Connect at CHI2004

In the new economy of online commerce and ubiquitous computing, the fate of many companies will depend on a factor most have little experience with usability and interaction design. The ability to CONNECT through human-computer interaction is vital for success in this economy. Usability and interaction design are now core competencies in the new networked information economy. The ability to CONNECT in this area will determine whether companies thrive, merely survive, or disappear.

CHI2004 presents an opportunity for you to CONNECT and interact with many of the premier designers and researchers of interactive technologies. This year's conference offers 31 full and half-day tutorials focused on ways to improve interaction.

• Augmented Reality (AR) involves the overlay of virtual images on the real world. An Introduction to Augmented Reality Research presents how to develop effective AR interfaces, techniques for interface evaluation and the tools necessary for application development.
• Learn theoretical and practical aspects of how people remember information and solve problems. Use this information to gain insights about designing for the human mind in Dr. Tom Hewett's Cognitive Factors in Design: Basic Phenomena in Human Memory and Problem Solving.
• Learn how to design a telephone speech application along with techniques for analyzing existing applications and tools for effective speech usability testing in Designing Usable Telephone Speech Interfaces.
• Learn about emerging changes in the way people interact with machines, and understand current concepts in interaction in Dr. Guy Boy's Design of highly automated domain-specific systems.
• Learn how to build effective software systems that form the basis for successful cross-product User Interface design in Common Look & Feel: Cross-Product UI Design for Web Sites and Applications.

Consult the Tutorial Schedule for the complete list of offerings.

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