Pre-Conference Overview

Development Consortium
The Development Consortium can be used as a vehicle for examining issues and directions that the HCI community and SIGCHI should develop in the coming years. This year it will focus on realizing the CHI 2001 goal of providing unique opportunities for bringing together diverse members of the global HCI community. This will be accomplished, in part, by the inclusion of Latin American researchers, designers, developers, and educators.

Doctoral Consortium
The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of invited doctoral students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop with other students and a group of experienced researchers.

New! State of the Science Exchange
This State of the Science Exchange presents a unique opportunity for researchers, industry representatives, and leaders in the disability access field to exchange ideas about where information technology is going and what this means for usability of these technologies by people with functional limitations.

Tutorials
Tutorials are courses designed for novice to experienced participants. Courses cover a wide range of topics from theory to practice. This year, several tutorials will contain content that is representative of the conference theme: anyone.anywhere.

Workshops
Workshops provide a valuable opportunity for small communities of people with diverse perspectives to engage in rich one- to two-day discussions about a topic of common interest. Workshop participants are pre-selected and workshops offer an opportunity to explore and develop work collaboratively.