CHI 2003

The Web has become an integral part of our world - yet only a small portion of Web sites are really usable. CHI 2003 present an opportunity for you to explore and exchange ideas with many of the premier designers and researchers of the Web. This year's conference offers 36 full and half-day tutorials. A small sample of this year's tutorial presentations concering the Web include:

• Jared Spool, founder of User Interface Engineering, and Christine Perfetti will present factors that affect user experience with Web sites Web Sites that Work: Designing with Your Eyes Open. Jared and Christine will also provide ground-breaking new updates concerning usable Web sites in Web-Site Usability: The Big Picture 2003.

• Researchers from Google Inc. will present issues in designing Web search interfaces in Web Search Engines: Algorithms and User Interfaces

• BJ Fogg from Stanford University will present How To Motivate & Persuade Users: Influence in Everyday HCI.

• Paul Whitmore of E*Trade Financial will review the research on judgement and decision-making and discuss its relevance to interaction design User Bias and Judgment: The Subjective Side of Decision-Making.

• Steven Pemberton, chair of the HTML and Forms Working group, will present an updated version of the popular hands-on tutorial on using style sheets to structure Web pages for usability and accessibility in Styling the New Web: Web Usability with Style Sheets.

• Alistair Sutcliffe and Leon Watts from the UK will present guidelines and psychological principals for multimedia user interface design in Multimedia Design for the Web.

Consult the Tutorials Schedule for a complete list of offerings.

CHI 2003 is the premier worldwide forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of how people interact with computers. On April 5-10 over 2000 researchers, practitioners, educators, and students will meet from over 45 countries in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA to explore the new horizons of human-computer interaction. This year's conference features six days of world-class presentations including 36 tutorials, plenary speakers, dynamic panels, paper sessions and more. To see the complete conference offering, go directly to the CHI 2003 Advance Program

Participation in CHI 2003 is open to all with an interest in Human-Computer Interaction. Register before March 20th, 2003 and you can really save on your fee.

The anchor's up, and it's time to come aboard CHI 2003 and help us steer a course... bring distant shores into view... chart new routes to new destinations. Explore new design horizons at CHI 2003, the premier international forum for the exchange of the latest information on all aspects of Human-Computer Interaction. Plan to attend CHI 2003.

CHI 2003 is sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction ACM SIGCHI, In addition to ACM, various organizations support CHI 2003. Champion sponsors include: Diamond Bullet Design, Google, Microsoft, Unisys and Yahoo! Contributing sponsors include: eLearn magazine, IBM, Intel Research Menlo Technology Group, Nokia, OSDN Slashdot, Sun Microsystems and User Interface Engineering.

The annual CHI conference attracts a lot of attention from the media. A number of articles about the conference and the work presented there are written each year. Some interesting articles include:

ComputerWorld:

• Spreading the Word on XHTML
• XHTML
• The Interface Revolutionary
• Know Who You Know

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

• Taming the Digital Beast
• Ubiquitous Chips
• Interactive Barney: Good or Evil?
• Bob is Dead
• I say it's Spinach

Electronic Engineering Times (EETimes):

• Tomorrow's computers will let the dead speak, panelists say
• Designers learn a thing or two from Barney

Forbes

• Banks that chat, and other irrelevancies

San Jose Mercury News:

• Designers Adapting Computers to Human Behavior

Scientific American:

• Taking Computers to Task

USA Today:

• Conference tackles ease-of-use issues
• Anthropologists adapt technology to world's cultures

Explore the New Horizons - Plan to Attend CHI 2003.