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Items of lasting value (proceedings, reports) from past events.

Use this list for historical research and to help you see what each event covered in the past (in case you are thinking about attending in the future).

  
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User Experience 2001-2002 Conference
http://nngroup.com/events/
Last city: Sydney, June, 2002.

Was October 21-24, 2001, Washington; DC, November 4-7, London.

Destination: Nielsen Norman Group (9)
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August 29, 2001

   
 

ASIST 2001 Annual Meeting
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM01/index.html
November 2-8, 2001, Washington, DC.

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August 29, 2001

   
 

CHI 2002
http://www.sigchi.org/chi2002/
April 20-25, Minnesota, USA.

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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May 23, 2001

   
 

Internet World UK
http://www.internetworld.co.uk ... AllConferernces.cfm?streamid=3
June 5-7, 2001, London.

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May 15, 2001

   
 

Extranets 2001
http://www.extranets2001.com/
April 30 - May 2, 2001, California, USA.

Ecommerce usability track.

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February 23, 2001

   
 

Intranets 2001
http://www.intranets2001.com/
April 30 - May 2, 2001, California, USA.

Usability and information architecture tracks.

Topic: Intranet (11)
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February 23, 2001

   
 

CHI 2001
http://www.sigchi.org/chi2001/
March 31 - April 5, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA.

The advance program lists the following sessions of interest:

  • Tutorial: Web Usability: The Big Picture
  • Tutorial: Web Sites that Work: Designing with Your Eyes Open
  • Tutorial: Web Search Engines: Algorithms and User Interfaces
  • Tutorial: Design and Rapid Evaluation of Usable Web Sites
  • Workshop: Sometimes a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  • Workshop: The Elements of Online Trust
  • Demonstrations: Web Usability
  • Panel: Measuring Information Architecture Quality: Prove It (or Not)!
  • Papers: (Trust) Worthy Web Design
  • Papers: Sensable Navigation Search
  • Papers: Information Scent

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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January 10, 2001

   
 

Synonyms and Taxonomies Seminar
http://argus-acia.com/acia_event/seminar_roadshow.html
January 19, New York and February 2, San Francisco.

Topic:  (27)
Destination: ACIA (15)
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January 4, 2001

   
 

WWW 10
http://www10.org/
May 1-5, 2001, Hong Kong.

Tenth Intermational World Wide Web Conference topics include:

  • User interface and interactions
  • Web navigation strategies
  • Hypertext and hypermedia

Topic: WWW conference (4)
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November 1, 2000

   
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Intelligent Interface Design
http://www.weinschenk.com/IID.htm
Last public occurrence: February 6-9, 2001, Wisconsin.

4-day Weinschenk course includes web design.

Web design components:

  • Information architecture for web pages
  • Web page elements
  • Analysis for web pages

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October 10, 2000

   
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User Experience World Tour
http://www.nngroup.com/worldtour/
Nielsen Norman Group toured the world.

East Coast USA and Europe mostly in November/December 2000:

  • New York, New York, November 13-15
  • Chicago, Illinois, November 16-18
  • London, England, November 28-30
  • Munich, Germany, December 3-5
  • Stockholm, Sweden, December 6-8
  • New Jersey, April 12-13, 2001

Western USA, Asia and Australia in 2001:

  • Austin, Texas, January 7-9
  • San Francisco, California, January 17-19
  • Tokyo, Japan, February 18-20
  • Hong Kong, China, February 21-23
  • Singapore, February 25-27
  • Sydney, Australia, February 28 - March 2
  • Seattle, Washington, April 6-8
  • Los Angeles, California, April 9-10

Destination: Nielsen Norman Group (9)
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October 2, 2000

   
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UPA Past Conferences
http://www.upassoc.org/html/past.conference.html

Destination: Usability Professionals' Association (1)
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December 31, 1999

   
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History Keeping in Computer Applications
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/about/events/history-workshop/
December 3 workshop includes web browser history papers.

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November 18, 1999

   
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ASIS 1999 Annual Conference
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM99/
October 31 - November 4, 1999, Washington, DC, USA.

Destination: ASIS (7)
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November 6, 1999

   
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WebTV Meeting Minutes, BayCHI-UE BOF
http://www.baychi.org/bof/usability/19990720/

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July 28, 1999

   
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ASIS 1999 Annual Meeting
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM99/index.html
October 31 - November 4, 1999, Washington, DC.

The American Society for Information Science conference included an information retrieval track with user-oriented sessions:

  • How we search: The web
  • Studying students searching
  • Interaction, navigation and visualization
  • Representing users

Destination: ASIS (7)
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July 23, 1999

   
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InfoVis '99
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/infovis99/index.html
October 24-29 29, 1999, San Francisco, California, USA.

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July 12, 1999

   
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Digital Libraries '99
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/index.htm
August 11-14, 1999, California, USA.

