Vol.36 No.5, September/October 2004

2005 SIGCHI Budget

Rob Jacob, the SIGCHI Treasurer, discusses the proposed lean and mean budget for 2005. The SIGCHI Executive Committee completed its budget for the ACM 2005 fiscal year (which begins on July 1, 2004) and you can see it in this article.

CSCW

Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference 2004 (CSCW 2004, http://www.acm.org/cscw2004) is a multidisciplinary conference co-sponsored by ACM, ACM SIGCHI, and ACM SIGGROUP. This year’s conference is taking place on November 6-10, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois.

AVI2004 Report

Report from Thomas Rist on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2004) conference.

New Developments in SIGCHI Related E-Mail

Alan Wexelblat, the Operations Chair discusses the renaming project and what that may mean for your mailing lists and email aliases.

New SIGCHI International Series

Apala Chavan announces a new series of interviews with prominent members of our Local Chapters.

An interview with RusCHI's Ivan Burmistrov

Apala Chavan interviews SIGRusCHI's Ivan Burmistrov, discussing the state of HCI in Russia.

Two new SIGCHI Initiatives

Vice Chair Mary Czerwinski discusses two new initiatives regarding speakers and organizational outreach.

SIGCHI EEC Minutes for June 2004

Communications Chair Julie Jacko reports the minutes from the June 04 Executive Committee meeting.