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 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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November 03, 2005
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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October 10, 2005
Submission reviewers and mentors
Thanks to all the thoughtful and hardworking reviewers and mentors of submissions to DUX 2005, who gave generously of their time, advice, and hard-won experience.
Reviewers:
Richard Anderson, John Armitage, Audrey Bennett, Todd Bentley, Kenneth Berger, Beth Berrean, Jacob Biehl, Brian, Blau, Agnieszka Bojko, Claudia Brenner, Marion Brown, Jakob Bruhns, Sam Bucolo, Natalie Buda, Jacob Burghardt, Wendy Castleman, Eugene Chen, Jiangping Chen, George Christou, James Combs, Jane Coughlan, Murray Crease, Abe Crystal, David Danielson, Scott Davidoff, Dena DeBry, Jean-Yves Delort, Janna DeVylder, Clark Dodsworth, Hugh Dubberly, Marc Fabri, Mark FelcanSmith, Jodi Forlizzi, Nate Fortin, Brooke Foucault, Timothy French, Nancy Frishberg, Uday Gajendar, Carrie Gilbert, Steven Gilman, Steve Gilmore, Elizabeth Goodman, Jeff Gothelf, John Grimes, Jaime Guerrero, Steve Harrison, Carrie Heeter, Mike Herold, DJ Hoets, David Hoffer, Matthew Holloway, Stefan Holmlid, Shamsi Iqbal, Frankie James, Gabe Johnson, Casey Jones, Syahrul Junaini, Kyeong Kang, Thomas Kannampallil, Charalampos Karagiannidis, Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, Jesper Kjeldskov, Jon Kolko, Per-Ola Kristensson, Thomas Koltringer, Edward Lank, JoRoan Lazaro, Nicole Lazzaro, Riad Lemhachheche, Nancy Lightner, Min Lin, Marcus Lynch, Catriona Macaulay, Sascha Mahlke, Erin Malone, Eliana Martella, Helena Mentis, Michel Milano, Jessica Miller, Kevin Mitchell, Lena Miyamoto, Andrew Vande Moere, Jaime Montemayor, Robert Mori, Sudhindra Venkatesha Murthy, Doug Murray, Guadalupe Munoz, Raquel Navarro-Prieto, Ken Ohnemus, Aaron Oppenheimer, Erika Orrick, Joseph O'Sullivan, Benoit Otjacques, Haunani Pao, Katerina Pastra, John Payne, David Pinelle, Lubomir Popov, Steve Portigal, Scott Preece, Rakhi Rajani, Frank Ramirez, Jens Riegelsberger, David Robertson, Scott Robertson, Andres Rodriguez, Ruben Rohde, Stacie Rohrbach, Dan Saffer, Daniel Salber, Justine Sanderson, Tania Schlatter, Garrick Schmitt, Stuart Schmukler, N. Sadat Shami, Brian Smith, Juhan Sonin, Molly Steenson, Mark Stringer, Simone Stumpf, Sriram Subramanian, Ann Sunhachawee, Terry Swack, Ronnie Taib, Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Bettina Thurnher, Michael Tuminello, Manas Tungare, Michael Twidale, Frank Vetere, Annette Wagner, Jim Waters, Alan Wexelblat, Mikael Wiberg, Todd Wilkens, Maria Wimmer, Susan Wolfe, Bryan Wu, Susan Wyche, Lu Xiao, Lu Yan, Nicole Yankelovich, Calvin C. Yu, Danielle Zeedick, Betsy Zeller
Mentors:
Peter Benson, Matt Cottam, Clark Dodsworth, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Meghan Ede, Nancy Frishberg, Barb Helfer, David Heller, Judee Humburg, A. J. Kim, Dirk Knemeyer, John Payne, Vesna Popovic, Whitney Quesenberry, Rakhi Rajani, Marc Rettig, Michal Ann Rogodino, Garrett Schmitt, Rashmi Sinha, Mitchell Yawitz
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