Connect at CHI2004

Do you want to know what it will be like to interact with computers 5, 10 or even 15 years from now? If so, come to CHI2004 in Vienna, Austria to CONNECT with the most prominent leaders, researchers and designers creating the future of technology. Join researchers and practitioners from companies like Sony, Microsoft, Nokia and SAP with students and educators from institutions like Aarhus, Cambridge and Carnegie Mellon to meet at CHI2004 to explore and shape the future of human-computer interaction. CHI2004 presents 31 Tutorials on classic and emerging topics in usability, design and technology. A sampling of this year's program includes:

The CHI2004 technical program focuses on Ambient Intelligence, Games, Mobile Communications, Robotics & Transport and European HCI Research. Keynote presentations are given by Jun Rekimoto of Sony and Tim Brown of IDEO, individuals whose impact can be seen, felt and heard in the products around you. Connect, engage, and debate with the authors and presenters at dynamic panels, demonstrations, paper sessions and more.

See presentation and schedule details at the CHI2004 Technical Program. You can also explore the influence of human-computer interaction on industrial design by participating in the CHI2004/ICSID Forum.

Participation in CHI2004 is open to all with an interest in Human-Computer Interaction. Join more than 2000 professionals from over 35 countries at CHI2004 for the premier worldwide forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of how people interact with computers.

CHI2004 is sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). In addition to ACM, various organizations sponsor CHI2004. Champion Sponsors include: Google, Microsoft, OSDN Slashdot, SAP, Unisys, and Yahoo! Inc. Contributing Sponsors include: Intel, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and eLearn Magazine.

The annual CHI conference attracts a lot of attention from the media. A number of articles about the conference and the work presented there are written each year. Some interesting articles include:

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Taming the Digital Beast
• Ubiquitous Chips
• Interactive Barney: Good or Evil?
• Bob is Dead
• I say it's Spinach
• Electronic Engineering Times (EETimes): Tomorrow's computers will let the dead speak, panelists say
• Designers learn a thing or two from Barney
• USA Today:Conference tackles ease-of-use issues
• Anthropologists adapt technology to world's cultures
• Forbes: Banks that Chat and Other Irrelevancies (available for fee)
  
• Scientific American: Taking Computers to Task (available for fee)
  
• San Jose Mercury News: Designers Adapting Computers to Human Behavior (available for fee)

On 24-29 April 2004 researchers, practitioners, educators, and students from around the world will meet in Austria at the CHI2004 Conference.

CONNECT and Create the Future - Attend CHI2004