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November 15, 2005
Additional acknowledgements
Many contributed lots of time and effort to DUX 2005, and the contributions of many of these have been acknowledged in previous postings. However, many more also warrant our thanks.
Particular thanks go to Betsy Johnsmiller (pictured), Conference Manager.
Special thanks also to: the Sponsorship Chairs -- Robin Bahr, Fred Sampson, and Hugh Dubberly; Internet Support -- Carly Tanaka-Lubensky, Chris Schmechel, and Michael Kellner; Emeritus Advisors -- Jonathan Arnowitz and Aaron Marcus; Media Consultants -- Sylvia Paull and Liz Danzico; Conference Identity Designers: Zago Design; and all the conference attendees.
Additional thanks go to the following people and companies:
Bay Area Video Coalition; Hewlett-Packard Company; Dodsworth Associates; Bluerock Technologies; Riander; Event Alchemy; James Stewart of Precision Conference Systems; Ric Wanetik and David Hagans of Ricochet; Claudia Brenner; Laurie Brown, Jennifer Antos, Sharon Walton, Bill Keller, and the stage technicians of the Fort Mason Center; Jessica Wilmers, Caryn Chan, and Erica Johnson of ACM; Elizabeth Rosenzweig; Chuck Moore; Terry Swack; Wattle Creek Winery; Pabini Gabriel-Petit; Ryan Reposar of Dubberly Design Office; Super Shuttle; BreakPoint Books; Keith Instone; Guide Publishing Group; Signworks; Hotel del Sol; McCune; 111 Minna; and the many, many more that should also be listed here.
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November 11, 2005
The look of DUX 2005
flickr offers a multidimensional look at DUX 2005, courtesy of conference attendees. Search for photos tagged with dux05 or dux2005. (Photos appearing in several blog entries are there for you to access.)
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November 05, 2005
Conference sessions during days 2 and 3
Days 2 and 3 of DUX 2005 included panels of authors of case studies, practice studies, research studies, and sketches from 11 countries -- sessions intended to be designed
to highlight and contrast key elements of the accepted submissions, to comment on industry trends, and to help attendees identify papers in the proceedings they'd want to be sure to read in detail.
Poster sessions filled the long Bayfront Gallery with attendees discussing case study specifics with authors.
An invited panel of distinguished designers discussed industry trends.
And Edward Tenner (pictured at right being interviewed by Heather Gold) closed with an insightful, historical perspective on innovation and adaptation to the unforseen.
Thanks to all the participants in these many sessions, to all those who submitted papers to the conference, and to the many submission reviewers and mentors. Special thanks to Program Chairs Rakhi Rajani, Clark Dodsworth, and Nancy Frishberg.
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November 04, 2005
Opening plenary at DUX 2005
San Francisco's Cowell Theater, site of thousands of dance, music, comedy, and theatrical performances, provided the perfect setting to explore the relationship between stage performance and designing for user experience.
Heather Gold provided comedic insight, to be integrated throughout the conference in her role as emcee.
J.Walt provided a moving graphic performance combining video, animation, gestural drawing, sculpture, music, and dance, taking interactive graphics into uncharted territories.
And Tony Award winning Bill Irwin dazzled with his insights from years on the stage about the language of the body and important lessons which "improv" offers to designers.
Dinner and conversation in the historic Fort Mason Center Firehouse brought day 1 of DUX 2005 to a late evening close.
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Opening day at DUX 2005
Hundreds of conference attendees spent the opening day of DUX 2005 attending tutorials (including Methodology of Visualization, pictured below left) and/or touring San Francisco studios (including frog design, Gensler, and Odopod, pictured above).
Many thanks to the 15 studios and to the instructors of the 6 tutorials. Special thanks to Studio Tours Producer Maia Garau (pictured above right) and to Program Co-Chair Rakhi Rajani who worked on development of both the tutorial and studio tours offerings.
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November 03, 2005
DUX 2005 opens today!
If you are registered for DUX 2005, we look forward to seeing you soon!
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Conference volunteers
Several people will be helping out in very important ways throughout the conference. All of these people are fully involved in the field of designing for user experience, and many are here from far away.
