Tamodia 2007

Last week I attended Tamodia, the 6th International workshop on Task Models and Diagrams, organized in Toulouse, France. It was a pleasant experience for many reasons. First, I presented an article about my PhD research. It is very good to talk about your research and the discussions really help in improving the current work. I am back even more motivated. Second, the networking is always great: I met people from different countries who are working with different perspectives of user interface design and task modeling of interactive systems. Talking to them was a great opportunity to share ideas. Third, seeing all those researchers that I've read their articles is very enthusiastic. Fourth, having a friend as one of the program chairs is interesting to closely follow how much hard work it is to organize all the details of a conference, but also to see that in the end, it is worth while. Last but not least, the fun part of seeing old friends and meeting new people was great, especially during the visit to the town hall (in the picture below) and the gala dinner that took place during a boat ride in the Garonne river.