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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0003.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From david.farbey at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 23:32:24 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:24 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Technical Communication UK 2009" Message-ID: <49DBC668.7090808@googlemail.com> Members of the Info Design cafe may be interested in a new conference on technical communication being launched this year by the ISTC (http://www.istc.org.uk), under the headline "Technical Communication UK 2009". More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0004.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From david.farbey at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 23:32:24 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:24 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Technical Communication UK 2009" Message-ID: <49DBC668.7090808@googlemail.com> Members of the Info Design cafe may be interested in a new conference on technical communication being launched this year by the ISTC (http://www.istc.org.uk), under the headline "Technical Communication UK 2009". More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0005.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0006.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0007.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0008.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0010.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0011.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0012.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0013.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0015.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0016.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0017.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0018.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0019.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0020.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0021.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0022.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. Karen Schriver, PhD KSA Communication Design & Research, Inc. 33 Potomac Street Oakmont, Pennsylvania 15139 USA kschriver at earthlink.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0017.htm From david.farbey at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 23:32:24 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:24 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Technical Communication UK 2009" Message-ID: <49DBC668.7090808@googlemail.com> Members of the Info Design cafe may be interested in a new conference on technical communication being launched this year by the ISTC (http://www.istc.org.uk), under the headline "Technical Communication UK 2009". More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0023.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0018.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From david.farbey at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 23:32:24 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:24 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Technical Communication UK 2009" Message-ID: <49DBC668.7090808@googlemail.com> Members of the Info Design cafe may be interested in a new conference on technical communication being launched this year by the ISTC (http://www.istc.org.uk), under the headline "Technical Communication UK 2009". More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0024.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0019.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0025.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0021.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0002.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0026.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0003.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0027.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0023.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0004.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/290bdd73/attachment-0004.htm From david.farbey at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 23:32:24 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:24 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Technical Communication UK 2009" Message-ID: <49DBC668.7090808@googlemail.com> Members of the Info Design cafe may be interested in a new conference on technical communication being launched this year by the ISTC (http://www.istc.org.uk), under the headline "Technical Communication UK 2009". More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0024.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0005.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0029.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0025.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0006.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0030.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0026.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0007.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0031.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0027.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0008.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0032.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0009.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/290bdd73/attachment-0009.htm From david.farbey at googlemail.com Tue Apr 7 23:32:24 2009 From: david.farbey at googlemail.com (David Farbey) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:32:24 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: "Technical Communication UK 2009" Message-ID: <49DBC668.7090808@googlemail.com> Members of the Info Design cafe may be interested in a new conference on technical communication being launched this year by the ISTC (http://www.istc.org.uk), under the headline "Technical Communication UK 2009". More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0033.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0029.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0010.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0034.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0011.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0035.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0031.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0012.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0036.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0013.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0037.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0033.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0014.