The Interaction Design Association (IXDA) is pleased to announce its first  regional conference: Interaction’09 | South America.

The Interaction’09 | South America will happen on 26,27 and 28 November at 9 am to 18 pm, in São Paulo.

The event aims to present and discuss the main lines of research in the design of interaction, promote the network among professionals in the community, presenting and promoting the discipline in many circles of knowledge: design, computer science, architecture, indicating that interdisciplinary and plurality of views are the way we act.

The purpose of the event is to encourage and work with the education of interaction design in Latin America, so has the support of several institutions of higher education, promoting greater visibility for professionals engaged in the development of interactive solutions.

Speakers confirmed:

• Nimish Biloria – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands
• Simon Biggs – Research Professor at Edinburgh College of Art, UK
• Ken Perlin – Research Professor at New York University, United States
• Juliana Ferreira – Interaction Designer at Nokia Design, UK
• Giselle Beigelman – Professor of the Communication and Semiotics Graduate Program at  Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
• Antonio Carlos Figueira de Mello (Superlimão)

via Interaction South America ’09.

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