IA Summit 2005—About the Summit

This Year's Summit

Information Architecture (IA) is quickly becoming recognized as a key player in web, multimedia, software, and product design. The ASIS&T IA Summit is the only conference dedicated to information architecture in all of its forms, from strengthening the foundations of the field and widening the scope of IA practice to promoting networking, discussion, and thought for practitioners, students, and academics.

The theme of this sixth annual IA Summit is "Crossing Boundaries". Presentations, panels, workshops, and posters will not only address core IA principles but will also offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on information architecture. Library science, content management, interaction design, and user-centered design are just some of the many fields that continue to inform and enhance IA principles and practices. This year's IA Summit will

• Reach practicing Information Architects
• Motivate those interested in learning more about Information Architecture
• Be an inspiring venue for discussion, networking, community-building, presentation, and learning
• Take the IA Summit tradition into new areas

As always, the IA Summit will focus on connecting with peers. If you are new to IA, the Summit is the best way to begin your involvement in the continually evolving discipline of Information Architecture.

Keynote Speakers

BJ Fogg

Talk: It's inevitable: The computing products we design will shape what people think and do. Whether we like it or not, we are all in the business of influencing people's thoughts and behaviors; we are agents of change. As we create experiences for the Internet and mobile platforms, we should understand our role in changing the cultural landscape. The stakes are higher now than ever before. How can one design for impact with awareness, efficiency, and responsibility? Because who you are gets expressed in the products you create, designing for impact extends beyond the workplace into everyday life.

(BJ's note: In this keynote, I will take some risks and reveal insights into captology I've never shared before.)

Bio: Trained as an experimental psychologist, Dr. B.J. Fogg directs research and design at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab. The lab's mission is to create insight into how computing products--from websites to mobile phone software--can be designed to change people beliefs and behaviors. BJ is the author of "Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do." Outside the university BJ runs a startup company that creates compelling user experiences for everyday people. He holds seven patents for his innovations in user interface design. (His Website)

Andrew Dillon

Talk: Andrew, drawing on his vast experience in crossing boundaries, will give an eclectic overview of the forces shaping IA and the direction the field is headed. He will also review new ideas developed at Crossing Boundaries. This will be an especially exciting event bringing IA Summit 2005 to a close.

Bio: Andrew has been an active researcher of the human response to information technology for the last 15 years, graduating from University College Cork and Loughborough University of Technology before being appointed Research Fellow at the Human Sciences and Advanced Technology Research Institute in the UK.

He moved to Indiana University in 1994 where, amongst other duties, he developed and served as Director of the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Informatics. He joined the University of Texas at Austin in January 2002 as Dean and Professor of the School of Information.

Defying professional categorization, he has held appointments in departments or schools of cognitive science, computer science, instructional systems technology, psychology, management information system, curriculum and instruction, library and information science, and informatics.

Having published more than 80 articles and books on various aspects of human information behavior, Andrew serves or has served on the editorial boards of many leading journals such as the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Interacting with Computers, the Journal of Digital Information, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

He has contributed invited entries for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics & Human Factors and the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.

He strongly advocates designing information resources and systems that work for people to augment and enhance their lives. (His Website)

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updated: 02/11/05