Technical Program Overview

Demonstrations
Demonstrations offer an opportunity to show an innovative interface concept, HCI system, technique, or methodology. Attendees are able to view systems in action and discuss them with the people who created them.

New! Design Expo
A new event for CHI 2001, the Design Expo is a unique opportunity for designers to present new ideas and innovations to the CHI community. Designs will be presented in a moderator-discussant format. Authors will be available for questions.

New! Interactive Video Posters
This new venue will enable highly interactive exchanges of ideas and breakthroughs in the community because it combines the attributes of an interactive poster presentation with a video presentation.

Panels
Panels stimulate thought and discussion about ideas and issues of interest to the human-computer interaction community. Panels typically focus on controversial or emerging issues, allowing speakers and the audience to explore, debate, and reflect on these issues.

Papers
Papers present significant contributions by researchers and practitioners to the HCI field, capable of influencing the design lifecycle of current and future interactive systems. Papers are highly refereed and are published in the archival CHI Conference Proceedings and as an issue of CHI Letters.

Plenary Sessions
Plenary sessions are general sessions that open and close the conference. The key event of the session is an invited presentation by a prominent person that supports the conference theme and offers a challenge to people interested in HCI.

Short Talks and Interactive Posters
Short Talks and Interactive Posters are particularly suitable for exciting new findings, ongoing work that has demonstrated special promise, preliminary results, timely work still in a state to be influenced, or tightly argued essays or opinion pieces. Posters are visual presentations of work that are displayed throughout the conference. Short Talks are presented in traditional technical sessions.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) enable conference attendees who share a common interest to meet informally for 90 minutes of discussion in the conference. They differ from workshops in that there is no pre-event selection of participants and all attendees may participate.

Student Posters
The Student Posters program offers a unique opportunity for students to present their work at CHI and to receive encouragement in their development as HCI professionals. Student posters are displayed during the conference and provide an excellent opportunity to discuss late-breaking and ongoing work in an informal setting.