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July 12, 1999

   
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SIGIR '99
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/r ... conferences/sigir99/index.html
August 15-19, 1999, California, USA.

ACM information retrieval conference included some presentations on user interaction (from the preliminary program):

  • Tutorial: User interface design for information retrieval in e-commerce
  • Paper: Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text, 2D, and 3D Interfaces
  • Paper: User revealment - a comparison of initial queries and ensuing question development in online searching and in human reference interaction
  • Poster: Web searching behavior of aerospace engineers
  • Workshop: Evaluation of Web Document Retrieval

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July 5, 1999

   
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Internet Librarian '99
http://www.infotoday.com/il99/il99.htm
November 7-11, 1999, California, USA.

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July 1, 1999

   
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UM 99
http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/index.shtml

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June 20, 1999

   
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Web Interface Design Issues: Usability
http://www.blacksunimages.com/usability/

Author: Summerville, Marion (1)
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March 24, 1999

   
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CHI 99
http://www.sigchi.org/chi99/index.html
May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

ACM/SIGCHI annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. This was the big HCI event of the year. Some of the activities included:

  • Tutorial: User interface design for the web
  • Tutorial: Practical usability methods in web site design
  • Tutorial: Web sites that work
  • Tutorial: Current issues in web design
  • Workshop: Organizing web site information
  • Interview: Web and web design limits to HCI
  • Papers: Foundations for Navigation
  • Papers: Organizing information on the web

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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February 5, 1999

   
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Internet Librarian '98
http://www.infotoday.com/il98/il98.htm

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December 5, 1998

   
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UIST 99
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist99/default.html
November 7-10, 1999, North Carolina, USA.

User Interface Software and Technology is the premier forum for innovations in developing human-computer interfaces.

Papers, TechNotes, Panels, and Demos were sought on a wide range of user interface topics.

Past UISTs have included web interaction techniques.

Destination: ACM (14)
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December 4, 1998

   
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INTERACT '99
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/i99/default.html
August 30 - September 3, 1999, Scotland.

Seventh IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and served as BCS HCI '99.

Took place during the Edinburgh International Festival.

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December 4, 1998

   
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Hypertext '99
http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/proceedings/hypertext/294469/
February 21-25, 1999, Darmstadt, Germany.

The 10th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia included "World Wide Web applications and extensions" as a topic, but just about everything "hypertext" is applicable to the web nowadays.

A few items of interest from the advance program:

  • Abstract Tasks: a Tool for the Inspection of web Sites
  • Reconciling open hypermedia and World Wide Web research
  • Adaptive Hypermedia (panel)
  • Visualizing and Assessing Navigation in Hypertext

Topic: Hypermedia (10)
Destination: ACM (14)
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December 4, 1998

   
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HFWeb 5
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb/index.html
June 3, 1999, Maryland, USA.

5th Human Factors and the Web conference. Purpose was to provide a forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable.

"The Future of Web Applications" was the theme. Submissions were welcomed on:

  • Usability studies of dynamic, customizable web sites
  • Innovative applications, especially for electronic commerce and enterprise-wide operations
  • Case studies of legacy systems re-engineered for the web, database-enabled sites and transaction-based applications
  • Usable design with new Web technologies such as XML and Java
  • Tools for web usability testing and evaluation
  • Accessibility

Topic: HFWeb (1)
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December 4, 1998

   
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WWW8 conference
http://www8.org/index.html
May 11-14, 1999, Toronto, Canada.

The Eighth International World Wide Web Conference brought together leaders from academia, research organizations, government and industry, and offered delegates a chance to gain a global perspective of the issues facing the Web community.

The conference consisted of refereed paper sessions, poster and panel sessions, keynote and invited speakers, a W3C track, an industrial track, tutorials, workshops, an exhibition, and a developers day where the most recent technology developments were discussed.

Specifically of interest:

  • Workshop: Adaptive Systems and User Modeling
  • Developers Day session: Accessibility: Software and Design
  • Poster: Towards a usermetric tool to improve web accessibility
  • Paper session: Multimedia and User Interaction
  • Paper session: Links
  • Panel: Town Meeting - Successful Web Design
  • Paper session: Hypertext and Hypermedia
  • Panel: Agents vs Direct Manipulation -- What's Best to Disentangle the Web?

Topic: WWW conference (4)
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October 4, 1998

   
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The Active Web
http://www.hiraeth.com/conf/ActiveWeb/index.html
20 January, 1999, Stafford, UK.

British HCI Group conference on more interactive web, focused on issues surrounding dynamic interfaces.

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October 4, 1998

   
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OZCHI 98
http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~cisjrw/ozchi98/overview.htm
November 29 - December 4, Australia.

OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Ergonomics Society of Australia.

Tutorials of note:

  • Success e-commerce: Let your web site work for you
  • Web Design for Use: Model-Driven Usage-Centred Design Applied to the Web

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May 29, 1998

   
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CSCW'98
http://www.sigchi.org/cscw98/index.html
November 14-18, 1998, Seattle, USA.

ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Papers of note:

  • Collaborative Customer Services Using Synchronous Web Browser Sharing
  • Talking to Customers on the Web: A Comparison of Three Voice Alternatives
  • Artefact: A Framework for Low-Overhead Web-Based Collaborative Systems
  • Evaluating Emergent Collaboration on the Web

Destination: ACM (14)
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May 29, 1998

   
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Shaping the Future of HTML
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/future/
W3C workshop, May 4-5, San Francisco, CA.

Is HTML 4.0 the last HTML? Does XML mean the end of HTML? Has W3C given up on HTML?

Participants had a chance to discuss their views directly with the designers of HTML. The workshop will help W3C Members and Staff evaluate issues and challenges to be met by future versions of HTML.

Topic: Technology (18)
Destination: World Wide Web Consortium (8)
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April 15, 1998

   
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UIST 98
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist98/default.html
November 1-4, San Francisco, California, USA.

UIST '98 is the premier forum for innovations in developing human-computer interfaces. In the past UIST has covered web user interfaces somewhat.

Destination: ACM (14)
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March 8, 1998

   
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Assets '98
http://www.acm.org/sigcaph/assets/assets98/index.html
April 15-17, California, USA.

Topics included using Web technology to enhance communication for people with disabilities.

Sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped.

Topic: Accessibility (19)
Destination: ACM (14)
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October 1, 1997

   
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CHI 98
http://www.sigchi.org/chi98/index.html
April 18-23, Los Angeles, USA.

The Conference Program shows that there were many great tutorials, some interesting workshops, and many other good sessions about the HCI aspects of the Web.

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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September 13, 1997

   
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HCI International '97
http://gilbreth.ecn.purdue.edu/~salvendy/hci97/
August 24-29, 1997, California, USA.

Had tutorials and paper sessions devoted to Web usability.

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August 28, 1997

   
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AusWeb97
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/index.html
Australia's third WWW conference was July 5-9.

The proceedings list some interesting papers and posters on stale links, courseware, outside-in/inside-out, design for maintenance.

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July 21, 1997

   
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Augmented Conceptual Analysis of the Web
http://www.useit.com/chi97/index.html
Workshop at CHI 97 on trying to think of the Web at a higher level.

Workshop report not ready yet, but the participants tried to create abstract ways to analyze Web phenomenon and "practiced" applying their rules to past and predicted technologies. This all in the hopes of gaining a grasp of this fluid medium.

Destination: useit.com (9)
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May 2, 1997

   
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Usability Testing World Wide Web Sites
http://www.sigchi.org/web/chi97testing/index.html
Workshop at CHI 97 about many aspects of Web usability testing.

Position papers include discussion of: rapid evaluation (Laskowski), large institutional sites (Marchionini), downloading software (Kantner), to name just a few. All are interesting reading.

Topics: CHI (16), User Testing (17)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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May 1, 1997

   
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CHI 97
http://www.sigchi.org/chi97/index.html
Took place March 22-27 in Atlanta.

The proceedings contain many items about the Web and human-computer interaction.

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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April 1, 1997

   
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CHI 96
http://www.sigchi.org/chi96/index.html
Took place April 13-18, 1996, in Vancouver.

The proceedings contain several items about the Web and human-computer interaction.

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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August 1, 1996

   
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The Missing Link Symposium
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/missing-link/ml-report.html
Report on workshop about connecting Web development with existing hypermedia research.

By Simon Buckingham Shum. Contents:

  • The agenda for user-centred Web R & D
  • What do we know about hypermedia usability?
  • How is the Web different from previous hypermedia systems?
  • How to make the biggest user-centred impact on the Web community?
  • Hotlist for future user-centred Web R & D
  • Abstracts for Symposium Position Papers
  • References
  • Web Resources

Topic: Hypermedia (10)
Author: Buckingham Shum, Simon (1)
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July 1, 1996

   
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Hypermedia Research and the World Wide Web Workshop
http://instone.org/hypresweb
Report on a Hypertext '96 workshop (March 1996).

An attempt to bring together hypertext researchers with Web developers so that the Web can leverage what has already been learned about basic navigation and such.

Topic: Hypermedia (10)
Destination: user-experience.org (3)
Author: Instone, Keith (5)
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April 2, 1996

   
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Vannevar Bush Symposium
http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/Bush_Symposium.html

Topic: Hypermedia (10)
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January 1, 1996

   
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CHI '95
http://www.sigchi.org/chi95/index.html
Took place May 7-11, 1995 in Denver.

The proceedings contain several items about the Web and human-computer interaction.

Topic: CHI (16)
Destination: SIGCHI (19)
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August 1, 1995

   
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Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
http://www.jcdl.org/
June 24-28, 2001, Virginia, USA.

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AIGA Santa Fe 1999
http://advance.aiga.org/timeline/santafe.html

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