This week in Austin Texas USA took place the 2012 ACM CHI conference. Klewel is proud to be the webcasting partner of SIG (special interest group) CHI (computer human interaction). The presentations are available through the ACM Digital Library for ACM members only. The past 5 annual conferences have been webcasted by Klewel. The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. CHI 2012 focuses on the centrality of experience from the models, theories and practical insights we need to understand and design for user experience to experiencing innovation through hands-on interactivity. The conference gathered 2555 attendees. Two keynote speakers from YouTube and MIT Media Lab presented their work.
Featuring over 900 works, the CHI conference is the premier worldwide forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of human-computer interaction. Typically the works presented address the concerns of design, engineering, management and user experience professionals. This year’s conference also features works that focus on: Digital Arts, Games and Entertainment, Human-Computer Interaction for Kids, Health and Sustainability. After two days of intimate pre-conference workshops, the main conference includes panel discussions, courses that provide leading-edge HCI knowledge, paper sessions, case studies, works-in-progress, student competitions (involving design, research and games), interactive demonstrations, special interest groups, and a Tuesday evening video night (popcorn included).
Video report:
Description of some projects presented at CHI 2012 starting at 1:22s
Links, CHI 2012 reports:
- Twitter account of the CHI2012 technical program chair
- ACM User Conference Seeks the Magic in User Interfaces #chi2012
- ACM CHI 2012: more search could be crowdsourced
- G+: coverage of the CHI2012 conference points to the direction of future for HCI and user interfaces.
- “Technical program chair and Google research scientist Ed Chi said that a decade ago it was hard for people to imagine that we’d be using touchscreen smartphones and tablets. Now those devices are commonplace.”
- French participation at this conference
Quotes, tweets:
- Shaun Kane @shaunkane #chi2012 plenary talk has great coverage of prior work… Nyan Cat, Honey Badger et al., …
- nicolasnova @nicolasnova RT @rrostt “Algorithms don’t have a very good sense of humour” #chi2012
- Paul Dourish @dourish noticing at #chi2012 that my enjoyment of talks is inversely proportional to occurences of the word “users.” i’d rather hear about people.