If you need assistance at any time during the conference, look for:
Volunteer Chair Teresa Hardy (pictured), Judith Blankman, Steven Dow, Matthew Kam, Mark Meagher, Dan Perkel, Michael Kelly, William Hall, Chantal Mora, Susan Michael, Josh Evnin, Marcela Musgrove, Sara Thomas, Rachel Murray, Jennifer Lee, Ann Kim, or Adele Framer
You'll be able to spot them in their distinctive DUX 2005 volunteer t-shirts.
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November 02, 2005
Final preparations underway
We are at the Fort Mason Center today, making final preparations for DUX 2005.
Bill Irwin
has arrived (that is Bill in conversation with Conference Chairs Brian Blau, left, and Richard Anderson, center).
Volunteers are here placing program CDs in sleeves within printed programs. Conference bags are being stuffed with an assortment of items. Attendee badges and badge ribbons are being prepared. Boxes of books for the bookstore are being unloaded. etc. etc.
The opening of DUX 2005 is only a day away.
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DUX 2005 starts tomorrow!
Yes, tomorrow is Thursday, 3 November -- the opening day of DUX 2005.
Registration Chair Jeff Jortner, pictured at left, will be at your service at the registration desk in Building C, Room C165 from 8am to ~2pm. At ~2pm, Jeff will move his operation to the lobby of the Cowell Theater, location of the evening's opening plenary session.
If you are registered for a morning or full-day tutorial, be sure to arrive at the Fort Mason Center early -- as close to 8am as possible -- so to check in, pick up all your registration materials, and get to the room of your tutorial by 9am.
If you are coming to register for a studio tour, arrive as early as possible since the studio tours are in another part of San Francisco. Studio tours run at different times between 10am and 4pm.
If you are registered for an afternoon tutorial, try to arrive as close to 12:30pm as possible, one hour before your 1:30pm tutorial starts.
Everyone else registered for the conference should arrive as much before the 5:30pm opening plenary start as possible, since the opening plenary is slated to start on time.
More complete instructions appear in an earlier blog entry, as does information about parking, driving, and public transportation, and about getting to the Fort Mason Center from the conference hotel.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the start of DUX 2005!
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DUX 2005 bookstore
DUX 2005 will feature a bookstore offering UX-related titles for sale from numerous publishers. Among those publishers:
Penguin, SAMS Publishing, MIT Press, John Wiley and Sons, Hungry Mind, Charles River Media, Premier Press, Springer Verlag, Cambridge University Press, HarperCollins, AMACOM, McGraw Hill, Neal Publishing, PeachPit Press, Addison Wesley, New Riders, Heinemann, O'Reilly, Chronicle Press, Morgan Kaufman, Prentice Hall, Rockport Press, Academic Press, Focal Press, Financial Times, Random House, AK Peters
The bookstore will be open throughout the conference, starting Thursday evening and ending Saturday afternoon.
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November 01, 2005
Conference sessions featuring accepted submissions
As blogged earlier, a subset of accepted submissions will be featured as posters in the Bayfront Gallery and highlighted during two conference sessions when authors will be available for discussion.
All other accepted submissions will be featured during 90-minute panel sessions in the Cowell Theater.
Exactly how they will be featured will depend on how the sessions have been designed. In most cases, each presenter will have a short period of time for a high-level presentation or to highlight select aspects of their submission. Session chairs will weave together multiple presentations with discussion among panelists and Q&A, including questions from the audience.
Accepted submissions to be addressed during these panel sessions are listed on the DUX 2005 website. Note that the order papers are listed on the website is random -- it may have no resemblance to the order in which those papers will be addressed during the panels.
What kinds of submissions were solicited for the conference? See the Call for Participation for descriptions of Design Case Studies, Design Practice Studies, Design Research Studies, and Design Sketches. Panel sessions will often feature submissions from a mix of these submission categories.
Full papers for all submissions featured during the conference will be provided to registered attendees on a CD, and will later be made available via the AIGA case study archive and the ACM Digital Library.
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