Schedule of Events Information Architecture "Making Connections" March 21-23 Portland, OR Hilton Portland   Friday March 21 Preconference Events 9:00 - 12:30 Pre-Conference Participants   Basic Meta Data and Taxonomy Design  Latest Research in Web Site Usability  Information Architecture Leadership Seminar 12:00 - 1:30     lunch 1:00 - 5:00      Intermediate/Advanced Taxonomy and Metadata Design  Latest Research in Web Site Usability (cont.)  Information Architecture Leadership Seminar (cont.) 6:00 - 7:30 All Conference Participants   Welcome reception and networking Saturday March 22 8:30-10:00 All Conference Participants   Stewart Brand 10:30-12:00 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   WE ARE ALL CONNECTED - Architecture, Site Planning, Information Architecture, and People Research Panel: Navigation and wayfinding in digital spaces- Does an underlying spatial metaphor make it easier for users to find information they are looking for? The Sociobiology of Information Architecture - What do protozoa, birds and chimpanzees have to do with information architecture? More than you might think. Model of Attraction -- providing a central framework to think about information   The Psychology of Information Architecture - Research from cognitive psychology informs the design of organization, labeling, and navigation systems by revealing the strengths and limitations of human information processing and storage/retrieval. 12:00 - 1:30     Lunch 1:30 - 3:00 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   Designing a Usable Intranet for Wachovia Bank - Challenge: create a single intranet with a consistent user experience for two large, merging banking companies with numerous, disparate legacy intranet sites. Using Personas and Scenarios to Guide the Ford.com Site Redesign - demonstrates how three well-defined shopping personas and scenarios were used to guide the second site redesign for Ford.com Content Analysis and Modeling for BCCi - the content modeling of the English Regions' "Where I Live" sites that provide information to regional audiences. Wachovia.com Redesign Project - outlines the successes and failures of a 9 month project to create a new Wachovia.com. Ontology Development and Relationship Modeling for Enterprises and Enterprise Websites Content Modeling and Analysis for EastEnders -- the extensive bottom-up content modeling and analysis for a wesite of the populare TV show 3:30 - 4:45 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   Guidelines & Standards for Taxonomies & Other IA Controlled Vocabularies Scent of a Web Page - the latest research in how designers control whether users find their content or not. Tools for IA - The panel focuses on the technology you ought to be aware of to do IA. 5:00 - 6:00 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   The Accidental Thesaurus: Enhancing Search Precision through Manual-Selected "Best Bets" Levels of order in a chaotic world: Using Verity's Intelligent Classifier to create a corporate taxonomy for an intranet search engine. Tax Services’ Public Website in the Netherlands Designing a Search Interface Representing Many Voices: Challenges in Government Site Design 6:45 - 8:00 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   POSTER Information Overload: A Love Story Sunday, March 23 8:30 - 9:30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   Knowledge Compass: opening windows, punching holes in stovepipes, forming communities, connecting people to people. Kids in the Mi(d)st - the process of building a design team that includes people whose ages range from 9 to 55. Persuasion Architecture – Waiting For Your Cat to Bark 9:30 - 10:30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   Cross-Cultural Information Architecture: Lessons from Japan Panel: Making Connections with Techies - five IA's and one IA-friendly programmer share their , tips and tricks for making connections with technical types to build sites. Employees’ Experience Levels and the Relation to Usability in a Web-based Information System Impact of behavioral-based user research on site design 11:00 - 12:30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   Teaching Information Architecture Selling the deliverable Hypertext Gardens, Architecture, and IA IA as conversation: It's not just what you say but how you say it “A Spirit of Simplicity”: What Information Architects Can Learn from the Arts and Crafts Movement 12:30-1:30     Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3   User Experience and IA Metadata Harvesting Information Architecture versus Visual Design: The Movie or When Worlds Collide: Collaborative friction between information Architecture and Visual Design 2:30 - 3:30 All Conference Participants   Five Minute Madness 3:30 - 4:30 All Conference Participants wrap up Conference Chair

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