[Sighci-l] HCI Help Request

[Carol Hutchins]

I second the suggestion of drawing from some participants in CHI.
In addition to the large meeting there are smaller ones such as UIST.


At 12:47 PM 5/2/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Joette,
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>I am new in this field and don't have anything specific to work on at this 
>moment in term of HCI, but I hope this might give us some idea:
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>- ACM just finished their SIGCHI conference last week 
>(<http://www.acm.org/chi2002/>http://www.acm.org/chi2002/) and they have 
>interesting topics there.  We can also gain quite a lot of information 
>from their "community place" 
>(<http://www.chiplace.org>http://www.chiplace.org).
>
>- Katherine Everitt and Scott Lederer from UC Berkley conducted a 
>usability comparison between StarOffice Writer 5.2 and MS Word 2000 
>(<http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is271/f01/projects/WordStar/finalReport.html>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is271/f01/projects/WordStar/finalReport.html)
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>- Susanne Eklund, Micahl Feldman, and Mary Trombley, also from UC Berkely, 
>conducted another usability comparison between StarOffice Calc and MS 
>Excel 
>(<http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is271/f01/projects/StarCalc/>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is271/f01/projects/StarCalc/)
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>- An open panel discussions between HCI practitioners and end users?
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>- Collaboration in sponsoring a panel program with other HCI-related SIGs 
>such as SIG-IA? (I don't know whether this has been done in previous time)
>
>
>ranti.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joette Stefl-Mabry [mailto:jstefl at optonline.net]
>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:49 PM
>To: sighci-l at asis.org
>Subject: [Sighci-l] HCI Help Request
>
>We are attempting to make HCI a dynamic and exciting SIG, so this is an 
>earnest plea to all members of the SIG to help us accomplish this goal. 
>Assuming that we all joined SIGHCI because we are interested in this 
>important topic, we would like to hear from you about what you are working 
>on.  Do you have any accomplishments or current research that you would 
>like to openly share on the list serve? Please do!
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>Also, we would like to hear any ideas you might have for upcoming panels 
>(especially at the annual conferences), or activities you would like to 
>undertake through the SIG.
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>In November, at the annual conference, would you like us to plan some 
>activities just for SIG/HCI members?
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>We're all in this together and we need your help in reviving 
>SIGHCI.  Please help.
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>We're looking forward to hearing from you,
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>Barbara Lynch and Joette Stefl-Mabry