Frontiers 2007 related contest

At Idearium.org, together with Kallideas Group (which has chosen to be our sponsor this year too) and the Communication Science Department of the Siena University, we have published a call for paper to be submitted before the 2nd of April 2007 to take part at the “HumanLike Interaction Contest 2007″.

The papers will be selected by a jury with Patrizia Marti from Siena University, Fabio Sergio, Associate Creative Director at Frog Design and Giorgio Manfredi, Kallideas Chair of the Board.

You can download the call for papers here.

Speaking at the World Usability Day

As previously posted, tomorrow I’ll be at the Bicocca University premises to hold a small talk at the World Usability Day 2007 (see details about the event). I’ll present UXnet – the User Experience related org I represent in Milan – introducing WHAT it is and HOW it can practically help other organizations.

Set your agenda on November 14th from 10.00am to 2.00pm (CET+1), Marco Martini Room, U6 building – Milano-Bicocca University. There’s also going to be a live webcast so you can follow the talks from your computer; stay tuned on the event official web site.

UXnet and the World Usability Day

As many of you probably know I am the UXnet ambassador for Milan, which actually means it’s my job to create connections between companies and the UX community, UX professionals and UX associations and son on.

In this continuing effort I decided to volunteer for the organization of the UPA World Usability Day at a global level becoming one of the UXnet provided Regional Liasons.

Since there’re just two of us in EU I’ve had the chance to get in touch with a whole lot of UX people from a lot of countries: UK, Spain, Belgium, Poland, France, and the list might continue… it’s been a WONDERFUL experience.

UXnet also recently welcomed Michele Visciola as ambassador for Turin and Rome. Michele also happens to be the President of the Italian UPA chapter and the organizer of the Italian WUD event in Milan (here’s the program and a list of speakers in English).

I think there shouldn’t be a better chance to talk about UXnet; yours truly has been invited for a short (short short short :-) ) talk about our community. See you there.