Programme

Here’s the latest batch of confirmed presentations, including the opening and closing keynotes, 18 parallel presentations, and most of the interactive demos.

all (33) business (7) design (16) psychology (9) social (17) research (11) ubiquity (12)

All sessions on 'design'

Proximus Maximus: Design Imperatives from the Roman Empire to the NASA Space Program and Beyond Keynote With his insider's view of the design world, Michael will frame the business and organizational imperatives for the new millennium by reviewing the lessons of history from the Roman times to the NASA Space Program. Michael Meyer CEO, Adaptive Path
Engaging With the Future Differently – From Pyramids to Pancakes Keynote An international leader in Social Foresight for Strategy and Innovation, Josephine will show us ways to decentralise and distribute innovation, strategy and design. Josephine Green Speaker and consultant at Beyond 20: 21st century stories
GeoTherm, a proximity-based thermostat Poster Henri and Arjan will demo GeoTherm, a thermostat with a proximity-based user interface that has the potential to save 15% of the energy used for heating in 3 million Dutch households, while still providing the same thermal comfort as before. Henri ter Hofte and Arjan Peddemors Novay
How to Create Persuasive, Context-driven Services Iskander will show us principles for creating new context driven service ecosystems, illustrated with examples from design interaction practices. Iskander Smit Info.nl
Improving Resilience in Urban Search and Rescue Missions by Smart Information Exchange Poster Demo This demo will feature the interface designed for improving urban search and rescue capabilities and resilience. Marc Grootjen, Tjerk de Greef, Mark Neerincx, Jasper Lindenberg TU Delft, TNO Human Factors
Improving Resilience in Urban Search and Rescue Missions by Smart Information Exchange Mark will summarize the domain analyses results, the corresponding user interface designs, and first tests of the support functions for improving urban search and rescue capabilities and resilience. Mark Neerincx TU Delft
Playing Well With Others: Design for Augmented Reality Joe will review interaction design patterns common to augmented reality, suggest tools to improve the 'social maturity' of AR, and shares design principles for creating genuinely social augmented experiences. Joe Lamantia JoeLamantia.com
Practical Demo of a Global Parking Meter Usability Test Poster Researchers from User Intelligence will show off the test set-up that was used in a global usability study into parking meter design and discuss their findings. Martijn Klompenhouwer, Paula Deisz, Mark Kassteen User Intelligence
Scottie: remotely connected DemoScottie is a research and design project of Waag Society supported by the GATE project of NWO and ICT Regie. Scottie provides hospitalized children the possibility of feeling connected without having to use words. Will remote play with loved ones contribute to feeling connected? Betty Bonn Waag Society
Social 3.0 Steven will introduce new technologies that would allow us to arrange our social networks in different ways so that the data belongs to us. He'll discuss how they affect our interactions online and how we can adopt such technologies. Steven Pemberton CWI/W3C
The Art and Craft of Being Elsewhere The Web and similar digital spaces have to be "places" in order to provide satisfying experiences. Andrea will discuss design rules for location, action, space and time that allow for successful place-making. Andrea Resmini FatDUX
The Human Interface (Why Products are People, Too) Chris will explore diverse areas of non-digital human experience (language, storytelling, neurology and sociology) to frame and showcase some of the most exciting current and emerging user experience design practices on the web and other media. Christopher Fahey Behavior
Transition IOP-MMI - Chi Nederland
Ceremonial speech
This brief session highlights the Chi Nederland and IOP-MMI's complementary relationship and their shared objective: the growth and success of the Dutch HCI field.
Rene Collier, Sander Leer Agentschap NL, HAN University, Chi Nederland
UX Design in Agile Development Demo Poster Jasper presents his findings on how the Agile method is utilised by some of the leading Dutch web bureaus in user experience design. Jasper Oudenaarden SizeDesign
Virtual Nurse Visits In Tele-healthcare Systems Lydia discusses how tele-care systems create a feeling of proximity between patient and tele-nurse and describes functional and non-functional guidelines for tele-care systems with virtual nurse visits. Lydia Meesters Eindhoven University of Technology
When Data Gets Up Close and Personal From 'games' like the the Wii Fit to home devices that monitor energy usage, Stephen believes data can change us for the better. He will show us how to expose data in a way that influences change. Stephen Anderson PoetPainter, Mental Notes

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