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Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T;) has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.
ASIS&T; counts among its membership some 4,000 information specialists from such fields as computer science, linguistics, management, librarianship, engineering, law, medicine, chemistry, and education; individuals who share a common interest in improving the ways society stores, retrieves, analyzes, manages, archives and disseminates information, coming together for mutual benefit.
As a professional society committed to the educational, scientific and literary pursuits associated with the transfer of knowledge about information, ASIS&T; serves the collective needs of a multi-disciplinary constituency. To do so ASIS&T; has been responsible for organization of the international IA Summits since 2000 and this year made it possible to organize EURO IA 2005.
Website: http://www.asis.org
The Information Architecture Institute is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. Founded in 2002, the Institute has over 800 members in 40 countries.
The Information Architecture Institute (formerly The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture or AIfIA) serves to advance the design of shared information environments. We support a global community infrastructure that connects people, ideas, content, and tools.
Operated by a dedicated, multi-national group of people volunteering our own resources, we aspire to build bridges to related disciplines and organizations through research, education, advocacy and community service. We invite you to join us in advancing the state of information architecture.
Website: http://www.iainstitute.org
User Intelligence is a user experience design and evaluation collective based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Our consultants work on the design and evaluation of complex, interactive products and services, usually applicatons on websites, mobile phones, interactive TV, or desktops. We always keep the end-user in mind, without losing sight of the business context of our clients.
This translates into the following services:
- user experience research (find out how users behave and why
- user experience design (iteratively design usable products)
- user experience evaluation (test the appropriateness of designs)
- user experience strategy (help decide when and how much to invest)
- user experience process design (help define how you design)
- user experience research & education (learn and share what we learn)
Contact us for more information about how our services can help you and your users.
Website: http://www.userintelligence.com