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0038.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0034.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0015.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0039.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0035.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0016.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0040.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0036.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0017.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0041.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0037.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0018.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0042.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0038.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0019.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0043.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0039.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0020.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0044.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0040.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0021.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0045.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0041.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0022.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0046.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0042.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0023.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0047.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop aims to make progress towards a framework of guidance to support information designers and writers in producing materials that support this audience. The day will be a mix of mini-presentations to share individual work and guidelines, group discussions on similarities and differences in our work, and practical exercises to improve sample web pages and other written materials. For more information on the background of this project, please see http://www.designtoread.com Your position paper will include: Your past work and interest in the topic Current motivation for attending Critical issues in designing to read Issues to avoid Your guidelines Suggested references Timelines: Position Paper Due: May 4, 2009 Notice for Acceptance: May 18, 2009 Please send the position paper to the following email addresses: Whitney Quesenbery: whitneyq at wqusability.com Caroline Jarrett: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Kathryn Summers: kathryn at summersconsulting.net From kschriver at earthlink.net Sat Apr 11 22:20:21 2009 From: kschriver at earthlink.net (Karen Schriver) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:20:21 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: New Award: John R Hayes Excellence in Writing Research In-Reply-To: References: <20090315092751.15002rhdr2tncnsw@webmail.ualberta.ca> <4F51A123-CC3D-4126-9216-E1AC101BCD81@exeter.ac.uk> Message-ID: RESEARCH AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the establishment of the ?John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research.? This award, aimed at recognizing outstanding quantitative or qualitative empirical research in writing, will be awarded annually to an author or authors of an article appearing in the journal Written Communication (see http://wcx.sagepub.com/) . The winner will be selected by a committee appointed by the editor, Christina Haas. Articles will be evaluated for quality of empirical scholarship. We encourage participation of scholars both seasoned and new. Winners will be announced in the journal and recognized at a meeting of writing researchers, for example, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), or the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recipients of the award will receive a custom- designed plaque and a $1000 prize. This year?s inaugural award will go to Anne Haas Dyson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her article, ?Staying in the (curricular) Lines: Practice Constraints and Possibilities in Childhood Writing? (WC 25[1], 119-159). The selection committee for this year?s award included Rich Haswell (chair), Jeanne Fahnestock, Greg Myers, Nancy Penrose, and David Wallace. Anne will be recognized at AERA on April 16th at the Writing and Literacies SIG and will formally receive her award at the international conference, ?Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives? to be held on July 2-3, 2009 at the University of London. We hope you can make it to one of these meetings to congratulate Anne on her excellent work. We encourage you or your students to submit to WC to be part of the eligible pool for next year. 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URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090411/a932746c/attachment-0043.htm From dtp at she-philosopher.com Wed Apr 29 20:58:56 2009 From: dtp at she-philosopher.com (Deborah Taylor-Pearce) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:58:56 -0700 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act In-Reply-To: <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> References: <3CCF736C-7EB8-4622-86FB-D2431F5CCDA3@reading.ac.uk> <4959B87F.2020808@she-philosopher.com> <2285a9d20901151245x55a46482s2258ba13872dc825@mail.gmail.com> <49B06B36.2070806@she-philosopher.com> <29D83812-ACC5-4AF9-B393-1D1EA1F226D0@brianparkinson.co.uk> <49B8165D.4070206@she-philosopher.com> Message-ID: <49F8A370.1050309@she-philosopher.com> Cafe, An interesting story on the very troubling Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: "Publicly funded research for a price" 1st aired on the American Public Media radio program, _Marketplace_, 28 April 2009 http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/28/pm_copyright/ Among other items of note: "Publishers might change their business model by making authors pay to have their own articles published." FWIW, most publishing of scientific and medical research in the 17th and 18th centuries used an "author-pays" business model -- or in the case of the celebrated C18 medical researcher and surgeon, William Cheselden, a "subscription" model. With a few exceptions (some C18 encyclopedias of the arts & sciences), neither one worked all that well. (E.g., Cheselden's magnificent _Osteographia_ was a financial failure, as his bid for subscribers met with little success.) Deborah _____ Deborah Taylor-Pearce dtp at she-philosopher.com P.S. to Conrad & others still interested in discussion of C17 calligraphy and cartographic calligraphy: As always, I'm trying to do too many things at once, hence falling further & further behind in all of it. I did want to let you know, though, that I've found a rare and little-known essay by a