Seminar: Standards and quality enablers for high-tech business; 4:00pm, Tuesday 20th October 2015

The NSAI; Ireland's national resource for International Standards, standards processes, Quality and the ISO.
Kieran Cox, Education & Promotion officer with the National Standards Authority of Ireland will present on the NSAI's role in standards management, high-tech product standards and process standards including the ISO 26000 Guidance on social responsibility and ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems.

When: 4:00pm, Tuesday 20th October 2015
Where: Lecture Theatre MH201, UCD Blackrock; UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
Guest Speaker: Kieran Cox, NSAI Education and Promotion Officer
Contact Name: Allen Higgins

All Welcome

Enter NSAI into the UCD Library OneSearch box to bring you to the i2i system. i2i provides catalogue access for UCD Connect accounts. Members of UCD will be able to search for and access standards publications from the ISO, EN and IS (e.g. http://eu.i2.saiglobal.com/management).

PPIG 2014

PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRAMMING INTEREST GROUP
PPIG 2014 Conference, Brighton, UK: 25-27 June 2014

Second Call for Papers

Submission Deadline 25th March 2014

We invite papers concerned with the psychological aspects of software development. PPIG entertains a broad spectrum of research approaches, from theoretical perspectives drawing on psychological theory to empirical perspectives grounded in real-world experience, and is equally concerned with all aspects of programming and software engineering, from the design of programming languages to communication issues in software teams, and from computing education to high-performance professional practice.

Full details, see www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/bend/ppig2014/

Stallman at TCD 1st of November

Richard Stallman will be speaking in TCD again this year on the 1st of November: https://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/news/2013/10/rms-the-second-coming-of-st-ignucius/
(via Mark)

Digital Storytelling: Skills Workshops for Video Production

Two Skills Workshops for Video Production covering basic points leading to introductory level knowledge.
These workshops consist of two practitioner led 2hr sessions in video skills and digital storytelling.

Dates: Afternoon Sessions 3pm-5pm: Tuesday 29/10 and Tuesday 5/11
Location: Lecture Theatre 1, Blackrock.

REGISTER HERE (http://goo.gl/VSTolu) PLACES ARE LIMITED

A Google maps reference with room location and suggested parking zones.
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zI3tiisSQK_k.kqOUvhH4ARXE

And a link to UCD's official Blackrock map
http://www.ucd.ie/maps/Blackrock_Campus_Map_2011.pdf

Context:

To engage in the contemporary digital social networked environment organisations have adapted to new modes of communicating and engaging with clients, partners and markets. Training, explaining, persuading, and just communicating through video offers the potential for more direct and personal impressions of engagement with others. Video blogging has become a mainstream genre for communicating and engaging; the arena of organisational leadership has shifted to presentation and presentations are repurposed as videos. 

Agenda

First session - preparing to film, and filming;

• preparation & visual approach - e.g. shot list.
• employing slideware (Powerpoint or Keynote) to mock/prototype/storyboard the project
• how to shoot - i.e. basic guidelines for framing, camera movement, lighting etc.
• how to get good audio
• scripting and recording a voice-over

Between sessions – homework
shoot footage between classes, to be reviewed at the beginning of the second class.

Second sessions - using your footage - editing;

• review of footage shot by students
• overview of different editing options (mac, pc, iPad etc)
• basic principles of editing
• pacing and rhythm
• use of soundtrack
• uploading options - YouTube, Vimeo

References

Exercise: a 30 second video

Seminar: Process innovation and technology cost reduction

An overview of Accenture’s approach to helping organisations to reduce the cost of technology and using technology to drive business performance.

Event details
When: Oct 17, 2013 
from: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Lecture Theatre 1, Blackrock
Contact Name: Allen Higgins
Contact Phone 7164775

Guest speaker, Derek Lande from Accenture, will present on how Accenture helps organisations to reduce costs which is a key priority for all businesses in the recovering economy.  The seminar will discuss how organisations can use different cost levers to drive efficiencies in Technology spending ranging from tactical actions to significant organisational change.  The seminar will also discuss how technology can support cost reduction activities throughout the business as well as the sensitive implications including impacts on staffing levels, morale and talent development.

All Welcome

A Google maps reference with room location and suggested parking zones.
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zI3tiisSQK_k.kqOUvhH4ARXE

And a link to UCD's official Blackrock map
http://www.ucd.ie/maps/Blackrock_Campus_Map_2011.pdf

Seminar: Smarter Planet and Cities

Smarter Planet and Cities with mobile, social, cloud and analytics technology.

Event details
When: Oct 10, 2013 
from: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Where: C201, Blackrock
Contact Name: Allen Higgins
Contact Phone 7164775

You are invited to a talk by Cenk Kuzucu from IBM, presenting on Smarter Analytics and Smarter Planet & Cities (smarter vehicles, energy). Tech trends enabling these visions involve all major facets of technology: mobile, social, cloud and analytics.

