Things quiet down in many CHI local sigs during the summer. However, some chapters are active. Here is a sampling of what is happening: Europe SIGCHI Austria recently announced its "prospective" beginnings. SwissCHI's program on 29 June: "Benutzervtrauen in E-Shops - Messmethoden und Designkriterien" Speaker: Matthias Kammerer. Americas (outside USA) ToRCHI co-sponsored a presentation during June by Ian Witten on "Browsing Around a Digital Library." This was in addition to their co-sponsorship of a full-day tutorial entitled, "Usable for the Rest of the World: A Practical Guide to Carrying Out Successful International User Studies" (Susan Dray). United States BayCHI's main program July 11 features two presentations: "Making Computers Accessible to Everyone," Neil Scott, Stanford, and "Interfaces of the Gestalt: Dealing with Computing Everywhere," Dan Russell, IBM. BayCHI North will meet on July 18; presentation: "The Redesign of a Corporate Internal Web Site Featuring Before and After Screenshots" (Wendy Sterndale). BayCHI-Web will meet on July 25: presentation: "Dynamic Usability Testing and eyeTracking" (Sandra Marshall). AND the BayCHI Usability Engineering BOF will meet on July 18; presentation: "Research-based Recommendations for Web Site Design" (Bob Bailey). Rocky Mountain CHI met during June and has activities planned throughout the summer. Momentum is building in Colorado. DC_CHI is on summer break. CHI-Squared's meeting in June featured a presentation by SIGCHI Chair Marilyn Tremaine on "Sound News: An Interface Design for Newspaper Browsing." GB/SIGCHI's July 11 program: "Web Page Interaction Pragmatics," Jamison H. Abbott of Usable By Design. Refreshments precede the meeting by one half hour. LowellCHI will meet July 20. Speaker: Matt Belge, Vision & Logic; presentation: "Designing for E-Commerce." MOCHI's July 12 meeting will feature Professor Paul Resnick on the topic of "Beyond Bowling Together: SocioTechnical Capital." The meeting will be on the campus of the University of Michigan. Book reviews from the MOCHI bookgarden are now available on the MOCHI website. NYC CHI will meet the evening of July 17 at Viant. Activity: the design of the NYC CHI website. (This promises to be alot of fun.) GatewayCHI will gather for its traditional informal meeting over dinner July 12. MilwauCHI is seeking volunteers to talk about their "Good & Bad Experiences Completing Tasks on the Web" during their August 1 meeting. You don't know where NYC CHI or LowellCHI or TORCHI 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 ___________________________________________________________________ Richard I. Anderson Usability/Design/Discovery Adventures voice: +1 415 383-5689 x2 fax: +1 415 383-5187 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] 63 Woodside Lane, Mill Valley CA 94941 USA http://www.well.com/user/riander/