From the Editor: New Beginnings

Joseph A. Konstan

COLUMNS

From the Chair: Web Weaving

Marilyn Tremaine and Wendy Mackay

Education: HCI Education - People and Stories, Diversity and Intolerance

Alan Dix

Local SIGs: CHI Local SIGs: Easy to Find at CHI 99 and, Increasingly, Throughout the World

Richard I. Anderson

Computers and Kids: Four Years of CHIkids from a CHIkid!

Allison Druin

WORKSHOPS & PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS

A Research Agenda for Highly Effective Human-Computer Interaction: Useful, Usable, and Universal

Jean Scholtz, Michael Muller, David Novick, Dan R. Olsen Jr., Ben Shneiderman, Cathleen Wharton

End User Programming / Informal Programming

Howie Goodell, Sarah Kuhn, David Maulsby, and Carol Traynor

Research Issues in the Design of Online Communities: Report on the CHI 99 Workshop

Amy Bruckman, Judith Donath, Thomas Erickson, Wendy Kellogg, and Barry Wellman

Tool Support for Task-Based User Interface Design - A CHI 99 Workshop

Birgit Bomsdorf, Gerd Szwillus

Interacting with Statistics - A CHI 99 Workshop

Michael Levi and Frederick Conrad

Senior CHI - The CHI 99 Development Consortium

Jason B. Ellis, Sandra Kogan, Jim Rowan

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

SIGCHI's Role in Influencing Technology Policy

Jeff Johnson

SIGCHI User Interfaces for Electronic Product Catalogs

Jurgen Koenemann and Markus Stolze

Automated Data Collection for Evaluating Collaborative Systems

Jill Drury, Tari Fanderclai, Frank Linton

Universal Web Access: Delivering Services to Everyone

Gary Perlman

CONFERENCE & PROGRAM REPORTS

Conference Report: The Active Web

Alan Dix and David Clarke

"Proceedings Sharing Program" at CHI 99

Gary Perlman

NEWS

The Real World: Telephones

Lon Barfield