Cenk Kuzucu is a Management Consultant in Strategy&Change practice. He joined IBM Business Consulting Services in 2004 after obtaining a M.Sc. degree in Electronic Commerce from Dublin City University. He has worked with different clients from several industries in the areas of business process re-engineering, performance improvement, business strategy and ebusiness systems implementations. Cenk has worked as a functional lead for several business process innovation and Enterprise Application Implementation projects. Cenk's primary interests are eBusiness Strategy and Business Dynamics. Since joining IBM, he has worked on a range of projects in the Telecommunications, Financial Services,Travel & Transportation, Distribution, Healthcare and Government sectors.

Cenk has been involved in researching and developing solutions for rich real-time multi-channel/band messaging within current telecommunications infrastructures. He is an alumni of DCU and past participant in IBM's ExtremeBlue competition (2003). ExtremeBlue is competitive (paid) internship programme where multidisciplinary teams comprised of both IT and business students/graduates work on challenges defined by IBM. ExtremeBlue teams from across the globe then compete internally for recognition and prizes by contrasting project and business outcomes.

Garrath Patterson will also be on hand to present on project management in client-facing consulting engagements and bids. Garrath has managed technical projects for clients in the airline, retail and telecommunications sectors as well as in the public sector. In addition to managing projects he has also worked in Quality Assurance roles on systems projects over 13 years in the IT consulting industry and has worked on all phases of the systems life cycle, in particular, UI design and usability and web interface usability.

All Welcome

A Google maps reference with room location and suggested parking zones.
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zI3tiisSQK_k.kqOUvhH4ARXE

And a link to UCD's official Blackrock map
http://www.ucd.ie/maps/Blackrock_Campus_Map_2011.pdf

References:
C-Level Studies > http://www-935.ibm.com/services/c-suite/
Analytics Related Studies > http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/thoughtleadership/bao.html
Big Data > http://www.ibm.com/big-data/us/en/?lnk=fkt-bgda-usen
Smarter Serious Games > http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/gaming/ 

SILS Seminar: "Is Information Still Relevant?"

'tis it a case of too much information...

You are invited to a talk by Dr Lai Ma entitled, "Is Information Still Relevant?" based on a conference presentation delivered previously in Copenhagen, August 2013.

When Oct 10, 2013 
from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Where SILS Room 107, Belfield
Contact Name: Lai Ma

The term information in information science does not share the characteristics of those of a nomenclature: it does not bear a generally accepted definition and it does not serve as the bases and assumptions for research studies. As the data deluge has arrived, is the concept of information still relevant for information science? Three conceptual constructs are examined for exploring how information may be a useful concept in information science discourse: information as data, information as processed data, and information as justifiable claims. Information is relevant if it is understood as justifiable claims that shape and are shaped by the standards, rules, and best practices of data preservation, data curation, and other activities in the flood of data.

SILS is UCD's School of Information and Library Studies (link)

A Technology Vision for 2013

Thursday 3rd October, 2013. From 18:00 - 19:00. In lecture theatre C201, Blackrock.

Hilary O’Meara, Head of Technology, Accenture Ireland, will speak to the new digital mind-set needed to become savvy to the current convergence of IT and the business...
A video of the seminar is available at http://youtu.be/YCNZvoVE2NU

Your invitation to the guest lecture.

Hilary O’Meara:

Loreto College
University College Dublin: BSc Computer Science (1993)
Accenture (Anderson): 1993 - Current
Test, development, lead, manager, business unit, division head.
Large scale development projects
Technology integration and outsourcing projects
(profile link on accenture.com)

Invitation to Netsoc events

Tuesday night Oct 1, UCD's Netsoc are having Quaser session in Stillorgan Leisureplex along with BYOB Bowling afterwards. Quasar will begin at 7:00pm so make sure to arrive at 6:45 at the latest. Mathsoc and Physicsoc will also be joining us for this so this will be a great chance to meet lots of new people. If you aren’t a part of Netsoc but would still like to come to this event you can sign up on the night if you want. 

Here’s a link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/315032178638253/?ref=22

Also on Wednesday morning between 11:00am – 01:00pm Netsoc are having our first Netsoc coffee morning in the Blue Room of the Student Centre, there will be Tea, Coffee, and Biscuits.

ECIS 2014 Call for Papers

ECIS is the top European Information Systems conference, run under the auspices of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

ECIS 2014: Digital Work, Digital Life
The next annual ECIS conference will take place from 9 till 11 June in Tel-Aviv, Israel
(an invitation from Chrisanthi Avgerou and Dov Te’eni, co-chairs...)
This year we invite the following types of submissions:

• Complete research papers
• Research-in-Progress papers
• Panels
• Teaching cases
• Prototypes that will be demonstrated at the conference

ECIS will also host an industry stream, with presentations from IT executives and professionals and visits to innovative Israeli digital firms.
The ECIS 2014 Doctoral Consortium will be held from 6 till 8 June. We encourage institutions from Europe, Middle East and Africa to nominate doctoral candidates who would benefit from participating in a vibrant international academic research development event.
And there is still an opportunity to propose pre-conference workshops and tutorials.

