World IA Day Miami
Event Information
Description
What is World IA Day?
World IA Day is a one-day, annual celebration focused on the practice and education of Information Architecture.
Our celebration brings together a diverse community including information architects, user experience designers, content strategists, product managers, developers, scholars, and students. We come together to talk about and shape the future of Information Architecture. Because of the ubiquitous nature of information, we hear stories of information architecture not just practiced by specialists, but by people holding all sorts of titles, coming from all walks of life. We celebrate these stories. Our theme is "Information Everywhere, Architects Everywhere".
Join us for Networking, Speakers + Education!
Our full day event will celebrate WIAD along with 69 other locations across the globe. We will be featuring Richard Saul Wurman as Keynote and have an great line up of speakers from University of Miami, Rokk3r Labs, Keylime Interactive, FIU, SapientNitro and the Knight chair of Innovation at FIU Online
Is registration to this event required? Registration to the event is requested as it will help us to make sure we have enough space for everyone.
DATE/TIME
Saturday February 20th, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
VENUE
School of Communication of the University of Miami
Shoma Hall, School of Communication
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
FREE PARKING AVAILABLE
SCHEDULE
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
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9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Keynote by Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman is coinfounder of the TED, TEDMED, eg & WWW Conferences, he has been fueled by his passion for understanding the unknown and has authored 83 books that span a wide array of topics from medicine to informational architecture. He graduated from the UPenn with B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees and has worked in various fields upon graduation including teaching, architecture and design as well as coining the phrase "information architect" which refers to the practice of dispersing information in an easily understandable manner.
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10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. A Taxonomy of Text Visualization
by Lynn Cherny
Text and data visualization share a long entwined history. They can be understood to play supportive and complementary roles in art, literature, scientific discourse, journalism, and interface design. Most data visualizations of text end up as word clouds, but we can think much more broadly about the palette of options. I'll go through a taxonomy of permutations of text appearing in data visualization and visualization appearing in texts, ending on text as object of visualization: the outputs of natural language processing analysis.
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11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. LIVE VIDEO FEED from our sister city Tampa
The Maps We Live In
by Andrew Hinton, Information Architect & User-Experience Strategy Consultant
Like fish who take water for granted, people often overlook how language is a critical part of their infrastructure. We use language to help us make sense of our towns and cities — but it can surprise us just how much the places we live are made of language itself.
Understanding how language is infrastructure is even more important now, with the explosion of mobile, cross-channel, and blended environments, across entire service experiences and touch points. The language we use as infrastructure is the information we use for architecture.
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12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
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1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Relevance is in the Eye of the Beholder: Uncovering Context-Aware Information from Data
by Arturo Castellanos, PhD Candidate | Information Systems
In the course of normal business, organizations generate electronic documentation describing daily operations and transactions. The purpose of this documentation is generally tactical and follows a pre-defined structure guided by the organizational objectives. Data is often stored and organized at the point of capture, and reflects the daily transactions of the organization’s business activities. The biggest challenge is not to collect and store more information, but to utilize it better.
Beyond the tactical purposes it was originally intended for, it may be difficult to adapt these data for decision-making in different contexts. For instance, in healthcare, data may serve multiple purposes and the information needs’ may be very different for each of the stakeholders pulling data from the electronic health record (EHR). For example, an ER physician may require completely different information compared to a cardiologist. In other words, “relevant” is dependent on the persona looking at the information.
Information systems are representations of the world and enable its users to act upon the world. Effective use is objective and focuses on the reward that stem from how the system is used (e.g., effort needed and goal attainment). Tasks performed by individuals are goal-oriented so the question remains, how can we abstract contextual information from both structured and unstructured data? What are the design principles we need to consider in order to achieve this?
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2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Human-Machine-Collaboration
by Juhong Park, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture at University of Miami Coordinator
Information is changing the way people and machines work. Artificial intelligence is substituting human intelligence and robots are replacing human workers. Instead of settling for this competitive relationship between humans and machines, Dr. Park presents a novel framework in which humans and machines work together to solve the complex problems of design and education, problems that humans or machines alone cannot easily solve. He illustrates how humans and machines improve their learning and as results, increase mutual capabilities.
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3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Information Architecture and Lean UX in Company Building
by Joel Mena, Sr Product Architect at Rokk3r Labs
Learn how to leverage information architecture to increase clarity and collaboration in cross-functional teams. In this presentation we’ll also cover some of the best practices used to help startups add value by fostering a culture experimentation and get out of the deliverables phase.
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3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. WORKSHOP: What does it mean to be an Information Architect? Working together to define our field
by Andrew Schall, Principal Researcher & Sr. Director at Key Lime Interactive
The industry that Information Architects work in is constantly evolving including job titles, goals, methods, tools, roles, and responsibilities. Those within the field (e.g. researchers, content strategists, interaction designers, etc.) as well as those we work with (e.g. product managers, developers, visual designers, etc.) often struggle to understand and define what we do as a field. Card sorting is a common method to understand how to organize information and is used by many UX researchers. By using a card sorting method we will attempt to identify and categorize all of the various unique and interdependent characteristics of what it means to be an "Information Architect". Please join us for a highly interactive and unique opportunity to work with your peers to help define our field.
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4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Information, Engagement and Interaction
by Mariana Santos, Fusion Director of interactive and animation & Knight chair of Innovation at FIU Online
With new patterns in digital consumption, the way news are presented are forced to be reinvented and interactive forms of storytelling are experimented with the aim to serve information as users want to consume them. it is a trial and error process, a moment of incredible creative freedom where media meets design and technology to create engaging and shareable narratives that resonates with the target audience that comes across our narratives, inviting them to be part of the story, offering a new world of exploration, and inclusiveness. This is Fusion, exploring digital original storytelling.
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5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks and giveaways from Tesla Amazing and O'Reilly!
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REGISTRATION
Event is FREE. Please RSVP
