtual Classroom Program Presented by John Spence, Martin Brooks, & Bruno Emond Date: Tuesday February 12, 2008 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Location: bitHeads, Inc. Sponsored by Design Interpretive! Abstract The virtual classroom program is managed by the Communication Research Centre in Ottawa and the Institute for Information Technology (National Research Council Canada). [...]
Meeting – March 3, 2008 at BitHeads
Early Childhood Learning, Cultural Play, and Open License Children’s Music with Songchild.org Presented by Jason Nolan and Danny Bakan Date: Monday March 03, 2008 Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Location: bitHeads, Inc. Sponsored by Design Interpretive! Abstract Songchild is a wiki-based collaboration between a scholar and a professional musician (Danny Bakan) that seeks to re-infuse [...]
World Usability Day 2007 in Ottawa
Join us on Thursday November 8th at the RA Centre for the World Usability Day 2007 activities in Ottawa! This year’s theme is Healthcare.The event in Ottawa will include a Usability in Healthcare Showcase in the morning, and a Usability Exhibition and Live Usability Testing demos in the afternoon. CapCHI will be participating as an [...]