Conferences & Workshops

Web accessibility workshop in Adelaide
Date: 09/11/2006

Web Accessibility Workshop in Adelaide - 15 December 2006 This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia, is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. The workshop provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. It covers the World Wide Web Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of assessment tools and techniques. Vision Australia is a living partnership between people who are blind, vision impaired or sighted. We are united by our vision that in the future people with blindness or vision impairment in Australia will access and fully participate in every part of life they choose.
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CHISIG event - Using context to deliver useful information to people
Date: 01/09/2006

As Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation, once said, 'Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant'. Andrew Lampert, Research Engineer in the Information Engneering Laboratory at the CSIRO ICT Centre, will be speaking about research that focuses on controlling the flow of information to deliver the right content to the right people at the right time in the right form. He approaches the problem by using knowledge about users and their interaction to tailor the information that is gathered and to present it appropriately.
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CHISIG Christmas in Winter event - "Thank God Usability is Here!"
Date: 27/07/2006

This is a fantastic opportunity to network with design and usability people from academia and industry, plus you can expect lots of laughs!
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Australian Computer Society - Enterprise solution development presentation
Date: 18/05/2006

This presentation will look at software solution development from a usability perspective. James Breeze, PTG Global's General Manager, will explain an approach to design specifications for User Interfaces that are based both on Object-Orientation and on studies in human psychology. The session will focus on delivering usable, high performance interfaces.
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NICTA Software engineering breakfast series
Date: 17/05/2006

This breakfast presentation is run by National ICT Australia and will cover 'Factors for IT project success and failure'. Professor June Verner from the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) program will be featured. This seminar will be especially beneficial to software and IT project managers, as well as those with a stake in successful business systems implementations.
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CeBIT exhibition
Date: 03/04/2006

CeBIT Australia is Australasia's leading Information & Communications Technology (ICT) event for the business marketplace. PTG-Global will be there in association with the NSW Department of State and Regional Development.
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CHISIG Bridging the Gap Between Requirements and Design Presentation
Date: 31/03/2006

Have you ever wondered how to bridge the gap between user requirements and design when creating a user interface? This April, PTG-Global's Managing Director Craig Errey will address this question through looking at our unique user interface design method.
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Web Accessibility Workshops
Date: 31/03/2006

These full day workshops provide a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them.
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Online Banking Review Security Briefing: Combating Cybercrime
Date: 23/03/2006

This conference will look at the development of an industry ulitility to combat cybercrime, phishing and pharming in the financial service sector.
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CHISIG NSW "Audio Nomad: The Art and Science of Location Aware Audio"
Date: 14/01/2006

Dr. Daniel Woo will be giving a talk on the exciting innovative Audio Nomad project developed at the University of New South Wales.
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