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» 19-24 July
2009 - HCIi
At HCI International 2009 in San Diego, California, we will present two of our latest
works. A full appear on "Love at First Encounter" addresses the
start-up experience with new applications. "Network Effects of
Synthetic Services" deals with the generation of value for users by means
of synthesizing mobile services in Japan.
» 1. March 2009
– We moved to a new office space and have new phone numbers.
We moved to large office spaces at Josetti Höfe in Berlin where lots of
small business are located. So we just exchanged one vibrant area of Berlin
for another one.
» 15. October
2008 - Wireless ICT
Henning presents recent developments and trends
for mobile applications in Japan at the WCI conference in Berlin. Usage scenarios related to mobile learning and
literature, mobile mangas and TV, QR-Codes, and contactless payment, and
the ecosystems these applications create provide lessons to be learned for
the European market.
» 4. July 2008 -
Educational Technologies
Henning presents his latest research on
interactive environments for contextual learning at the ED-Media World Conference of Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications in Vienna and
the IEEE ICALT Conference in Santander, Spain.
» 30. March 2008
- 2D Barcodes
We just completed a study on past experiences and
future business prospects for 2D barcodes in Korea and Japan. Linking the
physical and the online world use of barcodes is already an indispensable
and omnipresent aspect of east asian mobile culture.
» 13. March 2008
- WinWriters conference in Portland, Oregon.
Bogo is an invited speaker at the WinWriters conference.
Bogo will talk about benefiting from Web2.0 practices for corporate
communication and user assistance, present an essential toolkit for
information architects, and participate at the pundit panel.
» 12. March 2008
- Usability expert panel at Bentley College, USA
As every year, Bogo participates at the usability experts
panel at the Bentley College, USA. Together with Joe Dumas, Tom
Tullis, Gregg Almquist, Bob Virzi and James Elroy, Bogo will discuss
usability profession, trends and experiences with the students of the Information Design program at Bentley.
» 10. March 2008
- Completed a project on personalization
We just completed a project where we developed
personalization concepts for a large consumer portal and conceptualized and
detailed several consumer tools. We will present the experiences at several
conferences in 2008.
» 8. March 2008
- Quality management project successfully completed
A project for a large car manufacturer in Germany
completed. In this complex IT-project we provided quality management and
quality assurance support, detailing QM- and QS-processes and supported the
teams.
» 6. March 2008
- Usability Conference in Copenhagen
Bogo was an invited speaker at the usability
conference in Copenhagne, organized by DANSK-IT. Bogo talked
about experience in involving users into design activities.
» 15. February
2008 - Information Design Journal publishes an
interview with Bogo Vatovec
An interview with Bogo, conducted by Saul Carliner
during the STC conference, was published in the Information Design
Journal, Volume 15, Number 3, 2007.
» 30. January
2008 - Pecha Kucha
Henning will present selected works and stories
from our research and consulting activities at the original Pecha Kucha
night in Super Deluxe, Tokyo.
» 15. December
2007 - Mobile Contexts
We present our latest paper on mobile systems for
contextual learning and the IEICE conference for Educational Technologies
in Fukuoka, Kyushu, the southern island of Japan. We focus on the question
how mobile technologies can be applied to support learning activities in
location, time and user-releated contexts.
» 10. December
2007 - Disaster Prevention
We are participating in an international project
to set up an early warning system for natural disasters. Information from
various resources and geographically distributed sensors is brought
together and visualised in a complex decision support system. Applying
expert evaluations and eye-tracking studies our first job was the
evaluation and improvement of the preliminary interfaces for the decision
maker.
» 30. November
2007 - Migration
We delivered a concept how to inform users about
the new features and content on the website of a big German broadcasting network.
The concept covers essential information about the relaunch, portraits of
new content domains, a quick reference card for printout and structured
ways to obtain and analyse user feedback. We are curious about the results.
» 22. November
2007 - Japans Mobile Economy
We conducted our second travel to leading
institutions in Japanese IT Research and Development. This time we visited
large companies like KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Sony, NEC, Waseda University, NICT
and Bridgestone. We thank our hosts for presenting such innovative topics
like fingerbone conduction, powder-based flexible displays, 3D displays,
sonic data transmission, free-viewpoint television and many more.
» 1. November
2007 - Pattern Workshops
We prepared and conducted a series of workshops
"How to work with Interaction Design Patterns". We explained
advantages and potential workflows for the interaction design pattern
approach in large companies and provided hand-on experiences. Within the three
hour workshops participants learned how to extract patterns from existing
solutions and how to apply them in the context of service development.
» 3. September
2007 - Pattern Evaluation
Continuing our work on interaction design patterns
as a means to communicate and institutionalize usability issues we conduct
an empirical evaluation of working with patterns in cooperation with the Interaction Design Lab in Potsdam.
» 16. August
2007 - Technology Radar
Scouting for new developments in ICT in Japan we
found more than four dozen. For Technology Radar of the Deutsche Telekom-Laboratories we delivered profiles for upcoming technologies like mobile
multiplayer and voice-control games, domestic robotics, and large projected
interfaces.
» 28. July 2007
- KDDI
Consolidating cooperations with Japanese R&D
we presented our works on early phases of mobile interaction design to
Japanese institutions such as KDDI
Research and Development Laboratories.
» 11. April 2007
- Interview with PingMag
The English / Japanese Design Magazine PingMag
interviewed Henning in Tokyo and now published an article about his work
there. Have a look and feel free to comment on PingMag . If you want join Henning learning Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji see
the Japanese
Version.
