HCI
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Monday, February 15th, 2010I’ve had the same joke conversation with people twice now: “How did we ever get around before Google/iPhones?” I know that they’re kidding, and yet I can’t help myself but answer “Maps! We had maps, guys. Remember those? They were great.”
OK, so I admit to having a soft spot for maps. I drive André crazy […]
Graphics Interface 2010
Friday, September 11th, 2009I am honoured to announce that I am going to be the Program Chair in HCI for Graphics Interface 2010, which will be held next May in Ottawa. The website isn’t up yet for next year’s conference, but you can check past conferences at the general Graphics Interface website.
This is the first time ever I’m […]
HCIR2009
Monday, July 13th, 2009Here’s a workshop I wasn’t aware of on a relatively new subject area in HCI: the Third Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. which will be held on the 23rd of October this year in Washington, DC.
When we held the first HCIR workshop in 2007, the idea of uniting the fields of Human-Computer […]
Scientometric analysis of the CHI proceedings
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Christoph Bartneck and Jun Hu presented a paper at CHI 2009 on who has been participating at CHI:
The CHI conference has grown rapidly over the last 26 years. We present a quantitative analysis on the countries and organizations that contribute to its success. Only 7.8 percent of the countries are responsible for 80 percent of […]
A short history of HCI
Monday, April 6th, 2009If you’re interested in the history of human-computer interaction, John M. Carroll has published an article on this very subject over at Interaction-Design.org:
Human-computer interaction (HCI) is an area of research and practice that emerged in the early 1980s, initially as a specialty area in computer science. HCI has expanded rapidly and steadily for three decades, […]
INTERACT 2009
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008The twelth International IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction will be held August 24-28 in Uppsala, Sweden.
The theme of the INTERACT 2009 conference, Research and Practice, addresses the issue of continuity between theory and practice in Human-Computer research. The main focus is on research that is reflected in real-world applications. INTERACT 2009 is an international conference […]
Deadlines and annoying stuff
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008I seem to be running from one deadline to another these days. I finally finished the CHI reviews this morning - they were due for the end of this week, I believe. Now it’s on to the next deadline. Daniel and I are going to submit a chapter idea to these folks. The 2-3 page […]
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