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Interaction’09 | South America

The first annual conference on interaction design – Interaction’09 | South America will take place in São Paulo, on 14-15 August 2009.

The deadline for submitting papers is 30 May 2009.

More information on the Interaction’09 | South America website.

Subindo a Ladeira no Espaço Telezoom

Nesta sexta-feira, dia 27 de março, eu e uns amigos nos apresentaremos no Espaço Telezoom. Durante a apresentação, o conjunto Subindo a Ladeira tocará músicas de Joaquim Antônio Callado, Jacob do Bandolim, Pixinguinha, K-Ximbinho, Altamiro Carrilho, Jonas, Luiz Americano e outras feras do Choro.

O Espaço Telezoom fica na Rua Dias Ferreira 78/301, no Leblon (Rio de Janeiro). Reservas pelo tel 3435-1617 ou 3435-1588. Entrada a R$ 20,00, sujeita a lotação (60 lugares).

Mais informações sobre a apresentação no site do Espaço Telezoom.

Twitter, commented by Evan Williams

An interesting talk at TED, from Evan Williams, one of the minds responsible for Blogger and Twitter.

The talk is about Twitter – how it started, how it evolved, how people created new ways for using it. To me the most interesting part of this talk is exactly when EV talks about how people are making part of the creative process, in a way he and his team couldn’t anticipate. Twitter is a fine example of how a product can really evolve when it’s totally opened for development, not only by making an API available to other developers, but by paying attention on how people use the product. Learn from the real user experience, the one that is built in “real world”, by regular people on daily basis.

Twitter is a huge success, like Blogger before it. Congratulations EV, and keep making incredible things for us! :-)

3º EBAI – call for papers

O site do 3º EBAI – Encontro Brasileiro de Arquitetura de Informação já está no ar, e a chamada de trabalhos aberta. Participe!

Parabéns pela iniciativa, mais uma vez, Carol e Guilhermo!
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The call for papers for the 3rd Brazilian Information Architecture Congress just started. Submit your paper!

Congratulations once again, Carol and Guilhermo!

New article on Ambient Intelligence

I just published here an article I wrote last year, and that will also be published as a chapter of a CD-Rom/book, organized by the graduate programs of PUC-Rio, Anhembi-Morumbi and UNESP-Bauru. The CD-Rom/book will be published by Rosari.

The article is a new version of a presentation I’ve made last year at 2nd. EBAI (Encontro Brasileiro de Arquitetura de Informação). It’s about ambient intelligence, and it’s implications to interaction design.

Take a look: Implicações da inteligência ambiental para o design de interação.

Feira Moderna: redesign 2009

After 2 years, it was about time to redesign this website. It took me a long time to face this task, but I finally managed to make it. It wasn’t easy, thought. If it wasn’t enough work to design all the pages, when you finally leave Photoshop and get your hands dirty with HTML, CSS and PHP is that you realize how many details you have to take care.

At least this time I could use almost everything I have done in PHP for the previous version – and I even have improved some stuff too! ;-)

Anyway, after a week of hard work, we’re up and running. Although I have tested things here for some time, it’s possible that many bugs have passed unnoticed. To tell the truth, I still have to remake the CSS version for printing. But as long as you don’t want to print any page, I guess you will find everything in it’s place. :-)

If you see something wrong, or if you just want to say what you think about the new version (like it? hate it?), please, use the ‘comments’ and drop me a line! :-)

UPDATE: now with a clean CSS for printing, as I have done previously!

2009

This post is just to reassure (even to myself) that I’m alive. With much to do on my thesis, I have no time to write here, even when I have things I would like to share with my few readers.

Thanks for passing by, and have a nice 2009! :-)