IA Summit 2006: Main Conference Schedule

Saturday March 25			Sunday March 26 Monday March 27
8:00 - 8:30	Registration
8:30 - 10:00	Opening Plenary - Dr. David Weinberger
10:00 - 10:30	Morning Tea
TRACKS	Track 1 Core	Track 2 Core	Track 3 Business & IA
10:30 - 11:15	We Are Not Alone: IA's Role in the Optimal Design Team Jared Spool	Setting the Agenda for IA Research Don Turnbull, Peter Morville, Jamie Bluestein, Keith Instone	IA: Not Just for the Web Anymore Dan Brown, Lou Rosenfeld, James Melzer, James Robertson, Seth Earley
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:15	Taxonomy Testing and Usability Joseph Busch, Ron Daniel, Jr
12:15 - 1:45	Lunch
1:45 - 2:30	Exploring patterns in website content structure Svetlana Symonenko	Building bridges between information behaviour research and information architecture David G. Hendry	Game Changing: How You Can Transform Client Mindsets Through Play Jess McMullin
2:30 - 2:45	Break

2:45 - 3:30	Architecting self-organizing learning communities Faison "Bud" Gibson	Re-invoking Culture and Context in Digital Libraries and Museums Ramesh Srinivasan	Selling IA - Getting Execs to say Yes Samantha Starmer	The International IA Slam - "Workshop with a Winner" Eric L. Reiss, Matthew Fetchko, Chris Chandler, Lynn Boyden
3:30 - 4:00	Afternoon Tea
4:00 - 4:45	"Birds Of a Feather" - "Defining the Damn Thing" (defining IA) David Heller and Richard Dalton	From task to activity: A case study of developing for innovation Nancy Kaplan	A Room of Our Own: Starting IA Locals and Bringing IA to Work Stacy Merrill Surla
4:45 - 5:00	Break
5:00 - 5:45	"Birds Of a Feather" - Tagging Gene Smith and Phillip Jeffery	"Birds Of a Feather" - Research and IA	"Birds of a Feather" - Business & Design Jeff Lash
5:45 - 7:45	Posters & Reception
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Sunday, March 26			Monday March 27 Saturday March 25
	Track 1 Core	Track 2 Core	Track 3 Research
8:30 - 9:15	Wireframes: A comparison of purposes, process, and products Anders Ramsay, Dave Heller, Jeff Lash, Laurie Gray, Todd Warfel	Indexing consistency & its implications for IA Hope Olson, Dieter Wolfram	Ambient Findability Peter Morville
9:15 - 9:30	Break
9:30 - 10:15	Wireframing Challenges in Modern Web Development Nathan Curtis, Bill Scott, Livia Labate, Thomas Vander Wal, Todd Warfel	Metadata games: cutting the metacrap Karen Loasby	Design Patterns in the Real World James Reffell
10:15 - 10:45	Morning Tea
10:45 - 11:30	A Process By Any Other Name... Adam Polansky	Lakoff's 'Women, Fire & Dangerous Things' - What every IA should know Donna Maurer	Emotion, Arousal, Attention and Flow: Chaining Emotional States to Improve Interaction Trevor Van Gorp
11:30 - 11:45	Break
11:45 - 12:30	Communicating Concepts through Comics Kevin Cheng, Jane Jao	New Approaches to Managing Content Dan Brown	Stone Age Information Architecture Alex Wright
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 2:45	Web Applications and Real-World IA: Five Techniques for Making Methodology Deliver Hala Heymassi, Robert Moll, Elyse Sanchez, Charles Field	IA for Efficient Use and Reuse of Information Thomas Vander Wal	Mind-shift: is IA equipped for Web 2.0? Michael Arrington, Dan Brown, Kevin Lynch, Brandon Schauer, Gene Smith
2:45 - 3:00	Break
3:00 - 3:45	In search of common grounds: Introducing Grounded Theory to IA Lada Gorlenko	Object-oriented design Ann Rockley
3:45 - 4:15	Afternoon Tea
4:15 - 5:00	Clues to the Future: What the users of tomorrow are teaching us today Andrew Hinton	Content Analysis: Methods and Mentoring Chiara Fox	What do AJAX, RIAs and Web 2.0 Really Mean for IAs? Dave Heller
5:00 - 5:15	Break
5:15 - 6:00	Bringing More Science to Persona Creation Steve Mulder, Ziv Yaar	Measurement of Semantic Distances: an Introduction to IEML Yves Marleau	The Impact of RIA on Design Processes Matthew Moroz, Jeanine Harriman, Jenica Rangos, Christopher Follett
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Monday March 27			Saturday March 25 Sunday March 26
	Track 1 Core	Track 2 Core	Track 3 Research
8:30 - 9:15	Facets are fundamental: Rethinking information architecture frameworks Abe Crystal	Global Taxonomies meet Interface Design: Challenges and Best Practice James Kalbach	Tagging and Beyond: Personal, Social and Collaborative Information Architecture Gene Smith, Danah Boyd, Scott Golder, Jane Murison, Rashmi Sinha, Mimi Yin
9:15 - 9:30	Break
9:30 - 10:15	The strict faceted classification model: an effective alternative to free-form tagging Travis Wilson	Ich Bin Ein Website! The Impact of Language and Culture on Internationalization and Localization Evan Gerber
10:15 - 10:45	Morning Tea
10:45 - 11:30	Tags and facets, tags and languages: a case study. Peter Van Dijck	Montreal, Paris, Dakar: Conducting an International Intranet Needs Analysis Isabelle Peyrichoux	From pace layering to resilience theory: The complex implications for tagging for IA D. Grant Campbell, Karl V. Fast
11:30 - 11:45	Break
11:45 - 12:30	Exploring the context of user, creator and intermediate tagging Margaret E. Kipp	How can information architecture address challenges to the Web in third world and developing contexts? Jason Hobbs	The life of tags Anthony Charles, Jason Toal
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 2:45	Innovation vs. Best Practice conflict or opportunity? Eric Reiss	Information Architecture for the Spatial Web Matthew Milan, Michael MacLennan	Sorting in an age of tagging: How Information Architects can use sorting to address just about any research question Rashmi Sinha
2:45 - 3:00	Afternoon Tea
3:00 - 4:00	Closing Plenary Peter Merholz
4:00 - 4:45	5 Minute Madness
4:45 - End	Conference close
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