What's New at CHI 2000

Throughout the conference we will be highlighting the various aspects of our Conference theme, The Future is Here.

Special Areas of the Theme
Beyond the Desktop addresses the movement of computers away from work environments into a mobile community doing a broad number of activities. This evolution leads to new ways to approach our focus on how humans interact with computers, or Future HCI.

In celebration of our European location, CHI 2000 will highlight European HCI through a European HCI Village and invited presentations from eminent Europeans in the field.

Recognizing the importance of developing new relationships at the conference and finding opportunities to have stimulating conversations about HCI, CHI 2000's special area Interaction is concerned with providing sessions that encourage participants to have provocative discussions. We will provide several discussion areas in the Commons in support of these interactions. An example of a special session is Interactionary, which will feature teams of designers tackling a design problem in real-time, allowing the audience to contrast design approaches and activities.

New Technical Program Events
New events in the Technical Program include the return of Organization Overviews along with Short Talks and Interactive Posters. In addition, we will have several invited sessions related to the conference theme.

Global HCI Representation
CHI 2000 is truly a global conference. We have 9 Regional Liaisons from 6 continents, a highly international conference committee and review committees. Not only were there record numbers of submissions in most categories, but the accepted submissions are an excellent representation of the international flavor of the field of HCI.

We hope you enjoy your CHI 2000 experience!

Thea Turner and Gerd Szwillus
CHI 2000 General Conference Co-Chairs
chi2000-chairs@acm.org