Conferences and courses in technical communication, information architecture, and information design

Events latest to earliest

For events after December 2005, please visit the events calendar being compiled with the Online SIG at http://www.stcsig.org/oi/on_conferences.htm.

Undated entries were posted in May 2005. Many 2005 events take place every two years. This listing is being retained for reference.

November 2005
Designing for User Experiences, San Francisco, CA, November 3-5, 2005.
http://www.dux2005.org/

5th International Conference on Plain Language, Washington, DC, November 3-6, 2005.
http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/conferences/2005/index.html. Posted August 2005.

October 2005
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005: Salience in Discourse, Berlin Germany, October 5-8, 2005.
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~mad05/

User Interface Conference 10. Cambridge, MA, October 10-13. http://www.uie.com/events/uiconf/. Posted August 2005.

European IA Summit. Building Communities. Brussels, Belgium, October 15-16, 2005. Proposals due July 31. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/IA/euia.html. Conference information on the ID SIG News page. Posted June 2005.

STC Training Program, October 20-21, 2005. Crystal City, Virginia (near Washington, DC). Details on the News page.

Infovis 2005: Information Visualization, Minneapolis, MN, October 23-25, 2005. http://infovis.org/infovis/2005/

Enterprise Information Architecture with Lou Rosenfeld. Seattle, WA, October 20-21, 2005. http://www.louisrosenfeld.com/eia. Posted July 2005.

UIST 2005, Seattle, WA, October 23-26 . http://www.acm.org/uist/

ASIST Annual Conference. Charlotte, NC. October 28 to November 2.
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM05/index.html.

September 2005
The 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, September 5-9, 2005: "The Bigger Picture". http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2005/

The Information Design International Conference. São Paulo, Brazil, September 8-10, 2005.
http://deed.ryerson.ca/datr/MailArchive/designlist/msg00210.html

Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome, Italy, September 12-16, 2005. http://www.interact2005.org/

Enterprise Information Architecture with Lou Rosenfeld. September 15-16, Washington, and September 29-30, 2005, Chicago, IL. http://www.louisrosenfeld.com/eia. Posted July 2005.

SIGDOC 2005: The 23rd International Conference on Design of Communication, Coventry, UK, September 21-23, 2005. http://www.sigdoc.org/2005/

July 2005
Vision Plus 11: Needs, Trends, and Themes for Information Design, Vienna Austria, July 7-9, 2005.
http://www.iiid-visionplus.net/

IIID / AIGA Summer Academy 2005: "(Im)Material Exchange", South Tyrol, Italy, July 11-23, 2005. http://www.iiid.net/SummerAcademy.htm

HCI 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 22-27, 2005. http://www.hci-international.org/

June 2005
2005 UPA: Bridging Cultures (Usability Professionals' Association), Montreal, Canada, June 27-July 1 2005.
http://www.upassoc.org/conferences_and_events/upa_conference/2005/

May 2005
STC Conference: Experiencing Technical Communication, Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2005.
http://www.stc.org/52ndConf/

April 2005
SIG CHI: Technology, Safety, Community, April 2-7, 2005. http://www.chi2005.org/

March 2005
The Sixth International Conference of the European Academy of Design, University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany, March 29-31, 2005. http://ead06.hfk-bremen.de/

February 2005
TED 2005: Inspired By Nature, Monterey, CA, February 23-26, 2005.
http://www.ted.com/ted2005/index.cfm?flashEnabled=1

Ongoing

STC remote web seminars. http://www.stc.org/seminarsList.asp.

The graduate school at the US Department of Agriculture offers an information architecture course periodically.
http://grad.usda.gov/cgi-bin/course/search.cgi?csearch_cno=COMP3308E. Posted July 2005.

Cooper U Classes. Alan Cooper. http://www.cooper.com/content/cooperu/classes.asp. Posted December 2005.

Information Design online certificate program. http://www.online-learning.com.

Studio One. Fit Associates, Marc Rettig. http://www.fitassociates.com/studioOne.htm. Posted December 2005.

Acknowledgements

Beth Mazur identified most of the information design events initially. Scott Abel provided significant additions for the 2006 calendar.