Minutes of First Steering Committee Meeting 12/11/95
Table of Contents
Those in attendance:
- Craig Oshima:
Metatech Corp.
(Experimental Psychology)
- Kevin De Laere:
CompuServe
(Social Psychology/Human Factors)
- David Ranson:
Cognitive Engineering
(Representing Automation Activity)
- John Boyd:
CIS Dept.
(Perlman)
- Susan Roth:
OSU Assoc. Prof in I.D.
(interface design & visual communication)
- Lorraine Normore:
Chemical Abstracts
(Experimental Psychology/Lib. Science)
- Russ Branagan:
Branagan Ergonomic Corp.
(HCI, Experimental Psychology)
First orders of business are:
- We need to figure out what our relationship is to the local societies.
- Society of Technical Communicators
- ACM
- Digital Designers Group
- Multimedia Group
- HFES
- American Society for Information Science (library science)--a SIG
- What we want to do about a program.
The possible scope of the organization as well as industrial confidentiality
were two topics discussed at length.
POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES AND CONCERNS FOR BUCK-CHI
- Work for officers:
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this is an issue to try to keep down.
Supplement E-mail list with phone calls.
- Sharing concerns and developing a sense of community
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- Data on ongoing movements in the academic community:
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research programs, cognitive modeling, data modeling.
- There are a lot of visiting faculty:
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group could help advertise it.
- Student interest?
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Yes, in ISE. Perhaps if you include HTML issues.
- From Dayton:
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more student interest.
- Job Bank:
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would be a great way to get student interest.
- Speakers?
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Paying for them is expensive--usually West coast.
Not too many locally.
There is a fund one can get from CHI.
Must have a plan.
Five hundred dollars will not go far.
We could charge members for a special event.
- Round tables, sight tours:
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OCLC, Nationwide
- Presentations by members
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research, current methods, etc.
- Poster sessions, design presentations
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A discussion of possible dues seemed to point in the direction of 20-30 dollars.
($15-20, as I recall -- S. Roth)
One possibility for starting off some of the first full meetings would be to
conduct them around certain topics of interest (i.e., Web).
The relative value of promoting on-line activities was discussed.
It was concluded that the top priority for a local SIGCHI
would be to promote professional networking and group idea exchange.
- Mailing List
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Another conclusion that was reached was committee support for a
mailing list.
John Boyd and David Ranson have volunteered their efforts.
- Member Database/Directory
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Kevin De Laere and David Ranson have agreed to build a member
database/directory.
- Official Chapter
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Craig Oshima has agreed to head up the administrative work for becoming a
recognized SIGCHI.
- Administrative Details
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Russ Branagan will take care of administrative details.
We have set up the next meeting after the holidays --
believe it was scheduled for Jan. 8th (Monday) at CAS
-- S. Roth