InfoD: Vision Plus 5 abstracts online now

[Gerhard Schwaerzler]

   * Vision Plus 5 abstracts online *   (conference announcement)

     message by:  Gerhard Schwaerzler


The abstracts of all VP5 presentations are now available online:
http://www.fh-vorarlberg.ac.at/visionplus5/2.html

VISION PLUS 5
Learning Meets Information Design, Information Design Meets Learning
Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg, Austria
2 - 4 July 1998


THURSDAY, JULY 2
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8.30 - ... Registration

9.30 - 10.30 Welcome and Opening Statements

Gerhard Schwaerzler, InterMedia,
   Fachhochschul.Studiengaenge.Vorarlberg, Inc. (Chair)

EVA-MARIA WAIBEL, "Landesraetin," State of Vorarlberg
JAKOB FRANZ GREBER, Mayor of Schwarzenberg
WOLFGANG KREMSER, Director Fachhochschul.Studiengaenge.Vorarlberg,
   Inc.
ERIK SPIEKERMANN, President IIID
GEORG BECKER, Austrian Ministry of Science and Transportation
CARLOS A. ARNALDO, Director Division of Free Flow of Information and
   Communication Research, UNESCO
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10.30 - 12.00 Opening Keynote Address

Manfred Tscheligi, Center for Usability Research and Engineering,
   Austria (Chair)

JOHN THACKARA, Netherlands Design Institute, Netherlands:
Knowledge Management and Knowledge Maps
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14.00 - 16.00 Cognitive Issues in Design for Learning

Yuri Engelhardt, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Chair)

TOM HEWETT, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA:
Information, Representation, and Intelligence - Using Psychological
   Knowledge to Improve Interaction

GISELHER GUTTMAN, University of Vienna, Austria:
Learning under Self-Control - Optimizing Receptivity, Learning, and
   Retaining

LEIF ALLMENDINGER, Northern Illinois University, USA:
Diagrammatic Literacy
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16.30 - 17.45 Using Visual Elements for Learning

Gerhard Schwaerzler, Fachhochschul.Studiengaenge.Vorarlberg, Inc.,
   Austria (Chair)

ROBERT O. SWINEHEART, Carnegie Mellon University, USA:
When Design IS Learning

RIC LOWE, Curtin University, Australia:
Designing for Learning - Transforming Specialist Pictorial
   Information into Effective Instructional Illustrations
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18.30 JOSEPH BINDER AWARDS 1998, Cocktail reception



FRIDAY, JULY 3
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9.00 - 11.00 Foundations for Learning Design

David Sless, Communication Research Institute of Australia (Chair)

KRZSYZTOF LENK, Rhode Island School of Design, and Dynamic Diagrams,
   Inc., Providence, USA:
Learning and Understanding - The Historic Origins of Information
   Design

RUNE PETTERSSON, Maelardalen University, Sweden:
Information Design and Learning

HAROLD HAMBROSE, Electronic Ink, Philadelphia, USA:
Software - Information Design Takes a Step Back
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11.45 - 13.00 Practice of Design for Learning

Erik Spiekermann, MetaDesign, Germany (Chair)

JUDITH MOLDENHAUER, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA:
Storytelling and the Personalization of Information

TIM BROWN and COLIN BURNS, IDEO Product Development, UK:
Connected Media Appliances: Delivering Knowledge and Learning
   through a New Generation of Digital Devices and Services
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15.00 - 16.15 Implications for Learning Design

Robert O. Swineheart, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Chair)

SUGURU ISHIZAKI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA:
Benefits of Teaching Programming and Computing for Information
   Designers

PAUL MIJKSENAAR, Bureau Mijksenaar, Amsterdam, and Delft University
   of Technology, Netherlands:
Visual Variables as Starting Points in Information Design
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17.00 Social Event



SATURDAY, JULY 4
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9.00 - 11.00 Learning Environments

Tom Hewett, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (Chair)

ELIZABETH PASTOR, Donovan and Green, New York, USA:
Understanding in the Learning Process

NOBUYUKI UEDA, Konan Women's University, Japan:
Pedagogy of Place - Workshops on Learning Design and the Yoshino
   neoMuseum

ANNI KOUBEK, Joanneum Research Center, Graz, Austria:
Learning and Design - Issues and Experiences
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11.45 - 13.00 Kids and Toys

Manfred Tscheligi, Center for Usability Research and Engineering,
   Austria (Chair)

MICHAEL TAUBER, University of Paderborn, Germany:
Children without Hope?  Learning Design for and with "Cognitively
   Impaired" Children
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15.00 - 16.00 Closing Keynote Address

Erik Spiekermann, MetaDesign, Germany (Chair)

DAVID SLESS, Communication Research Institute of Australia:
Between Text and Illustration
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16.30 - 17.00 Conference Reflections

ERIK SPIEKERMANN, MetaDesign, Germany:
Open Issues in Information Design for Learning
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17.00 - 17.30 Conference Closing

17.30 Farewell


FURTHER INFORMATION:
Fachhochschul.Studiengaenge.Vorarlberg GmbH
Achstrasse 1   6850 Dornbirn   Austria
Telephone: ++43 (0) 5572 20336   Fax: ++43 (0) 5572 26507
Email: visionplus@fh-vorarlberg.ac.at


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