Founded in 1984, Interaction is a specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS). It provides an organisation for all those working on human-computer interaction - the analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of technologies for human use. For more information about the group, please view the about page.
AGM documentation
Agenda
1. Apologies
2. Reports
3. Election of Officers (Chair, Secretary, Treasurer)
4. AOCB
Reports
Chair: Russell Beale
Essentially – business as usual.
Firstly, thanks to Andy Dearden, who is stepping down from the Communications role – under his stewardship this has grown hugely, encompassing as it did internal, membership, and external comms, including the oversight of the teams that produce usabilitynews and interfaces, both significant in themselves.
Interaction AGM
Notice of AGM
The interaction group will have its AGM at the BCS HCI Conference in Liverpool on Thursday 4th September at 18:00 in the New York Suite, Holiday Inn. All members welcome.
Russell Beale
Chair, Interaction
HCI 2008
HCI2008 Culture, Creativity, Interaction
HCI researchers, students and practitioners are invited to HCI 2008 to be hosted by Liverpool John Moores University next September (1st - 5th). The tag line for 2008 is “Culture, Creativity, Interaction” reflecting the fact that in 2008 Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture. Throughout the year there will be cultural events ranging from community arts to headline events such as the Turner Prize. In the week before the conference there will be the Annual Beatles Week and immediately afterwards Liverpool will host the BritishAcademy Festival of Science. The Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art also takes place, starting September. Our cultural theme reflects not just events in Liverpool but also recent developments in HCI where the arts and humanities offer us both new insights and new challenges. Though “culture” is not the only theme for the conference we hope to reflect the cultural events happening in the rest of the city and on Merseyside. Our hope is that culture will be a unifying theme for the various strands that form the HCI family of disciplines.
Sociotech ID Workshop 2008
Overview
Interaction design is becoming more challenging because of advances in technology – pervasive, ubiquitous, multimodal and adaptive – are changing the nature of interaction. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for interaction design practitioners and specialists interested in knowledge from the social sciences to discuss how sociotechnical insights can best be used to inform interactive design and how social methods and theories can fit into changing patterns of development and participatory design. Both long papers and short papers submissions are invited, addressing key aspects of current research and practical case studies.
HCI 2007
The conference has now passed. This information is for historical reference only.
Click here for the HCI 2007 conference proceedings.
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