[IxDA Discuss] CHI2008 Call for Content and Reviewers

[W Evans]

First - I love Florence.

Second - has anyone noticed in the list of people on the organizing
committee that the 2 conference chairs are Microsoft?

How do people feel about how heavily the conference organizing committee is
mostly (over 90%)  weighted towards academics, not practitioners....

I know there is always this interesting tension between thinkers and
workers, between theory and practice. Perhaps as a practitioner, I just wish
more praxis was represented on the committee.

Thoughts?

Am I being to sensitive? Have people who have attended CHI in the past felt
this way as well?

~~ will

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will evans
user experience practitioner (not theorist)


On 8/3/07, Jonathan Arnowitz <arnoland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
> art.science.balance
> April 5-10, 2008 in Florence, Italy
>
> SUBMIT YOUR CONTENT AND VOLUNTEER TO REVIEW!
>
> CHI 2008 can be only as good as the quality of content you submit and the
> reviews they get. We are looking for contributions from ALL our HCI
> communities, including Design, Education, Engineering, Management,
> Research,
> and Usability. Submissions to CHI fall into two general categories: HCI
> Archival content and Contemporary Trends. Archival content will be
> published
> in the CHI conference proceedings and the ACM Digital Library.
> Contemporary
> Trends will be published in the CHI Extended Abstracts.
>
> Please note the upcoming deadlines (details at
> http://www.chi2008.org/authors.html):
>
> HCI Archival content *** 19 Sept 2007 ***
>
> - Papers (10 page)
>
> - Notes (4 page)
>
> Contemporary Trends *** 3 Oct 2007 ***
>
> - Workshop position papers
>
> - Case Studies
> - Doctoral Consortium
> - Panels
> - Interactivity
>
>
>
> Contemporary Trends *** 8 Jan 2008 ***
>
> - Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
> - Work-in-Progress
> - alt.chi
>
> - Design Theatre
>
> - Design Community Events
>
> - Student Research Competition
>
> - Student Design Competition
>
>
>
> You can also ensure a great conference by volunteering to review
> submissions. Sign up to review at
> http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi<
> http://precisionconference.com/%7Esigchi>.
> Even
> if you have signed up or reviewed before please renew your agreement and
> update your information as soon as possible.
>
>
>
> The HCI community is counting on you: submit your work from both practice
> and research, help review, and join us in beautiful Florence, Italy, in
> 2008!
>
>
>
> Jonathan Arnowitz, Design Track Co-Chair
>
> http://www.chi2008.org
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