» 2. February
2007 - Webscore Expert Analysis
In cooperation with the Interaction Design Lab of
the University for Applied Sciences Potsdam we conducted an expert
evaluation of the prototype and alternative designs within the website
redesign of the Investment Bank of Berlin .
» 25. December
2006 - Successfull 2006 and a great start in the 2007
We are happy to say that the 2007 has been an
extremely successfull year for bovacon. We are even more happy to announce
the fact that we prolonged contracts with all our clients and acquired new
businesses for the 2007.
We wish our clients and other visitors of our
website lots of sucess in the New Year.
» 20. October
2006 - 28. February 2007 - Research and Technology Scouting in Japan
Henning is spending 4 months on a research
fellowship at the Waseda
University in Tokyo after having
received an invitation and award from NICT, the National Institute of Information and
Communication Technology, Japan. An
update on his activities is posted on our News section.
» 2. October
2006 - Migration Project.
Applying various methods like heuristic
evaluations, contextual task analysis and a migration-workshop we accompany
the transition of the online activities of a large public radio and
television network. The project continues in cooperation with the
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
» 29. September
2006 - Presentation at the European Information Architecture Summit.
Bogo is delivering a presentation about our study
of content adaptation solutions and their impact on information architects
and their work.
» 28. September
2006 - Workshop: Introduction to usability.
Expanding services at one of our regular clients
with usability. For a client where we regularly work as process and
software engineering consultants, Bogo conducted an introductury workshop
on usability. The goal is to establish usability as one of the key competencies
for the client in the future.
» 27. September
2006 - ICT Perspectives on our aging society.
Henning finished and presented the results of an
in-depth study for German
Telekom Laboratories. We conducted a
literature study, expert interviews, user studies on the impact of the
demographic change to the design and development of information and
communication technologies. Results covered latest research findings,
prototypes and product evaluations and guidelines for developing
technologies suitable for elderly users.
» 18. August
2006 - Online Survey.
We created an online survey on gaming habits and
usage of the gamona network www.gamona.de for Webguidez Entertainment GmbH.
» 7. June 2006 -
Redesign of a web portal for a non-profit organization.
As a manager of the STC Information Design and
Architecture community, Bogo will be managing the effort of redesigning the
STC website.
» 2. June 2006 -
Interaction Design Patterns.
We participated in a large commercial research and
development project on interaction design patterns to create a unified user
experience across applications, platforms and devices. The project is being
conducted in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and
the Fraunhofer IAO Stuttgart.
» 5. June 2006 -
Keynote at the CIDM Best Practices Conference in September.
Bogo will give a keynote at the Best Practices
conference of The Center for Information-Development Management in San
Diego, California.
» 1. June 2006 -
Presentation at the localization class for Bentley College, USA on June 15.
Bogo will remotely via video-conference present at
the localization class at the Bentley College, Boston, USA. The focus will
be on the new trends and challenges in the localization and information
industry and experiences from Europe
» 25. May 2006 -
Keynote at the Citec Information Academy (CIA) on June 14.
Bogo will present his views on the importance of
technical communication and future trends at the next Citec Information
Academy (CIA) seminar on 14. June 2006 in Helsinki, Finland.
» 12. April 2006
- Eyetracking study for Immobiliensout24
We conducted an eyetracking-evaluation of
different design approaches in the redesign of Immobilienscout24 website.
» 31. March 2006
- Content adaption study
We concluded the study on content adaptation
solutions for mobile devices. Solutions make it possible to display large
websites on a mobile device, but do not make the site necessarily usable.
» 26. March 2006
- ED-Media conference paper
Henning will present a paper at the ED-Media 2006
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications.
» 16. March 2006
- NICT Award Japan
Henning was granted the NiCT-Award of Japan. In
the end of 2006 he will visit the Waseda University Tokyo.
» 10. March 2006
- Technology Review interview
Bogo was interviewed and is featured in two
articles in the M.I.T. Technology Review Magazine.
» 3. March 2006
- Inflight entertainment concept
Together with our partner Wunderman we worked on a
conceptual redesign of a reach-media inflight entertainment system for a
large airline.
» 1. March 2006
- Content adaption project
We just started on a new project: a quantitative
and qualitative evaluation of content adaptation solution for mobile
devices.
» 1. February 2006
- Multimedia composer study
We finished a user experience study of a
multimedia composer application. More details in the News section.
» 25. January
2006 - TCANZ - conference presentation
An article by Mike Unwalla reports from the TCANZ
conference in New Zealland where Bogo hold two presentation - see old News.
Download
article as PDF.
» 25. January 2006
- Interface design presentation
At the Center for Human-Machine Interaction at the
Technical University of Berlin we presented previous works together with
the Interaction Design Lab (IDL) Potsdam.
» 27. December
2005 - Project management consulting
Managing large and many projects at the same time
is a challenge. In a new consulting project for a software development
company, we are defining a program and project management methodology for
managing programs and large projects.
» 20. December
2005 - Project management methodology
In a consulting project for one development area
of the largest software development companies we are defining the project
management methodology and the necessary training for project managers.
» 13. December
2005 - STC organization management
Bogo Vatovec has been nominated a manager of the
Society for Technical Communication (STC) Special Interest Group (SIG)
Information Architecture and Design. For more information about the STC
organization, see www.stc.org.
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