Hi all,
Here is a sampling of some of what is happening in the world of CHI Local
SIGs during the month of September:
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Americas (outside the U.S.)
-> ToRCHI (Toronto) starts on 19 September the new season with a panel
discussion on HCI and Learning featuring Charles Silverman, Antonia Palmer,
and Anastasia Cheetham. We also begin with an upgraded website and a newly
expanded library.
Europe
-> SIGCHI Italy is co-organizing a symposium on Human-Computer Interaction
with mobile devices that will be held in Pisa, 18-20 September (more
information at
http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/mobilehci02.html ). In conjunction with this
event, on September 18th there will be a SIGCHI Italy meeting to discuss
future events.
United States
-> BayCHI (San Francisco Bay Area, California) announces their September
meeting on Tuesday, September 10, 2002.
Presentations: The Kiss of the Spiderbot by Steven Pemberton (CWI and W3C)
and Open Source Meets Usability by Nancy Frishberg (Sun Microsystems),
Peter Trudelle (Netscape Communications/AOL Time Warner), Scooter Morris
(Genentech)
Time: 7:00–9:30 pm (7:00–7:30: Tea, Coffee, Socializing, Joining BayCHI,
... ;7:30–9:30: presentations)
Location: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(BayCHI meeting attendance is free & open to the public.)
For more information on BayCHI´s meeting and BOF events available
at: http://www.baychi.org/
-> SanD CHI (San Diego, California): In their September meeting Kathy
Fernandes (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center) will deliver a talk:
"Information Visualization and Situation Awareness-HCI Design in a Military
Environment" in which she will present an overview of her work in the areas
of information visualization and situation awareness and will describe some
of the
unique aspects (opportunities and challenges!) of HCI design in a military
environment. For information on date, time and location please contact
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-> CHIFOO (Portland, Oregon)
-> Announces its new executive council (David Stubbs - Chair, Shirley De
Rose - Vice Chair, Leo Frishberg - Program Chair, Tristan Robinson -
Treasurer, Cindy Merrill - Secretary, Terry Chadwick - Secretary)
-> In their next meeting (Final Series Presentation), on Tuesday September
17, 2002 Keith Instone (IBM.COM and Usableeb.com, Toledo, Ohio) will
present hat has happened so far this year in human-computer interaction,
information architecture, usability engineering and user experience? Keith
will review what he has seen and has not seen, such as how user experience
is being accepted by business, how information architects are organizing
themselves, and how diverse professional societies are beginning to work
together.
Location: PCC Capital Center Auditorium, Room 1508
NW 185th Ave & Walker Rd, Beaverton
Time: 5:30 PM No-host dinner (Old Chicago Pizza, 17960 NW Evergreen Pkwy,
Beaverton); 7:00 PM Networking; 7:30 PM Presentation
Price: (Members: $3.00,General Admission: $8.00)
Map and more information available at: http://www.chifoo.org/
-> Gateway CHI (St. Louis, Missouri) is organizing a joint meeting with the
local chapter of the Society of Techincal Communications. The details of
the meeting follow:
Title: Using Information Architecture to Organize Content
Speaker: Kathy Marshak (IconMedialab)
Date: Wednesday, September 25th
Time: 5-6pm Networking; 6-7:30pm Presentation
Location: The Heights, Richmond Heights Community Center
8001 Dale Avenue
Richmond Heights, MO 63143
More information available at: http://www.acm.org/chapters/gatewaychi/
-> GB/SIGCHI (Boston, Massachusetts) invites all to their next meeting in
which Pat Jordan (Contemporary Trends Institute) will give a presentation
on "LIFESTYLE-CENTERED DESIGN - BEYOND USABILITY". The meeting will be on
September 10th at 7:00 pm (refreshments will be available at 6:30 pm) at
Bentley College, Waltham MA. RSVP to: [log in to unmask] Map, directions,
and more information available at: http://www.gbsigchi.org/
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If you don't know if there is a Local SIG next to you or to your next
destination, or for a complete list of all SIGCHI Local Chapters please
take a look at http://www.sigchi.org/local-sigs/). Just for a glimpse,
currently there are XX SIGCHI Local Chapters located in Africa, Americas
(US and outside US), Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Middle East.
Raquel O. Prates
Vice-Chair for Chapters
SIGCHI/ACM
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