Publications Board

Current Members
Past Members & Advisors
Initiatives
CHI Letters

Current Members

The SIGCHI Executive Committee in the process of appointing a Publications Board that will oversee several new initiatives, described below.

For more information, contact William Newman.

Past Members & Advisors

Dan Olsen - Founder, Past VC for Publications
Wendy Mackay - Past VC for Publications
Marilyn Salzman - Past VP for Publications
William Newman - Current VP for Publications

Stu Card (PARC)
Saul Greenberg (University of Calgary)
Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research)
Michael Muller (IBM)
Judy Olson (University of Michigan)
Peter Polson (University of Colorado)
George Robertson (Microsoft Research)
Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota)
Marian Williams (University of Massachusetts)

Initiatives

interactions Review (Fall 2003)

The interactions review was based on feedback from interviews and surveys of SIGCHI's membership editors, authors, and subscribers. It identified some of the strengths and weaknesses of the magazine, and offered potential next steps for interactions, SIGCHI, and the ACM. It was submitted to the SIGCHI EC in October 2003, and to the ACM Publications Board in November 2003. It is currently forming the basis for some innovations and process enhancements for the interactions magazine in 2004 and 2005.

Team Members: Susan Dray (co-lead), Marilyn Salzman (co-lead), Susan Harker, Arnie Lund, Gary Mardsen, Michael Muller

For more information, download our report http://sigchi.org/publications/interactionsreview.zip or contact Marilyn Salzman.

CHI Papers Support (in progress)

This team was set up in February 2004 by William Newman, primarily to ensure review-process continuity and evaluation. One of the team's main roles is to help the co-chairs for CHI Papers (and now also the co-chairs for CHI Notes) to define and implement their review processes. The co-chairs often face difficult decisions that require immediate action, and here the Support Team can offer advice and assistance, drawing on their own experience of co-chairing and/or meta-reviewing.

A second Support Team role is to help evaluate the process; team members observe the annual Papers committee meetings and follow up on difficult cases. One additional concern of the Support Team is reviewing policy. The CHI Papers Review Policy already sets out the main guiding principles for reviewing, but it needs regular revisions and extensions to cover emerging issues and to incorporate proven review practice.

Team Members: William Newman (lead), Stephen Brewster, Tom Erickson, Rob Jacob, Robin Jeffries, Wendy Kellogg, Monica Schraefel, Shumin Zhai

For more information, contact William Newman.

Publications Strategy(completed)

A team of leaders in the HCI field were brought together to assess how well our current publication venues (conference, CHI Letters, TOCHI, other journals, other serial publications) are meeting the needs of SIGCHI's researchers and the people who consume that research, identifying gaps/needs, and developing some strategies to address those gaps/needs.

Team Members: Robert Kraut (lead), Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, John Carroll, Gilbert Cockton, Jonathan Grudin, Wendy Kellogg, Dan Olsen.

For more information, contact Robert Kraut.

CHI Letters

In the past the Publications Board has overseen CHI Letters, an edited collection of the very best proceedings from SIGCHI-sponsored conferences from 1999 to 2004.