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A screenshot of Genomic Valence visualization doesn’t do justice when you can say you’ve actually witnessed the application in action on a huge projector in front of an audience whose is just wow’d out.

Presentation Title
Playing With Data
Speaker(s)
Ben Fry (Ben Fry.com, The MIT Aesthetics and Computation Group, Processing.org)
Did I Stay For The Whole Thing?
Captivated from beginning [...]

Identify your audience and understand the world they live in such that the interface can tie into their tasks
Identify concrete representative tasks that users perform in which the system must accomplish. This will make for a good initial skeleton outline
Conduct research on existing user interfaces and look for ways on how to improve upon them [...]

Java and event handling: How events are passed to user interface components, how to create event handlers, and more
By Todd Sundsted
Summary
Here’s the rundown on event handling as implemented by the abstract windowing toolkit (AWT). This article describes the Event class and explains how the Java run-time system passes events to the components that make up [...]

Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction
by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman
Copyright ©1993, 1994
PDF Version
http://hcibib.org/tcuid/tcuid.pdf
HTML Version
http://hcibib.org/tcuid/
Motive for research
Couldn’t sleep. Wondered around the internet and found myself at U of T’s 20059 / CSC428H1F Human Computer Interaction course webpage. Great links there.

Some links I pulled up to learn more about the topic….
http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=17&thread=4795
http://www.bitchwhocodes.com/archives/2006/04/singleton_vs_st.html
http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=012004

Sorenson Squeeze 4 on2 encoding beats out of the box Flash 8 on2
Presentation Title
The Art of Encoding Video for Flash
Speaker(s)
Derrick Ypenburg (New Toronto Group, Community MX, Focus On Media)
Did I Stay For The Whole Thing?
Definitely.
Reason For Attending
I’ve worked with FLV in the past. I am working on a video side-project. I hope to do more [...]

Mike Downey at FITC 06 Keynote (Photo Credit: DarbyMedia)
Presentation Title
The Adobe Keynote
Speaker(s)
Mike Downey (http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md);
Mike Chambers (http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh)
Sho Kuwamoto (http://kuwamoto.org)
Adobe mobile guy
Did I Stay For The Whole Thing?
Yes.
Reason For Attending
I attended this because I didn’t get a chance to attend the Adobe Q and A earlier in the morning.
Highlights
Watched a video of a bunch of people pop’n [...]

Presentation Title
The Open Source Flash Revolution
Speaker(s)
Aral Balkan (flashant.com, London MMUG)
Did I stay for the whole thing?
Yes.
Reason for Attending
I’ve always found open source development intriguing. I have a tremendous respect for OS (open source) contributors because they don’t code for monetary gain. They code for the passion of it. They also code to evolve the [...]

For the most part, the festival was good. Some of it…well…was simply not for me. I have a lot to say that is positive about the event. I’ll be staggering the review posts (hopefully) on a daily basis because I’d lose an entire day if I posted all my thoughts at once.
The following list are [...]