Friday-Saturday, May 12-13, 2006: BayCHI Event (BayCHI)

Participate in DCamp—attend, present or sponsor! Add yourself to the wiki!

DCamp, an unconference focused on design and user experience, is open to everyone interested in the topics: designers, usability practitioners, developers, marketers, entrepreneurs, and others.

Unlike traditional conferences, there is no program created by conference organizers. What happens at DCamp depends on you. Come share your work and ideas. Tell us about some interesting UX method, explain how design fits into agile development and open source, share your design dilemma, or tell us about your new and interesting design.

The event will be held at the offices of SocialText in downtown Palo Alto, Friday evening, May 12, and all day Saturday, May 13.

In the spirit of BarCamp, DCamp is offered at minimum cost to attendees: free with a small suggested donation of $10.

All are invited to participate. Make a presentation, help organize, or be a sponsor for the event.

DCamp would not be possible without the support of many sponsors. BayCHI is excited to be one of the first sponsors, and we hope to see many BayCHI members there!

Participate in DCamp—attend, present or sponsor! Add yourself to the wiki!

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4/13/2006 10:14 PDT: All this chittah-chattah: I've signed up for this ... I fear it being too technical, too software-focused. I'm signed up to give a loose talk I've given before, The Overlap: Cultures, Disciplines, and Design ...
4/8/2006 01:30 PDT: Scobelizer: I wonder if they'll talk about Microsoft's Expression Interactive Designer (aka Sparkle) there? That's what I always think about when I hear about developers and designers getting together.
4/8/2006 01:20 PDT: Extractable Extra! Extra!: I've been itching to attend an unconference since I heard about the first BarCamp, but they were mostly very heavily coder oriented and I'm a floaty-on-the-surface presentation-layer kind of guy …
4/6/2006 10:07 PDT: Rashmi Sinha's Weblog: I am excited to announce that DCamp the first BarCamp type ad-hoc, unconference focused on design & user experience
4/6/2006 10:06 PDT: Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Socialtext is opening it's doors to host DCamp, the first ad-hoc event focused on design & user experience

Howard Gardner proposed the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in 1983—that humans process information through multiple intelligences rather than through one unitary intelligence. At this point, Gardner delineates eight intelligences:

Currently most user experiences rely heavily on the use of linguistic and logical–mathematical intelligences, perhaps with some use of spatial intelligence thrown in for good measure.

I'd like to discuss how we can increase the impact of the user experience through engaging other intelligences, such as musical intelligence. To do this, I'm bringing along some musical instruments—and if you see this in time, please bring your instruments as well. We can make some music together and use our own experience to discuss how we can increase the impact of the user experience by engaging users’ multiple intelligences (including musical intelligence).