About CHI '95

Denver, Colorado, USA

May 7-11, 1995

A mosaic is a collection of different shapes, colors, and materials that are arranged to form a larger picture. Mosaics are an integral part of many of the everyday structures with which we live. They are created on ceilings, walls, floors, roofs, and walks, and are found in every imaginable situation from shrines and fountains to subways and baths. They often combine beauty with utility, and mix decoration with information. Computing technology should someday serve in the same ubiquitous, useful, and aesthetic ways.

The many pieces of the human-computer interaction community come together every year to form an image of the field at the annual CHI conference. The creativity that pervades our field is enhanced by the variety of perspectives, voices, faces, and ideas on display at this conference. Like a well-designed mosaic, the success of our field expands beyond its enjoyable qualities into how well it helps people to think, play, work, communicate, and otherwise get along in the world that we shape with our thoughts and designs.

We invite you to be one of the components of the CHI '95 Mosaic of Creativity. At CHI '95 we will use new shapes, colors, and materials to create an expanded image of our conference and our field. We will fit some different pieces into the picture of how the conference looks and feels. We invite you to contribute your new pieces to the conference. We invite original creations in any area of human-computer interaction. We especially welcome ideas and systems that create opportunities for broadening the usefulness of information technologies and for enhancing creativity by combining different ideas, technologies, methods, and perspectives.

Your contribution makes this mosaic more beautiful and effective. Be part of the mosaic!

Terry Roberts and Scott Robertson
CHI '95 Conference Co-Chairs

Keith Instone // instone@acm.org // 94-12-06