Usability Designer (temporary), Uppsala The Life Sciences Systems department at GE Healthcare in Uppsala, Sweden, is searching for a usability designer. The position involves being part of a large and international team that develops hardware and software for protein science applications, mainly in the area of liquid chromatography. The usability activities are mainly focused on MS-Windows based software applications used for control of laboratory equipment and production systems. Deadline 26 october. Läs hela platsannonsen.

SIGRAD-konferensen ska fokusera på “Interaktion” i år och bl.a. Jonas Löwgren kommer att vara inbjuden talare – programmet kommer att anslås på sigrad.se i oktober. Call for papers The Swedish Chapter of Eurographics invites contributions to the conference SIGRAD 2008, which will be held at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, November 27–28, 2008. The theme of this year’s conference is “Interactivity”. We invite full papers and short papers on all aspects of interactive computer graphics and related areas describing either proven and tested solutions or novel ideas and concepts. Topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following areas: Graphical user interfaces Interactive visualisation Computational steering User interfaces for visualisation Training and simulation Real-time rendering methods Systems and software architectures Solutions and algorithms for virtual/augmented reality applications Experimental studies of existing methods and techniques Instructions to the authors Submissions may be full papers or short papers. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in length. Short papers, describing novel ideas, work-in-progress and/or recent results, should be no longer than 4 pages. Note that both types of submissions must be formatted according to the same recommended style mentioned below, and all accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the conference. Authors are requested to submit their paper by September 30th, 2008 by email to submissions2008@sigrad.se. The subject of the email should be “SIGRAD submission”. Authors experiencing problems with electronic submission of contributions should contact the conference chair directly. The submission email should contain the names and institutions of all authors, contact information of one contact author (name, e-mail and phone), and the title and abstract of the submission. Use the guidelines and layout found in the SIGGRAPH author instructions. Conference committee Nils-Erik Gustafsson, IT-Arkitekterna Anders Hast, University of Gävle Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Telestream AB Lars Kjelldahl, Royal Institute of Technology Thomas Larsson, Mälardalen University

Onsdag 10 september, kl 18.00. På KTH, gamla “CID-torget“, CSC/IPLab, plan 6. Peter Krantz och Magnus Burell berättar om vad Verva gör när det gäller användbarhet. Det blir något om den mest kända aktiviteten – Vägledningen 24-timmarswebben – men troligen också om nya uppdrag som är på gång, t.ex. användbarhet i interna system. Sedan blir det Q&A med Peter och Magnus. Peter och Magnus råkar vara pristagare i tävlingen “Oanvändbara produkter” som hölls inför World Usability Day 2007. De kommer redovisa bilder och reflektioner kring designpriset – en resa till Bauhausmuseet i Berlin!