Deadlines
Pre-conference events proposals: 1 November, 2013
Complete papers, Research-in-Progress, Teaching cases and Prototypes: submission begins on 1 November, 2013; Deadline Date: 8 December, 2013
Panel submission deadline: 5 March, 2014

For more information, please visit the ECIS 2014 website at http://ecis2014.eu/

COOP 2014 call for papers

Eleventh International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems
27-30 May , 2014
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est
Nice, France
http://coop2014.wordpress.com

******* Important dates ********
- 8 November 2013 Deadline for paper submissions
- 1 February 2014 Notification of acceptance/rejection
- 15 February 2014 Camera ready Papers
- 27-30 May 2014 COOP 2014 conference in Nice

****** Introduction ************
COOP is one of the key European conferences on Cooperative Systems, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Collaborative Computing and is affiliated to EUSSET - the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies.

COOP 2014 will be the eleventh edition of the biennial COOP conference and will take place in Nice, France and hosted by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est.

Historically, COOP brought together the French tradition in Cognitive Ergonomics and the European tradition of CSCW. However, while this history is important, the focus of COOP has developed over the last few conferences. It now embraces a wider set of research questions on technologies and related issues within social, organisational and societal settings. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who contribute to the design, assessment and analysis of cooperative systems and their integration in organizations, public venues and other settings. The COOP conferences promote the idea that cooperative systems design ideally requires a deep understanding of collective activities, involving both artifacts and social practices, within a given in context.

In keeping with the conference’s tradition, COOP 2014 will take place in an Intimate setting, facilitating in-depth discussion and feedback in a multi-disciplinary environment. As well as welcoming back experienced researchers, academics and practitioners we are keen to embrace a wider research community. We welcome different perspectives from those doing relevant work who have not been to COOP before and we are paying special attention to encouraging up-and-coming researchers within the community with some specially designed features within the programme.

Contributions are solicited from a wide range of domains contributing to the fields of cooperative systems design and evaluation: CSCW, HCI, Information Systems, social and collaborative media, multi-agent systems, organizational and management sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, ergonomics, design, etc.

COOP 2014 will feature a single-track program of high-quality research papers, including a session dedicated to the work of early-career researchers, a workshops and masterclasses track and a Doctoral Colloquium.

For the “Early Career Researchers Track”, we encourage early career researchers who wish to publish their work and receive in depth-feedback (PhD students close to completion, < 3 years post-doc experience, etc.) to submit to the track, which will constitute of a special paper session in the main conference program. The papers will be included in the main conference proceedings.

********* Submissions **********
Accepted papers will be included in a book of proceedings published by Springer, and will be indexed in the ACM digital library

Full papers must be no longer than 16 pages and formatted according to the Springer template: http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0

Papers submissions will take place via Easychair and the submission system will go live in the near future.

*****Other Submission Categories*****
Submission requirements and deadlines to be announced soon for:
Workshops
Masterclasses
Doctoral Colloquium

Design Demand: Understanding 'need' through the design process

Seminar Invitation:

When? Oct 23, 2012 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM

Where? Room Q107, The Collaborative Space, 1st floor, the Quinn Building, UCD Belfield. 
Google Map reference for directions: http://goo.gl/maps/iyhoh.

Contact Name: Allen Higgins

Henry Poskitt from frontend.com poses the question "what is design?"

There are two contrasting views on the design of objects for use; one that a successful design disappears from view; the other, that design is evident in its outward character be it aesthetic, arresting, bold, pleasing etc. Although the aspiration to produce good design is pretty well embedded in the language of digital development what does it mean, really? And how do users really fare? Particularly users outside of the one-standard-deviation-from-the-bell-curve of the normal distribution?

Siobhán Long and Karl O'Keeffe from Enable Ireland Disability Services will also be on hand to field questions dealing with how users with different needs and abilities evaluate the systems that designers produce.

What came first, the business case or the prototype?

You are invited to an industry led discussion panel on software product development addressing the iBusiness class this evening (Wed 23rd Nov, 2011) from 6.30pm to 7.30pm in room D209 at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Blackrock. There will be about 70 people attending.
I'll provide a short personal introduction to each of our guests and ask them to make a brief reflection on managing high-tech products and development after which we'll have an open discussion taking questions from the floor.

What came first, the business case or the prototype?

• How do I go about getting a project off the ground in a company?
• What do I need to do to convince management to support my project?
• Is the elevator pitch important?
• What if the project is very risky?
• How important are the financials, really?
• Should my approach change in a small company versus a large company?
• Who do I need to convince?
• What came first, the business case or the prototype?

"We think about ubiquity first, revenue later."

"Figure out quickly if there is usage and adoption... You will then understand how your customers interact with your potential product and then you build a revenue model on it. The traditional view of starting with your revenue model and your business model looking for customers is somewhat less relevant in the digital world. It's 'get customers first'!"

John Herlihy, vice-president Global Ad Operations, Google

Further reading
(Banking & Finance Magazine link)

Directions:

View Larger Map
The room is located at point A. Parking in areas B and C as indicated.
Just don't park directly in front of the building as it is paid parking.

Creative Process Workshop 2010

So, this video is intended to give you an impression my thinking behind the design of the creative process workshop (from 2010) and how it worked out. I think it went well, generally fun but - I hope - an experience that illustrated some of the dynamics involved in interaction on teams working on stuff that digs into our creative juices.