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» 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.