C17-C18 English engraver who raised some of the very same issues Conrad did earlier about engraved calligraphy. Writing in 1698, he made much of the differences between the technology of the pen vs. the technology of "the Graving Tool" (also, between "the *Penmans Ink*" vs. the printer's ink), trying to get naive viewers and users of C17 copy-books to understand just how technologically-mediated what we see in a printed writing specimen actually is. I'm going to be posting a digital edn. of his essay ("The Engraver to the Lovers of Writing") to my website's library, along with C17 recipes for both kinds of ink, and lots more, as soon as I can manage it. I will also post examples of "best" and "worst" practices of C17 engraved calligraphy for Conrad and others to explain to those like me who are less discerning (if not exactly "naive" ;-) viewers of such things. So, more from me on this in the near future.... Deborah From val at squishypuppy.com Wed Apr 29 23:37:35 2009 From: val at squishypuppy.com (Valerie Riedel) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding Message-ID: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Hi all, This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that would benefit from info design expertise. Cheers, Valerie Riedel Science Writer Energetics Incorporated --- http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf Purpose Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Eligibility Criteria Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities. Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant breakthroughs in the future of health and health care. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Specific objectives of the program include: broadening the understanding of health in everyday living by creating innovative, unobtrusive ways to capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative ways to interpret them; determining the value of making these observations available to clinical practitioners in ways that are meaningful but not burdensome; expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the sharing of and protection for personal health information generated outside of care settings and its integration into clinical practice; and stimulating industry investment in the technical infrastructure, products and services needed to manage personal health information. Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants. Grantees will work with a target patient population to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration of ODLs into clinical care and self-management processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design, develop, implement and evaluate solutions that: capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population; analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to extract clinically useful information; use this information to provide feedback to individuals so that they can take actions to manage their conditions and improve their health; enable individuals to share this information with their clinical care teams; present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical work flows; and identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated with the overall approach. From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:08:22 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:08:22 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: personal health record funding In-Reply-To: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> References: <48EE12E5-B3C8-45D1-9C74-456670C1E581@squishypuppy.com> Message-ID: Colleagues I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090430/cf50bf4d/attachment-0024.htm From marconi2006 at googlemail.com Thu Apr 30 11:09:56 2009 From: marconi2006 at googlemail.com (Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:56 -0300 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics Message-ID: Colleagues (sorry for sending this twice), I am doing a quick research on how pop up book?s mechanisms can be used to communicate technical matters (car mechanics, health issues, etc.). I am calling this "three dimensional cinematic and interactive graphics". I was wondering if someone would have something to say about it. My focus is on how such mechanisms can influence learning, specially adult (rather than children) students. Any article? Any product or designer that you like? Any thought? Any tip? Any link? Many thanks. -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -- Jos? Marconi Bezerra de Souza Visiting lecturer of Paran? Federal University PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University of Reading (UK) Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details at: http://www.technicalcommunicationuk.com/ Regards, David -- David Farbey MA FISTC MBCS - London UK david at farbey.co.uk Technical Communication and Information Design Consultant Mobile: 07879 005 946 Web site Blog Twitter LinkedIn *********************************************** Treasurer and Past President STC UK Chapter Co-Manager STC Europe SIG *********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.webtic.nl/pipermail/infodesign-cafe/attachments/20090407/d9051d32/attachment-0048.htm From caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk Thu Apr 9 13:27:52 2009 From: caroline.jarrett at effortmark.co.uk (Caroline Jarrett) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:27:52 +0100 Subject: InfoD-Cafe: UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Message-ID: <004101c9b906$38908ef0$a9b1acd0$@jarrett@effortmark.co.uk> Hi all, Several people expressed interest in the previous Design to Read workshop but couldn't make it. Our next workshop is at the UPA conference in Portland, Oregon, Monday June 8th 2009 More details at: www.designtoread.com Full call for participation follows. Best Caroline Jarrett www.formsthatwork.com "Forms that work: Designing web forms for usability" foreword by Steve Krug ----------------------------- UPA 2009 Workshop: Design to Read - call for participation Design to Read: Designing for people who do not read easily UPA 2009 Workshop Workshop Date: 8:30a.m. - 5:30p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009 Location: UPA Conference, Portland, Oregon http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ Many people have reading difficulties, maybe because of an impairment, poor access to literacy or because they are reading in a second language. If you are a researcher, practitioner or advocate then come to share resources and learn about how best to design for people who do not read easily. This workshop is part of a continuing series of interactions with a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, gathering what we know about designing for people who do not read easily. This workshop