Here is a sampling of what is happening in the world of CHI Local SIGs:
Africa
CHI-SA was chartered on February 13. It's founding Chair: Jacques Hugo.
Americas (outside the U.S.)
Brazil CHI's website now features interviews with CHI experts. New
interviews are added periodically.
CapCHI's next meeting will feature Brian Thompson from Nortel Networks,
who will present, "XML." Date: February 27.
ToRCHI will meet February 27. Speaker: Steve Easterbrook; presentation:
"Requirements Engineering: finding out what customers really need."
Asia / Pacific
Paper submissions and registrations are due in February for Easy 2001,
India's first conference on software usability. The conference will be
presented by CHI South India in March.
Europe
SIGCHI.DK: 20 februar, Den politiske informationsarkitekt.
SIGCHI.dk/Kids: 27 februar, Interaktivt-tv og HCI.
The founding meeting of SIGCHI Finland will be on February 1st, 2001
in Tampere, Finland.
SIGCHI Italy has announced HCITALY'01, the symposium it will be
sponsoring in September in Florence in conjunction with a conference on
ergomomics organised by the Italian Association of Ergonomics.
SwissCHI's next event: February 22: " Automation im Cockpit Change oder
Gefahr?.
United States
BayCHI's program February 13 starts with a half hour of viewing the
electronic
sculptures of Bruce Cannon, drinking tea/coffee, and more, then continues
with
presentations by Bruce Cannon ("Sculpture as Pure Interface") and Jan
Borchers
of Stanford ("Groovy Patterns: HCI, Interactive Music Exhibits, and Pattern
Languages"). BayCHI-East will hold its inaugural event February 28: "The
Goal-
Directed (R) Method: A Conversation with Alan Cooper." BayCHI is
sponsoring a
full-day tutorial by Jeff Johnson: "GUI Bloopers: Recognizing and
Avoiding Common
GUI Design Mistakes" (February 24).
Rocky Mountain CHI will be meeting Thursday evening Feb 22nd in
conjunction with the SUN HCI interest group. The speaker will be Arnie
Lund,
who will be stepping through a talk called "Your Future in HCI:
Preparing for
Research and Practice in the New Century."
DC_CHI's February meeting is a joint one with the DC's STC Usability SIG,
and it is scheduled for Wednesday, February 7. The speaker is Ginny Redish;
the topic of her talk is "Structuring Your Documents to Maximize Reuse."
CHI*Atlanta met in late January with a program entitled, "Atlanta's
Technology
Future: Where Are We Going?" Speaker: Susan Wells.
CHI-Squared will be meeting in the Sears Tower for its January meeting on
the 28th. The topic will be, "Supporting Children's Science Inquiry Learning
Using Advanced Visualization Technologies." Speaker: Tom Moher.
GB/SIGCHI's next meeting will be the evening of February 13. Speaker:
Colin Ware; topic: "Vision Science, Visual Space, and Visualization."
NYC-CHI will assemble Monday Feburary 12 at Viant for a presentation
entitled, "Navigating Sound: the catalog of Philip Glass, online." Speaker:
Mark Podlaseck.
CHIFOO's next meeting: February 20. "Through the Users' Eyes: Using
Participatory Design to Refine Your Product Definition" will be presented
by Kristine Maneely. The CHIFOOD prior to the evening meeting will feature
pizza and pasta.
MilwauCHI will meet February 6. The topic is "Web Accessibility: Creating
Web Pages that Transform Gracefully." The presenter will be Shawn Henry of
Optavia. (Membership applications for 2001 are due February 15.)
You don't know where CHIFOO, GB/SIGCHI, ToRCHI, CapCHI, SIGCHI.DK,
BayCHI, or ... are? Take a look at the SIGCHI Local SIGs webpage
(http://www.acm.org/sigchi/local-sigs/) to find out.
Richard Anderson
SIGCHI Local SIGs Chair
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Usability/Design/Discovery Adventures
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Usability/Design/Discovery Adventures
phone: +1 415 383-5689 x2
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