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IA Summit '02
2002 IA Summit: "REFINING OUR CRAFT"
The 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit Sponsored by ASIS&T
March 15th-17th, 2002
Marriott Baltimore Waterfront
http://www.asist-events.org/IASummit2002/

"REFINING OUR CRAFT" is the third in the ASIS&T-sponsored series of
conferences, the largest dedicated meeting for information
architecture professionals.

This edition balances practical applications and case studies of
information architecture with the big picture thinking of some of the
field's leading figures. This summit is an inclusive event bringing
together people from business and academia with a variety of
perspectives and backgrounds that include information architecture,
human-computer interaction, visual design experience design, and
usability testing. The two-day conference will feature invited talks
by Steve Krug, Founder of Advanced Common Sense, a usability
consultancy, and Peter Morville, President and Founder of Semantic
Studios, a leading information architecture and knowledge management
consulting firm.

This year's summit also adds four exciting pre-conference seminars:

Company And Customer Insight For Information Architects from Adaptive Path
Usability Testing for Information Architects  from Carbon IQ
Controlled vocabularies (1/2 day)  from Semantic Studios
Information Architecture and Organizational Strategy (1/2 day) from
Semantic Studios

Audience participation is built into the meeting.

The early registration deadline is February 22. Discounts
areavailable for students, unemployed and members of related
professional societies (such as ACM). Further details and
registration information can be found at:
http://www.asist-events.org/IASummit2002/

Brief/partial Agenda:
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
* Steve Krug
* Response and Reaction Panel
*Parallel Sessions:
  Metadata and Taxonomies (Warner) & IA for the Enterprise (Merholz
and Rosenfeld)
*Case Studies -
EGreetings: Incorporating User Testing in Site Design and Taxonomy (Farnum)
BCCI: Why Search Isn't Just a Technology Problem (Jones)
Peoplesoft.com -  Development of a New IA, the Backbone of a Massive
Effort to Overhaul a Web Presence (Merholz and Fox)
Audi Razorfish - Relaunch of a Main Brand Portal Site (Kalbach)

* Panel: the Art of Deliverables (Christina Wodtke, Erin Malone, Dan
Brown, Jesse James Garrett, Noel Franus, John Zapolski)

SUNDAY, MARCH 17
* Panel: Business Context of the IA in Content Management Systems
(Warner, Bailey, Bliss, Thornton, Boiko, Chan)
* Parallel Sessions
The IA of Everyday Things (Garrett)
Techniques for Assessing and Improving Information Scent (Withrow)
Facet Analysis (Gruenberg)
*Parallel Sessions:  New Roles in IA (Morville) & Education and IA (Panel)
* Five Minute Madness (Everyone)
* Wrap up (Dillon)


--
Andrew Dillon
Dean and Professor
GSLIS
University of Texas

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