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More than two years before a CHI conference they're already having the first planning meetings. The budget has to be created, the conference committee formed, contractors selected, sponsors found, the call has to be written, designed and printed, the web site created and kept up-to-date, a team of reviewers has to be selected, hundreds of submissions sorted, sent out to reviewers, reviews sorted, acceptances agreed on, conference sessions designed, advance program written, designed, printed, posted to thousands of addresses, audio-visual and computer requirements have to be organised, thousands of registrations have to be dealt with, hotels, food, volunteers, and in a week, in an explosion of activity, and many parallel activities, it's all over. Then the main task left is dealing with all the finances. All this, and more. And by then, the next CHI is already well under way in the process. Hundreds of people have been involved -- committee, contractors, reviewers, student volunteers.
By the time you read this, the CHI 96 Proceedings should be online at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96, and the CHI 97 Advance Program will be due online in December , at -- guess where -- http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97, so keep a watch out there.
Many activities happen at a CHI conference that only briefly get mentioned in the Proceedings or related conference publications. Important examples are the Workshops. The October issue of the Bulletin is the place where many of these other activities get reported. You'll find many of the Workshops here, as well as a report on the Doctoral Consortium and a Special Interest Group for students, and Allison Druin reports on what happened at CHIkids.
Talk about changing the guard! This issue, as announced last time, we have three new column editors: Richard Anderson, Local SIGs, Harry Blanchard, Standards, and Andrew Sears, Education. Welcome all! And we bid farewell to Maria Wadlow, who was the founding editor of the Visual Interaction Design Column. She's done great work these last three years: thank you Maria! And welcome Frank Marchak and Shannon Ford who will be replacing her.
Barely an issue seems to pass without the announcement of a new SIGCHI Local SIG. This issue we welcome Toulouse, France to the fold. The SIG is called "IHM-Toulouse" (IHM stands for Interaction Homme-Machine in French). The officers of are: Marie-France Barthet (Chair), Guy Boy (Secretary) and Stéphane Chatty (Treasurer). Contact guy_boy.chi@xerox.com
The activities of IHM-Toulouse will result from a multi-disciplinary group of people coming from academia, government and industry, and the SIG will work closely with the recently created HCI society "Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine" (AFIHM).
Every now and then I get sent material for the SIGCHI Bulletin that arrives too late: by the time it would appear it would be out of date.
If you would like a reminder one month before every issue deadline, please drop me a note, and I will add you to the list.
The cover photo shows the opening plenary speaker at CHI 96, Herb Clark.
Steven Pemberton
Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven
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