Mapping the User Experience with Chris Cavallucci
In “Mapping the User Experience,” Chris Cavallucci will provide a framework for mapping concepts to create visualizations, spatial representations, or relationships which would otherwise take much effort to describe only in words.
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM (Social time from 6:00-6:30PM)
Location: Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall, Room 211
University of Pennsylvania
3620 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104
Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/yeh4xxd
RSVP: http://phillychi2010-1.eventbrite.com
About the Presentation
Chris will also discuss a variety of map types, including site maps, user flows, brainstorming notes, click paths, and application components. To help demonstrate the value in each type, Chris will walk us through using concept maps to:
- Create meaningful relationships and structure, where we catalog and classify functions, pathways, behaviors, hierarchies and events;
- Gather requirements, plan, and consolidate information for a project
- Discover complex concepts and think visually
Lastly, Chris will demonstrate some different tools and methods he’s used to create and share these maps, as well as his experiences with them.
About Chris Cavallucci
Chris is a User Experience Architect based in the Philadelphia area. His work engages teams across multiple disciplines including engineering, product design, marketing, and business strategy. As a software quality consultant, he has worked on numerous enterprise information systems design and development projects in the financial services, pharmaceutical, RFID/logistics, and technology industries. On a full-time basis, he has worked for several entrepreneurial firms including TMX Interactive, Patron Solutions/Comcast-Spectacor, and Exclaim, a mobile phone media company. Chris helps customers enhance their experience designs and brand relevance.
In addition to holding a Masters of Information Systems degree from Drexel University and an undergraduate degree in Psychobiology from Albright College, he actively participates in PhillyCHI, IxDA, IAI, and ASQ.
About PhillyCHI
PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability, and other related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds monthly meetings and socials to network and discuss current topics in HCI. Learn more at
http://phillychi.acm.org/.
PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability, and other related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds monthly meetings and socials to network and discuss current topics in HCI. Learn more at
http://phillychi.acm.org/.
Questions?
Please contact the PhillyCHI Officers at phillychi@gmail.com.
PhillyCHI Social: Technology & Design-Themed Quizzo
PhillyCHI is pleased to host our second technology and design-themed Quizzo night. Trivia questions will be based on technology, design, architecture, and other related topics. Prizes will be awarded to the first, second, and third place teams. So come socialize with design and user experience professionals, try your hand at trivia, and (hopefully) learn a thing or two, all over tasty food and drinks.
Date: Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM (Game starts at 8PM, so please come early to get a table)
Location: National Mechanics
Address: 22 S. 3rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Website: http://www.nationalmechanics.com/
Map & Directions: http://nationalmechanics.com/philadelphia-hours-directions
Register: To help us plan, please register: http://phillychiquizzo1.eventbrite.com/
What is a “Quizzo”?
Quizzo is a live trivia game, usually hosted at a bar. The game is played with teams of two to eight people. Several rounds of questions are held. Questions are read out loud while each team writes down the answers. The team that answers the most trivia questions correctly wins first place.
About PhillyCHI
PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability, and other related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds monthly meetings and socials to network and discuss current topics in HCI. Learn more at http://phillychi.acm.org.
Questions about this event? Please contact phillychi@gmail.com.
PhillyCHI Fourth Annual Design Slam
Please join us for the Philadelphia region’s fourth annual Design Slam. Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a “made-up” real-world problem. Awards will be given to the victors!
Date: Friday January 22nd, 2010
Time: 6:00pm to 8:30pm (We’ll have our opening announcements starting at 6pm, and the competition will start promptly at 6:30, so please come early)
Location: Messagefirst – 230 N 2nd Street, Suite 2C, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (under the Ben Franklin Bridge)
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/yd3uyld
Parking Info: http://www.philapark.org/parkinglocator/parking_locator.aspx (Moderately priced parking is available in a garage located directly across 2nd Street from Messagefirst)
RSVP at Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/520484784
Space is limited and RSVP is required. Registration will be closed once the event is full. Please register now.
What’s a “design slam”?
During the meeting, participants will be teamed and introduced to a full-fledged hypothetical project, including appropriate client-side deliverables. They’ll then have an opportunity to interview key players on the client’s team. The session will conclude with proposal presentations from each of the groups to the “clients” and the assembled audience.
Then the “clients” team will choose a winner. Members of the winning team will receive a plethora of praise from your peers and an award.
What’s in it for me?
This is a chance for interested IAs, designers, usability practitioners, developers and marketing professionals to get their hands dirty working side by side with colleagues as they tackle tough business problems in a fun and sometimes crazy environment. Knowledge transfer, technique sharing, and a social atmosphere makes this session stand out from the garden-variety “Lecture-and-PowerPoint” presentation.
Please try to arrive on time. We’ll have our opening announcements starting at 6pm, and the client team will introduce the design challenge promptly at 6:30pm.
If you do not want to participate because you won’t be able to get to the meeting on time or a have severe case of social phobia, fear not! We would like to have an audience during this session to play the role of users, and help choose the winning team.
This idea is shamelessly stolen (with permission) from the IA Summit’s IA Slam.
For more information about the IA Slam, please visit: http://www.e-reiss.com/Seminars/IA%20Slam%20mini-site.aspx
