Wednesday May 12, 2010
Time: 9:00am - 10:00 am
Event: Concurrent Session
Designing Court Websites for the 21st Century
Speaker: Dominic Jaar, CEO, Canadian Centre for Court Technology
Description:
Ever looked at existing court websites? Yes, you are right! Most of them were created in the last century
and are poorly managed, if they're managed at all. This session will walk
you through the exercise that the members of the Intellaction Working Group on court
websites of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology have achieved over the last year:
review of existing court web sites, needs analysis and drafting of best practices for the
development, implementation and maintenance of a court website.
Objectives:
- Learn about developing websites.
- Learn to use all the web has to offer.
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- Learn to maintain and improve your website in a cost-effective fashion.
Organized by: Programming Committee
Time: 9:00am - 10:00 am
Event: Concurrent Session
Title: Information Visualization: The Theory and Practice of Intelligent Interface Design
Speaker:
Dr. Kamran Sedig
Associate Professor, Joint appointment in Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Science) and Faculty of
Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Description:
How do people learn? How do the eyes and the brain search for and interpret information? How can the psychology
of learning help us to design intelligent interfaces which quickly convey meaning to users? Did you know there is
an entire field of study devoted to using psychology to design interfaces? The discipline is called information
visualization. Join us for this session in which you will learn more about the theory and practice of information
visualization.
Objective of Session:
- To learn about information visualization as a field of study.
- To learn about information visualization theories.
- To hear about ways these theories have been put into practice in libraries and other virtual contexts.
Organized by: Programming Committee
Time: 10:30am - 11:30 am
Event: Plenary
Title: As the Law is a Discipline of Words, Are the Linguistically Challenged Being Served by the Criminal Justice System?
Speaker:
Hon. Madame Justice Micheline Rawlins
- Madame Justice, Ontario Provincial Court.
- First black woman to be appointed to the Ontario Provincial Court (1992).
- Winner of numerous awards, including National Congress of Black Women Outstanding Contribution to Women, to Law and
to Canada Award 2002, The Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal 2002, and Windsor Woman of the Year 2004.
- Former member of the Board of Governors at the University of Windsor.
Organized by: Programming Committee
Time: 11:30am - 12pm
Event: CALL/ACBD Annual General Meeting Part II, and Presentation by CPC 2011.
