SIGCHI announced the introduction of a "tutorials-to-go" program for CHI
local sigs late in 1999. This program is designed to help CHI local sigs
bring tutorials offered at the CHI conference to their locale. For more
information, see http://www.acm.org/sigchi/education/tutorials2go.html.
A sampling of specifics of things that are happening at some of the CHI
local sigs:
Europe
SIGCHI.dk and the Danish National Centre for IT research are
co-hosting a full-day conference on "User Oriented Design"
(Brugerorienteret design) on January 19th at Aarhus.
SIGCHI.NL: Op de eerste avondbijeenkomst van 2000 behandelen
Jacques Terken, taalpsycholoog bij IPO, en Ellen Bosgoed, technisch
natuurkundige bij KPN Research, het gebruik van spraak en spraak+
interfaces. Deze avondbijeenkomst vindt plaats op 11 januari bij
het CIBIT in Utrecht.
Americas (outside USA)
CapCHI's next meeting takes place on Tuesday, January 18th,
featuring Robert Gascho from Abstract Solutions, who will be
presenting "The New Face of the Internet - Dynamic Web Interfaces."
ToRCHI's January program will feature Ron Baecker & Illona Posner;
they will give a talk and lead a highly interactive discussion dealing
with the topic, "Is software documentation, help, support, and
training informing users effectively? If not, why not, and what can
we do about it?"
Australasia
SIGCHI_NZ became a chartered CHI local sig on December 14.
United States
BayCHI's program January 11: "Tools for Knowing, Judging, and
Taking Action in the 21st Century," Brenda Laurel. The North Bay
BOF will meet January 18; Eric Quakenbush will present a paper
on agents, and Jessica Freiberg will lead folks on an Autodesk
usability lab tour. The Usability Engineering BOF will also meet
January 18; Richard Anderson, Rick Bond, Janice Rohn, & Dan
Rosenberg will address "Promoting Usability in Organizations."
SanDCHI is formulating plans for a big chapter kickoff event.
ConnCHI's next meeting: January 25, 2000, "The effect of individual
characteristics on decision-support system compliance," Mark Wise.
The meeting will be hosted by Karen Ansaldi of Otis Elevator.
DC_CHI will meet January 10; Dick Horst will talk about UserWorks,
his small consulting business specializing in usability engineering
and user interface design.
CHI-Squared will vote on a new logo and t-shirt design at its
January meeting.
GB/SIGCHI's January 11 program: "Beyond E-Commerce: Designing
Educational & Informational Web Sites," Hal Miller-Jacobs & Meena
Venkateswaran.
MOCHI will feature a special usability tutorial and workshop session
led by Judy Olson on January 12 at the University of Michigan. Also,
names of people who would like to run for MOCHI office will be
collected.
GatewayCHI's January 12 meeting will focus on "Planning for the St.
Louis Metro Usability Test & Good / Bad St. Louis Designs."
BuckCHI has unveiled a new logo that will appear on mugs available
free to new and renewing BuckCHI members.
CHIFOO's program January 17: Janese Swanson, "Empowering Girls
Through Technology."
PhiCHI is delighted to have for its January 12th meeting Steven
Feiner, director of Columbia University's Computer Graphics and User
Interfaces Laboratory, who will be discussing his research on user
interface design issues for mobile augmented reality systems.
Puget Sound SIGCHI's January 19 meeting will feature a panel
discussion on search interaction.
MilwauCHI will be holding elections in January for the offices of
President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer; nominations
are being solicited.
You don't know where CapCHI or PhiCHI or ... are? You don't know if there
is a local sig in your area? For access to further information on the
above and on other CHI Local SIGs, see the SIGCHI Local SIGs webpage
(http://www.acm.org/sigchi/local-sigs/).
Richard Anderson
SIGCHI Local SIGs Chair
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