Second Call for Participation in a Columbus Local SIGCHI Chapter
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ACM SIGCHI is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction. They sponsor the annual CHI conference
on Human Factors in Computing System, and have co-sponsored conferences
on CSCW, Hypertext, and UIST (UI Software and Technology).
Last year was the first year of publication of ACM Transactions on CHI,
and "interactions" magazine.
I spent a year in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has
a very active local SIGCHI chapter. I went to about six monthly
meetings, and the average attendance was 300-400 people.
The meetings served as a focal point for HCI and UI activities.
The local (Central Ohio) Human Factors (and Ergonomics) Society
chapter is the closest thing we have to cover interest in HCI
issues, but it is not a very active organization.
When CO-HFS was formed, there was a debate about whether an HFS or
SIGCHI chapter should be formed, and only the HFS chapter was formed.
I think it is time again to discuss the possibility of forming a
Columbus SIGCHI chapter. When I tried this last year, only ten
people responded, but now there are many more HCI types in Columbus.
This message is meant to gauge initial interest only and to form a
mailing list. If there is adequate interest, then there will be
some followup to the list to have an organizational meeting.
Keith Instone at Bowling Green has suggested the name BUCKCHI,
although we would of course be free to choose another name.
There are three steps to forming a chapter.
- A group of at least 10 interested individuals,
willing to carry out the mission of the chapter,
must petition the ACM Local Activities Board
for a charter. These ten people must be ACM members
or members of an ACM Special Interest Group (SIG).
- The group must identify three chapter officers.
The officers are required to be ACM members.
- The group must submit a set of bylaws under which
the chapter will operate. A template set of bylaws
are provided by the ACM.
We will be looking for volunteers to help in a variety of ways:
- writing the petition
- serving as initial officers
- writing the bylaws
As I am the current SIGCHI Vice-Chair for publications,
I will not be volunteering for any of these key positions,
however I will try to help facilitate
as aspects of the formation of the Local SIG.
Please respond to this mail. If you do not, you will
be dropped form the list of people who will be contacted.
You can respond via email (strongly preferred) or via
other forms to the address below. Respond to:
- Get added to the list of interested people
(note that saying you are interested does
not imply any level of effort on your part;
it is fine if you simply are interested in
attending meetings and other events).
- Get added to the list of potential volunteers
(we will need at least three serious volunteers).
- Suggest other people (names, addresses, email)
who might be interested in a local SIGCHI Chapter.
Please check the list below for names I already have.
If you can supply some missing information, or can
correct some information, please feel free to help.
I am keeping a WWW page for the chapter at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~perlman/BUCKCHI/index.html
A list of people I have gathered from a variety of sources is at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~perlman/BUCKCHI/people.html.
If you know of someone who is not on this
list who might be interested, please send me information
on them. Please also send corrections to me.
Address
Gary Perlman
Department of Computer & Information Science
395 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Avenue
Ohio State University,
Columbus,
Ohio
43210 USA
perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~perlman
+1-614-292-2566 (voice) +1-614-292-2911 (fax)