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CHI 97 Overview

CHI 97 Overview

Looking to the Future: An Invitation from the Conference Chairs

 As we come to the end of ACM's 50th anniversary year, SIGCHI joins ACM in looking to the future -- the next 50 years of computing.

CHI 97, "Looking to the Future", poses the questions: What will user interfaces and the field of human-computer interaction be like 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years from now? How will we get there? What are the ramifications and challenges facing us? How can industry, the research community and educators work together to provide for the needs of today and the future?

Every year, CHI has an exciting program of tutorials, workshops, papers, design briefings, videos, demonstrations, SIGs, exhibits and much more. This year is no exception. Even more important, CHI has a great group of people who come to hear and discuss current issues.

Atlanta underwent a major renovation in 1996 in preparation for the Olympics, and we are fortunate in being among the first to reap the benefits of the city's renewal.

So, if you have never been to CHI before, we hope you will join us this year and experience the excitement! If you have been before, then join us again for what promises to be a great conference!

Alan Edwards and Steven Pemberton
Conference Co-Chairs
chi97-chairs@acm.org

The CHI 97 Technical Program: An Invitation from the Technical Program Chairs

Whether you are a practitioner, researcher, educator or student you will find events to stimulate, inform and engage you. Many presentations push the boundaries of HCI into novel topic areas, questioning our theories and practices, and importing new ones from other disciplines. An important goal for the CHI 97 technical program is to increase interactivity between particpants in the technical events. For example, we required panel submissions to have a more interactive flavor. This year you can: argue about what's hot and what's not in Web page design in `Web Interfaces Live'; consider the opinions of CHI kidsÑour users of the future; enjoy a spirited debate about intelligent software agents vs. direct manipulation; and participate in the `Great CHI 97 Browse-Off,' in which expert users compete in timed trials using different browsers.

We also have a very strong Demonstrations program and will be encouraging participatory follow-up sessions where you can meet the Demonstrations presenters and try out the systems yourself.

We have other innovations to the program as well. Look for Technical Notes: tightly written two-page papers of archival quality, which are integrated with the standard papers. For the first time the Formal Video will be included in everyone's registration bag. We will also have a wide-ranging set of late-breaking events (short talks, demos and posters). By delaying the submission deadline as late as possible, we hope these sessions will showcase recent work stimulating greater interactivity. The Interface Space -- our general meeting area -- is an important place to experience this increased interactivity.

The Development Consortium and expanded CHIkids program continue our steps in these directions. The Development Consortium is a pre-conference meeting of professionals from countries not normally represented at CHI conferences. This event will enable these participants to gain the maximum benefit from attending the conference.

Throughout the conference, we will also have invited speakers presenting their visions of the future on topics such as: users' work and the technology; new user populations; devices and displays; design and evaluation methodologies; teaching and learning about HCI; and contributing to the future of society.

And there's much, much more to enjoy. Come and share your perspectives, join us in shaping the future of HCI and extending its boundaries on the future.

Jenny Preece and Mary Beth Rosson
Technical Program Co-Chairs
chi97-tech-program@acm.org

Conference at a Glance

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Pre-Conference Events

These are events held Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the conference.

Tutorials

There are half-day and full-day courses designed for novice to experienced participants. They cover a wide range of topics from theory to practice.

The Development Consortium

The Development Consortium is a new event designed to bring HCI professionals from countries not normally represented at CHI to share their perspectives, make new contacts, and experience the technology and excitement of the CHI conference.

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is held on Sunday and Monday prior to the conference and provides an opportunity for doctoral students in the final stages of their research projects to interact with other students and experienced researchers.

Workshops

Workshops bring together people with a focused shared interest who wish to explore and develop their work collaboratively. Workshops last for one or two days.

Conference Events

Plenaries

The opening plenary speaker, Rick Prelinger, film archivist and analyst, will discuss past claims about the future and explore why some of these claims have been realized and some have not. How accurate have we been in predicting the present? In contrast, the closing plenary by Douglas Coupland, best-selling author of microserfs will focus on contemporary claims for the future: where are we going and what will we find when we get there?

Papers, Design Briefings and Technical Notes

Papers and Design Briefings are twenty-five minute presentations. Papers present high quality original research. Design Briefings are the same quality as papers but focus on interface designs with special emphasis on the design process that resulted in the conceptual issues embodied in the designs. Technical Notes are similar to Papers but focus on a small aspect of research and the presentations are ten minutes.

Demonstrations

Demonstrations enable participants to view systems in action and discuss them with the people who created them.

Organizational Overviews

Organizational Overviews provide briefings on the work of organizations engaged in HCI research and practice. Typically these presentations describe how an HCI group developed, and its key activities with particular emphasis on research and development.

Panels

Panels allow speakers and the audience to explore, debate and reflect upon controversial or emerging HCI issues.

Posters

Posters are on display in the Interface Space during the conference. We will highlight posters during the morning break on the second day of the conference, when poster authors will be available for interaction with delegates. Social Action Posters aim to identify socially important issues.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Special Interest Groups are meetings held during the conference to discuss a focused shared interest. They differ from workshops in that there is no pre-event selection and all attendees may participate.

Videos

The CHI 97 Video contains a showcase of innovative HCI design, methodology and interaction techniques that are shown and explained better through this medium than on paper. There is also a collection of video figures that illustrate topics discussed in the papers.

Late-Breaking Results and Informal Presentations

These can be short talks, demonstrations, interactive and social action posters. They are lightly refereed and enable presenters to bring new ideas and recent research for discussion at the conference. These sessions will be less formal than those containing material from the early submission categories.
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