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 ___________________________________________________________________ Richard I. Anderson Usability/Design/Discovery Adventures phone: +1 415 383-5689 x2 [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/ ___________________________________________________________________ Richard I. Anderson Usability/Design/Discovery Adventures phone: +1 415 383-5689 x2 [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/