New Challenges for
SIGCHI and ACM Members

ACM SIGCHI
Special Interest Group on
Computer-Human Interaction		 SIGCHI

The devasting attacks of 11 September 2001 have altered the agenda for the science research community. Many organizations have called meetings to consider new needs, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, whose 27th Annual Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy is devoted to: "Science and Technology in a Vulnerable World: Rethinking Our Roles" www.aaas.org/spp/colloquium (11-12 April 2002, Washington, DC, USA).

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is also considering new directions and the Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI) will devote several sessions to these themes at their annual CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2002 (20-25 April 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA).

To encourage discussion and raise awareness, SIGCHI members have generated four web resource pages with over 100 links:

Please visit these web pages and contribute additional sources of information for others to learn from by clicking on Suggest-a-Link.

SIGCHI members are uniquely positioned to contribute to the design of future socio-technical systems that could reduce future threats, enable emergency services to cope more effectively, and support the communities that suffer from terror attacks and other disasters. SIGCHI members understand how to analyze user needs, design appropriate tasks, implement effective systems, and help users refine them over time.

Further Reading: The February 2002 Communications of the ACM has a Viewpoint article by Ben Shneiderman, "ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges" that discusses these four themes. HTML or PDF in ACM Digital Library

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