Rumor has it that local sigs are organizing in India, Michigan, western New
York, Austria, and China. Watch the SIGCHI Local SIGs webpage for future
announcements.
A sampling (i.e., incomplete list) of what is or will soon be happening
(and in one case, what happened recently) in the world of CHI local sigs:
Europe
Wednesday, November 25th features the "Swiss Symposium on Intelligent
Electronic Catalogs" in Berne, sponsored by SwissCHI.
Americas (outside USA)
The 1st Brazilian Workshop in HCI -- Brazil SIGCHI's first meeting --
took place on October 9.
CapCHI's next meeting (November 18) will feature a presentation entitled,
"Improvising the Future" by Michael Kurtz. This highly interactive
workshop will involve role playing using techniques from improvisational
theatre.
ToRCHI is sponsoring a one-day professional development tutorial on
November 12 entitled, "Strategies for Promoting Organisational Usability,"
and presented by Susan Wolfe, The Hiser Group.
United States
BayCHI's featured speaker on Tuesday November 10: Ted Selker on "The
Future Feel of Tools." Tom Hewett and Colin Ware visit the Bay
Area to present BayCHI-sponsored, full-day tutorials on Saturday,
November 7 and Sunday, November 8, 1998, respectively. And the Usability
Engineering BOF will be visiting usability labs at SUN Microsystems
in November.
CHI-Squared is taking a road-trip of sorts to hear Ben Shneiderman
speak at the School of Computer Science's Distinguished Lecture Series
at DePaul University November 6th.
GB/SIGCHI's November 3rd meeting features Debbie Hildebrandt discussing
Human-to-Human Communication.
The next TwinCHI meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 12th. The
meeting will be devoted to discussing Ben Shneiderman's lecture, "The
Eyes Have It: User Interfaces for Information Visualization."
KC-CHI's November 3rd meeting will be about methods for designing
websites.
GatewayCHI's next meeting will be a dinner and planning meeting the
evening of November 18.
Louis Tijerina will speak on "Data Entry while Driving" at BuckCHI's
next meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 10.
For access to further information on the above and on what is happening
with other CHI Local SIGs, see the SIGCHI Local SIGs webpage
(http://www.acm.org/sigchi/local-sigs/).
Richard Anderson
Local SIGs Chair
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