Jamin Hegeman

Tag: design conference

  • CHI Is Not a Design Conference

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    Call for papers for CHI2008 went out recently, and this sparked some chatter on the IxDA list. The following is a response to the organizing committee having two conference chairs from Microsoft, and CHI’s perception as an academic conference. Jonathan Arnowitz Today 9:28amHI Will, Your first two points are a bit contradictory: Microsoft is not…

  • Emergence Theme Is Service Design 2.0

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    We decided to build off the momentum from last year’s Emergence conference and tackle service design again. But “again” is really the wrong way to put it, because that’s not how we’re thinking about it. The theme is Exploring the Boundaries of Service Design, and it will take place September 7–9. Our goal is to…

  • Emergence Team 2007

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    For my assistanceship this semester, I have been placed on the Emergence team. What is Emergence? It’s a student-run conference put on by the CMU School of Design. Last September was the first one, and it was quite a success. My specific responsibility is the website. Though I am also the team lead. I am…

  • What Design Conference to Attend?

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    Each year the School of Design gives us some money to attend a conference of our choice. Unless I missed something, we were never provided with a list of conferences thought to be worthwhile, which I believe would be helpful since many of us come from different fields and are not familiar with design conferences.…