Advance Program - Technical Program Overview

Demonstrations (Live and Video)
Demonstrations offer an opportunity to show an innovative interface concept, HCI system, technique or methodology. Attendees are able to view systems in action and discuss them with the people who created them. Demonstrations may be either live or video presentations. CHI demonstrations include both refereed demonstrations and demonstrations informally organized by participants on site.

Organization Overviews
Organization Overviews describe the work of leading organizations engaged in HCI research and practice. The emphasis is on the circumstances under which the work is done, as well as the underlying goals, policies and organizational background and perspectives of the group's past, present and future HCI efforts.

Panels
Panels stimulate thought and discussion about ideas and issues of interest to the human-computer interaction community. Panels typically focus on controversial or emerging issues, allowing speakers and the audience to explore, debate, and reflect on these issues.

Papers
Papers present significant contributions by researchers and practitioners to the HCI field, capable of influencing the design life cycle of current and future interactive systems. Papers are highly refereed and are published in the archival CHI Conference Proceedings and as an issue of CHI Letters. Papers at CHI may be presented in either text or video form. A video paper provides an alternative to textual papers for authors whose work is difficult to portray on paper. Video papers are published in the CHI Video Proceedings and have an associated four-page textual paper in the CHI Conference Proceedings.

Plenary Sessions
Plenary sessions are general sessions that open and close the conference. The key event of the session is usually an invited presentation by a prominent person that supports the conference theme and offers a challenge to people interested in HCI.

Short Talks and Interactive Posters
Short Talks and Interactive Posters are particularly suitable for exciting new findings, ongoing work that has demonstrated special promise, preliminary results, timely work still in a state to be influenced or tightly argued essays or opinion pieces. Posters are visual presentations of work that are displayed throughout the conference. Short Talks are presented in traditional technical sessions.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) enable conference attendees who share a common interest to meet informally for 90 minutes of discussion at the conference. They differ from workshops in that there is no pre-event selection of participants and all attendees may participate.

Student Posters
The Student Posters program offers a unique opportunity for students to present their work at CHI and to receive encouragement in their development as HCI professionals. Student posters are displayed during the conference and provide an excellent opportunity to discuss late-breaking and on-going work in an informal setting.

Newcomers' Orientation
The Newcomers' Orientation is a special session that follows the opening plenary of the conference. It offers an opportunity for those attending CHI for the first time to learn about SIGCHI and ACM as well as to hear recommendations about how to navigate the conference and make session choices in an environment with so many options.