A two-day Research Symposium is held prior to the official CHI '95
conference, Saturday and Sunday May 6-7, 1995. The Symposium is for active
researchers in Human-Computer Interaction. The intent of the Symposium is to
provide an interactive forum to promote and enhance scientific discussions of
developing research issues. The Research Symposium is designed to complement
other parts of the CHI '95 Conference, e.g., the papers program, design
briefings, demonstrations, videos, panels, posters, and exhibits.
Those attending the Symposium are given the opportunity to enter into
extensive dialogue with a community of peers. The Symposium provides both an
opportunity for feedback on one's research ideas, as well as a chance to
learn about the variety of perspectives present in the international research
community. The Symposium is designed to stress research and interaction
among the attendees, and to promote understanding, asking of questions,
dialogue between fellow researchers, and reflection on methods and results,
etc.
To enhance this, the Symposium alternates between plenary sessions with
presentation of interesting, enlightening, even provoking research issues,
follow-up discussions and smaller focused discussion groups, short talk
presentations, and intense dialogue among participants. Organization of the
talk sessions is a result of the general topics addressed by submissions.
Submissions may address any HCI topic of an attendee's choosing, but the
organizing topics are:
- DESIGNING FOR DIVERSITY
- PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
- HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE FRONTIERS
- METHODOLOGIES TO COPE WITH COMPLEXITY
- UNDERSTANDING AND MODELLING CREATIVE PROCESSES
- ENHANCING INTERACTION
- ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
- LEARNING
- VISUALIZATION, GRAPHICS DESIGN, AND AESTHETICS
- MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
- COMMUNICATION, COOPERATION, AND THE INTERNET
Organizing Committee:
- Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
- Mike Byrne, Georgia Tech, USA
- Alan Dix, University of Huddersfield, UK
- Peter Gorny, Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
- Francesmary Modugno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Janni Nielsen (Co-chair), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Marilyn Panayi, MimeTec, London, UK
- David M. Roy, City University, London, UK
- Dag Svanes, University of Trondheim, Norway
- Leon Watts, University of York, UK
- Cathleen Wharton (Co-chair), U S WEST Technologies, USA
