[IxDA Discuss] CHI2008 Call for Content and Reviewers

[Jonathan Arnowitz]

HI Will,

Your first two points are a bit contradictory: Microsoft is not academia.
But I agree your perception of CHI is the more common one; however, also as
the co-Chair of the design track I would say your thinking of the conference
is a bit dated. (Look at CHI2007 web site and also CHI2008 and you will see
a significant dedication to practitioner as well as academic content). In
the past few years, there has been an extra-ordinary growth in
practitioner-oriented content in the conference along side the academic
research. Indeed, sending this Call for Participation/Volunteer to this
group is part of the ongoing efforts to include more practitioner content
and more practitioner reviewers.

CHI also is not a design conference, but rather an HCI conference with a
design/practioner component. In this way it is a unique conference that
mixes both research and design. For more practitioner oriented conferences
there are now many to choose from (DUX, IA Summit, UPA and of course now
IxDA's own conference this February). However as a place to meet and
exchange ideas with people all over the HCI map, CHI remains the place to be
(mind you being in Florence helps).

--Jonathan

On 8/3/07, W Evans <wkevans4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -------------------------------------
> 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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Jonathan Arnowitz
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