CHI 2005

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As technology becomes pervasive in our environment, professionals in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) have the opportunity to enhance the quality of life through innovative design and application of technologies. Learn how to influence the future directions of HCI through a diverse program in which participants learn from and interact with the thinkers behind the solutions to today's difficult design problems.

- Learn about the emerging field of Human-Robot Interaction: Design and Evaluation from Jean Scholtz and Holly Yanco.

- Learn how to successfully design and improve useful and useable interactive systems in A Practical Approach to Interactive System Design from Tom Hewett and Michael Atwood of Drexel University.

- Learn about Usability Design — Integrating User-Centered Systems Design in the Systems Development Process from Swedish colleagues Jan Gulliksen and Bengt Göransson.

This year's conference features 16 tutorials presenting the latest in usability, design and technology along with plenary sessions and a full technical program. Plenary speakers include Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, and Michel Waisvisz, Director of STEIM (STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music). Participation in CHI 2005 is open to all with an interest in Human-Computer Interaction. Join more than 2000 professionals from over 40 countries at CHI 2005 for the premier worldwide forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of how people interact with computers.

CHI 2005 offers a chance to debate, discuss and design the future of human-computer interaction with international colleagues from academia and industry.

Mark your calendar and register by 14 March and really save on your fees.

CHI 2005 is sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). In addition to ACM, various organizations sponsor CHI 2005. Champion Sponsors include: America Online, Microsoft, OSTG, SAP AG, Tektronix and Yahoo!, Inc. Contributing Sponsors include: eLearn Magazine, Intel, Pitney Bowes, and Sun Microsystems.

The annual CHI conference attracts a lot of attention from the media. A number of articles about the conference and the work presented there are written each year. Some interesting articles include:

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Taming the Digital Beast
• Ubiquitous Chips
• Interactive Barney: Good or Evil?
• Bob is Dead
• I say it's Spinach
• Electronic Engineering Times (EETimes): Tomorrow's computers will let the dead speak, panelists say
• Designers learn a thing or two from Barney
• USA Today, April 23, 1998: Conference tackles ease-of-use issues
• USA Today, May 25, 1999: Anthropologists adapt technology to world's cultures
• Forbes: Banks that Chat and Other Irrelevancies (available for fee)
  
• Scientific American: Taking Computers to Task (available for fee)
  
• San Jose Mercury News: Designers Adapting Computers to Human Behavior (available for fee)

Join researchers, practitioners, educators, and students from around the world to meet at the CHI 2005 Conference.

See you in Portland, Oregon.