*** HCI Community Service Design Contest *** Addison Wesley Publishers is sponsoring a User Interface Design Contest in connection with the publication of: Designing the User Interface: 4th edition Ben Shneiderman & Catherine Plaisant The Challenge Students are asked to create a Web site to help a campus, community, neighborhood, healthcare, philanthropic, museum, or educational organization. The Goal By engaging students in the challenges and rewards of community service students gain a valuable real-world experience and make a difference in their communities. Enter the Contest Instructors of Fall 2004 courses in Human-Computer Interaction, user interface design, Web usability, and related courses in the U.S. and Canada are invited to participate. Students can compete individually, in teams, or as a class (that's up to you), to work with these non-profit organizations building and improving their Web sites. Each instructor will select a winning entry for each course section and submit a 500-word description containing the URL of the student work during November 5-15, 2004. Each submitting team will get their choice of three books from the Addison-Wesley book list. Then the 5-member review panel will select the best of the group for review by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. They will choose the winner and arrange to appear for a guest lecture in the class of the winning team during the first two weeks of December 2004. For details see: http://www.aw-bc.com/dtuicontest/ All inquiries go to [log in to unmask]