CHI 99 Press Releases

Press Releases:

Jakob Nielsen, most websites failing

Cyberspace Civil Wars - censorship and the web

How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying

Digital Library or Digital Store?

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Computer Controlled Kids Toys

PALO ALTO, Calif -- (April 7, 1999) "A few years ago Hollywood and the music industry discovered the Internet and realized, much to their horror, that the technology now exists to make arbitrary numbers of perfect copies of a digitized object," according to Barbara Simons, President of ACM and invited speaker at the CHI 99 Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. As a result, we have seen an explosion of legislative and treaty proposals in the United States and around the world.

The manner in which technology is implemented and the legislation that is passed will impact the rights and responsibilities of creators and users of intellectual property. Simons will raise, and attempt to answer significant questions in this area: How will copyright be impacted? What will happen to user rights of fair use and first sale? Are we moving from copyright protection of books and magazines on the net to contract law, and if so, what are the potential repercussions? Simons will present these issues at the upcoming CHI 99 Conference on Computer-Human Interaction.

CHI is the premier worldwide forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of how people interact with computers. The annual conference on human factors in computing systems features a full program of presentations, tutorials and vendor exhibits. Approximately 2500 professionals from over 35 countries will examine the future of human-computer interaction from 15-20 May in Pittsburgh, PA at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center at CHI 99.

CHI conferences are sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM)'s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). The CHI conference is traditionally supported by industry organizations. The CHI 99 champion sponsors include: Microsoft, Motorola, National Science Foundation, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo! Inc.

For more information, contact the CHI 99 Conference office at +1 410 263 5382, send e-mail to CHI99-help@acm.org or look at the CHI 99 Web site at: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi99