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Someone interested in HCI reads the SIGCHI Bulletin, but apparently only someone involved in SIGCHI knows how to pronounce it, and that's why we chose Archive as the title for this issue, so that everyone would know. CHI is pronounced like the chi in archive.
This issue marks the start of ACM's 50th Anniversary year, and to celebrate the start of the year this issue features a look back at the history of SIGCHI. Ever wondered how come there have been 27 volumes of the SIGCHI Bulletin, while HCI didn't even come into existence before 1980? Read on....
There are many activities within SIGCHI, and so for the retrospective we contacted many people who are or have been involved with SIGCHI to ask them how it was, and what their experience was. One remarkable constant through nearly all the comments is that they say that working in SIGCHI is great fun. Hopefully these comments will inspire future generations of volunteers to come forward and join in that fun!
Also in the theme of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of ACM, this month the SIGCHI Bulletin goes online. The paper version is still the `lead' version, but the plan is to simultaneously publish the electronic and paper versions, with both versions carrying essentially the same content (though the electronic version is in colour).
You can find the online Bulletin at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin/ (where else?) At any time, the current issue is only accessible for SIGCHI members, so have your membership number at the ready the first time you go along; you will then be able to choose a user name and password for yourself.
The online Bulletin is a two year experiment. SIGCHI and ACM are interested to see what if any effect it has on membership, and any other reverberations it has.
Of course, in designing the online Bulletin, we have done our best to make it as usable (and readable) as possible within the constraints that we have and that the medium offers. This included doing task and requirements analysis, creating a prototype, doing usability testing (in the small), and designing iteratively.
Considering our field, I have no doubt that many people will have comments on the structure and form, and frankly it would be disappointing if they didn't. So please don't hesitate to get in contact and let us know what you think and where it could be improved.
And if there are people out there who would like to help with the production of either the digital or analogue Bulletin, please don't hesitate to get in touch!
In the last issue the excellent photos that accompanied the article "The Rocky Mountain Climbing Challenge" in the Local SIGs column were by Anne Patkau.
Steven Pemberton
Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven
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