Speaking at UXLx in Lisbon, Portugal from May 24-27th, 2016!

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at UXLx: User Experience Lisbon – 24 to 27 May 2016. I’ll also be doing a half-day workshop on Calm Technology there.

User Experience Lisbon provides 4 days of training and inspiration for user experience professionals.

This will be my first time in Lisbon, Portugal and I’m definitely looking forward to it.

Workshop on Designing Calm Technology

Time: 1/2 day (4 hours) Class size limit: 40 participants

The difference between an annoying technology and one that is helpful is how it engages our attention. Calm Technology is a framework for designing ubiquitous devices that engage our attention in an appropriate manner. The aim of Calm Technology is to provide principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it away.

This workshop will cover how to use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices. We’ll look at notification styles, compressing information into other senses, and designing for the least amount of cognitive overhead.

Structure and activities Students will work in groups to solve a series of design challenges, including designing new products, ‘calming down’ a complex ones, communicating the principles of Calm Technology across an organization and team, and entering a product successfully into the marketplace.

You’ll learn how to:

• Use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices.

• Design appropriate notification systems into both physical and software products

• Communicate the principles of Calm Technology to your across your organization and team

• Use methods of Calm Technology to design technology for generations, not seasons.

• Enter your product successfully into the marketplace.

Who is the workshop for?

This workshop is for anyone that actively builds or makes decisions about technology, especially user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors and developers. Attendees are encouraged to have some background in user experience design and look at http://calmtech.com/ or Designing Calm Technology before the workshop.

Bringing a laptop is not required, as work will be done on paper and in groups.

Want to learn more?

Check out the rest of the conference and the speakers at UXLx!

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Panel on Cyborgs at U of O’s What is Media 2: What is Life?

CONFERENCE-EXPERIENCE-EXHIBITION

University of Oregon in Portland • April 6-8, 2017 • whatis.uoregon.edu

On Saturday, April 8, 2:45-4:00pm I’ll be chairing a session on Cyborgs.

Chair: Amber Case, Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University/Visiting Researcher, MIT Center for Civic Media.

• Caroline Alphin, ASPECT-Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University“Cyborg Neoliberalism: Practicing Neoliberal Subjectivity through the Fitness Tracker”

• Justin Barnard, English, State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia“Ex Humana: How Technology is Changing What it Means to be Human”

• Patrick Dunham, Comparative Literature, University of Oregon“The Eradication of Reality in the Age of the Simulation”

• Lucy Benjamin, Media Studies/Film Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands“Loving Life: Romantic Encounters of the Modern Cyborg”

About The 7th annual What is…conference will take place April 6-8 at the White Stag complex in Portland. The conference engages communication, media, and nature by examining everyday life—our lifestyles and lifeworks—emphasizing the environments we live in. The event emphasizes how communication is instrumental in and for living systems. What is life and how is life mediated? It builds on last year’s conference-experience, What is Media? (2016), expanding a transdisciplinary notion of medium/media with special attention to its material, historical, and ecological ramifications.

The event marks the second collaboration with scholars from the natural sciences (physical and life sciences) and the arts. Panels and roundtables will present a wide range of topics including but not limited to: media literacies, complexity, ethics, ecocriticism, data, food, health, economics, rights/privacy, audiences, platforms and living technologies.

The conference-experience will continue the focus on an integrated view of communication for the 21st century, and plant the seeds for deeper investigations into complexity in systems, environmental and ecological approaches. In acknowledging art/science, technology, and environments/nature, communication is at an emergent crossroads.

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Keynote Speech on Calm Technology at The Next Web Amsterdam!

I look forward to speaking at The Next Web Conference from May 18th & 19th, 2017 in Amsterdam.

What is TNW Conference? TNW Conference is a 2-day technology festival that brings together international technology executives, top-tier investors and promising startups for two days of business, knowledge sharing and the best time you’ve ever had. Over the past 11 editions TNW Conference has grown from a 200-person event to one of the leading technology events, bringing together 15,000 attendees a day and 3,500 companies from all over the world.

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