2AD: The Second International Conference on Appliance Design
The Second International Conference on APpliance Design
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May 11-13 2004 HP Labs, Bristol UK

2AD: The Second International Conference on Appliance Design took place on May 11-13.

Over 130 delegates from around the world presented papers, posters, demonstrations and design exhibits over three days at HP Labs, Bristol UK.

The second in this international conference series was sponsored by HP Labs, IDEO, Inmarsat, Nationwide, Steelcase and The Appliance Studio. The first in the series, 1AD, held in Bristol in 2003, was also attended by commercial and academic delegates from leading research centres worldwide.


3AD

The next event in the series, 3AD, will be held in 2005. 3AD will feature an extended Appliance Bazaar, expanded keynote discussions with key thinkers in the appliance design space, a research papers programme, and the 3AD design competition with a prize sponsored by an leading international design company.


More about 2AD....

2AD is the shape of conferences to come, according to Ann Light at usabiltynews.com more....

Technologies Designed for Life more...

Download the 2AD final conference programme (pdf)
Download the 2AD media release (pdf)

Phil Stenton: welcome from the conference chair (pdf)


View images from the conference

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Download the slides from Bill Sharpe's keynote at 2AD (powerpoint 5.4Mb)

Mobile Phone: Friend or Foe? asks Scott Jenson, one of this year's four keynote speakers more...

The E-assistant from conference sponsors Nationwide Buiness Futures Group more...

Music where you are  - the Intelligent street. A demo of immersive music controlled by your mobile phone is to be shown at The Appliance Bazaar more...

Pin and Play Lancaster University's ubicomp research group demos their smart surface wirefree networking technology more...


Ange A wearable musical interface inspired by Ange Anatomique, by Jacques Fabien Gauthier d’Agoty, an 18th century medical engraving. more...

What's all this stuff good for? read about Bill Gaver's keynote at 2AD more...


....and read about last year's conference

"Too clever for our own good" The Engineer
"Gadgets go back to basics" BBCi
"Information Appliances herald the New Usability" Usability News
"Serving up schminky" from HP Invent's m-pulse magazine



The AD series of events are the international forum for the new discipline of appliance design that will reach across historical and discipline boundaries, blending physical, functional, interactive, graphical, and information design for new information appliances. Of paramount concern to the broadcasting, entertainment, computing and telecommunications industries, appliance design represents a coherent approach to the design of new media and information appliances and the systems in which they are embedded.

The aim of the AD conference series is to create a dialogue between disciplines – including product and industrial design, information design, interaction design, technology innovation and research in human-centered studies – which will help traditional disciplines re-establish themselves in a new context and so drive forward knowledge in an industry where users will increasingly assert their demand for products that fit into their daily lifestyles.

Conference Chair
Phil Stenton HP Labs UK
Programme chair
Bill Sharpe The Appliance Studio Ltd UK
Programme Committee
Sharon Bauley London Institute UK
Alison Black Alison Black Consulting UK
Owen Daly-Jones Serco UK
Bill Gaver RCA UK
Richard Hull HP Labs UK
Irene McAra-McWilliam RCA UK
Bill Moggridge IDEO US
Jo Reid HP Labs UK
Tom Rodden Equator UK
Phil Stenton HP Labs UK
Terry West Steelcase US
Conference Director
Peter Thomas University College London UK

 
 

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2AD conference proceedings

The 2AD conference proceedings contains all contributions at the conference more...

 

 

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