Conference Agenda

ETC2007 kicks off Wednesday, April 25th with the fourth annual HCI Forum: Designing Interaction 2007. The three day event will feature talks by Don Norman, Neal Stephenson, Guy Kawasaki, and Raghu Ramakrishnan. Other events include the grand opening of the Virtual Reality Applications Center's newly upgraded C6 on Thursday and the announcement of unique new initiative during Industry Innovation Day on Friday.

HCI Forum: Designing Interaction 2007
Wednesday, April 25

• • 9:00 to 10:30am – HCI Students present Interactive Technology
  Demonstrations & Poster Presentations
  Location: Howe Hall Atrium & 1620 Howe Hall
• • 10:30 to 11:00am – Taysheng Jeng, PhD: Spaces that Sense, Think, and Respond
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, 1140 Howe Hall
  [Co-sponsored by the ISU Council on International Programs (CIP)]

— Break —

• • 1:00 to 2:30pm – Keynote Speaker: Don Norman
  Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, 1140 Howe Hall
• • 2:30 to 3:00pm – Book signing: Don Norman
  Location: Howe Hall First Floor Foyer
• • 2:30 to 4:00pm – HCI Students present Interactive Technology
  Demonstrations & Poster Presentations
  Location: Howe Hall Atrium & 1620 Howe Hall
• • 4:00 to 5:00pm – HCI Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, 1140 Howe Hall

C6 Grand Opening
Thursday, April 26

• • 9:00 to 4:00pm – VRAC's C6 Public Tours [FULL]
  Location: VRAC, 1620 Howe Hall, ISU
  03.29.2007 – The C6 Tour openings have all been filled. Please check out the other demos, speakers and events taking place during ETC2007 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
• • 9:00 to 4:00pm – HCI Students present Interactive Technology
  Demonstrations & Poster Presentations
  Location:1620 Howe Hall
• • 2:00 to 3:00 pm – Melinda Cerney Knight, Microsoft User Experience
  Researcher for Windows and Windows Live: Engineering the User Experience in Windows Vista
  Location: 1227 Hoover Hall
• • 3:00 to 4:00pm – HCI Graduate Student Usability Relays
  Location: Howe Hall Atrium
• • 4:00 to 5:00pm – A Conversation with Neal Stephenson.
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall, ISU
• • 5:00 to 5:30pm – Book Signing: Neal Stephenson
  Location: Howe Hall First Floor Foyer
• • 7:00pm – IgniteIT
  Location: ISU Research Park Rotunda, 2321 North Loop Drive, Ames, IA
  

Industry Innovation Day
Friday, April 27

• • 9:30am to 11:15am – Keynote Speaker: Guy Kawasaki, Art of the Start
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
• • 11:15 to 11:45am – Book Signing: Guy Kawasaki
  Location: Howe Hall First Floor Foyer

— Break —

• • 1:30 to 2:30pm – Keynote Speaker: Raghu Ramakrishnan, VP and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, Community Systems: The World Online
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
• • 1:30 to 5:00pm – Poster Sessions and & Research Demonstrations
  Location: Howe Hall Atrium & 1620 Howe Hall
  • ° Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery (CCILD)
  • ° Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory (CoSMIC)
  • ° Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program (HCI)
  • ° Information Assurance Center (IAC)
  • ° Information Infrastructure Institute (iCUBED)
  • ° Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)

• • 3:00 to 5:00pm – Afternoon Session: Industry Leaders
  Location: Alliant Energy – Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall