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It's that time again! EPSScentral LLC is now accepting submissions for the 2007 Performance Centered Design Awards! Here's your chance to gain recognition for yourself, your organization, your solution or tool, and your business sponsor.

DEADLINE: 01 August 2007, midnight GMT - 4hr.

The PCD Awards for 2007 will again showcase innovation that best represents performance-centered design (PCD) in two categories - PCD Solutions and Extraordinary PCD Development Tools. You may submit entries that are currently in-production (deployed to real users, or currently marketed and sold to real customers) or at the concept stage (FUNCTIONING proofs-of-concept, design prototypes and products that are not yet in production but have measurable or anticipated measurable PCD value).

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DEADLINE: 01 August 2007, midnight GMT - 4hr.

To enter, please follow this checklist:

Prepare and submit a publishable HTML entry using the Entry Forms provided below, by the deadline:

PCD Solution - Solutions for end-users (performers).

PCD Tool - Tools for developing solutions for performers.

Please review past entries for examples. Note the quality of the submissions. Include images, screen-shots and the like to best communicate your entry.
Supplement the above html entry with a URL, CD, DVD, memory card, or video tape of the live experience so that judges can experience your offering in as concrete a manner as possible. If you are providing a secure URL, provide at least 5 (five) logins.
Submit your entry fee (see below for amount) via check, PayPal (pay to email address pcdawardsepsscentral.net) or call EPSScentral at 1-703-842-7437 to pay by American Express.
Sign and date a publication release form (click here), which must be FAXed or postmarked by the deadline. If FAXed, the original must be received by EPSScentral before awards can be finalized
If you submit your entry electronically, then you must FAX a verification form (click here) to EPSScentral at +1.703.842.7439 no later than midnight, 01 August 2007 GMT - 4 hr, with your signature, verifying that your electronic submissions, including payment, were deployed before the deadline.

>>Do NOT use email for submissions over 2MB. Alternatively, send a CD or DVD, provide ftp information, or contact EPSScentral to obtain the URL for our digital drop box.

>>All mailed submissions must be USPS postmarked or include an equivalent time/date stamp for FedEx, UPS, Airborne, etc. before midnight 01 August 2007.

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Entry fees for 2007: Corporate and non-DOD government entries: US$495. Student entries: US$199 for full or part time students whose entries are not in any way connected to corporate or government sponsored initiatives (e.g., graduate class projects, thesis/dissertation material, or post-graduate projects are acceptable). US DoD Entries (US Active Military Projects only, not DoD contractors): FEES WAIVED. Student projects that are affiliated with formal contracts between organizations and educational institutions that specify work-for-hire must be submitted in the corporate or non-DOD government categories.

DEADLINE: 01 August 2007, midnight GMT - 4hr.

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Details :

(1) PCD Solutions are designed for clients, organizations, for internal or external use, as student projects, prototypes, and the like. These include:

(a) Traditional EPSS - external or extrinsic "EPSS" solutions with designs rooted primarily in learning or reference;

(b) Performance-centered workflow solutions or "Workflow Learning Tools" - any PCD solution with a focus on directly supporting business processes (aka workflow);

(c) PCD makeovers - solutions that replace existing user interfaces with ones that exhibit attribute and behaviors of performance-centered systems;

(d) Embedded/ intrinsic PCD solutions - performer-centered solutions that are strictly embedded in the task context and focus on task completion - not learning - without breaking the task context or flow;

(e) PCD featuring innovative technology - any performance-centered solution that features technology other than just a user interface to enable or enhance performance; and

(f) Other distinguishing categories that may be assigned, depending on the PCD value of the entry. So do not worry if your proposed entry does not seem to fit the listed subcategories.

(2) Extraordinary PCD Tools for developing performance-centered systems and functions, in production or at the prototype/proof-of-concept stage:

(a) Comprehensive web-based portals or content/learning/knowledge management systems that include features and functions specifically designed to create and support performance-centered systems for performers (end-users).

(b) Specialty performance support tools that address one or more elements of the PCD lifecyle, including but not limited to:

Process/workflow modeling and/or simulation

User experience, interface development/generation, usability

Content, information, knowledge engineering

Real-time assembly of performance objects

(c) Other distinguishing categories of PCD tools that may be assigned, depending on the PCD value of the entry.

NOTE: All PCD Solutions and Tools must be working systems. If you are submitting a prototype or proof-of-concept that is not yet production-ready, it must be a WORKING system that exhibits most of the capabilities intended for deployment. No mockups or low-fidelity renderings will be accepted.

PCD AWARD SAMPLES

The PCD Awards have been given since 1997. Previous award recipients may be viewed here.

DATES, FEES, DEADLINES and SUBMISSION FORMS:

Entries must be submitted by midnight 01 August 2007 GMT- 4 hrs.

Entry fees for 2007: Corporate and non-US DoD government entries: US$495. Student entries: US $199 for full or part time students whose entries are not in any way connected to corporate or government sponsored initiatives (e.g., graduate class projects, thesis/dissertation material, or post-graduate projects are acceptable). US DoD Entries (Active Military Projects only, not DoD contractors): FEES WAIVED. Student projects that are affiliated with formal contracts between organizations and educational institutions that specify work-for-hire must be submitted in the corporate or non-DoD government categories.

ELIGIBILITY

The PCD Awards are open to businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals engage in performance centered design activities (EPSS, Workflow Learning, PCD, User-centered design, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Human Factors Engineering, Knowledge Management etc.). Vendors are welcome to submit their work but are strongly encouraged to do so in partnership with clients.

JUDGING

PCD Awards are judged by practitioners unaffiliated with EPSScentral.

Direct your questions to pcdawardsepsscentral.net.

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