Literature/1996/Pemberton


 * http://web.archive.org/web/20090204201945/http://www.sigchi.org/bulletin/1996.1/

Authors

 * Steven Pemberton
 * mailto:Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
 * http://www.cwi.nl/~steven

Excerpts

 * From the Editor&#58; CHI as in arCHIve
 * Steven Pemberton


 * Someone interested in HCI reads the SIGCHI Bulletin, but apparently only someone involved in SIGCHI knows how to pronounce it, and that's why we chose Archive as the title for this issue, so that everyone would know. CHI is pronounced like the chi in archive.
 * This issue marks the start of ACM's 50th Anniversary year, and to celebrate the start of the year this issue features a look back at the history of SIGCHI. Ever wondered how come there have been 27 volumes of the SIGCHI Bulletin, while HCI didn't even come into existence before 1980? Read on....


 * SIGCHI&#58; The Early Years
 * Lorraine Borman


 * ... during [the late 70's], a growing number of people became concerned about the human interaction of computer systems. The need for "people-oriented" systems, which reflected the needs and behavioral characteristics of the user population, became a matter of major interest to the computing profession.
 * The ACM itself recognized the importance of the user interface when it scheduled Allen Newell to be an invited speaker at the Computer Science Conference in February 1982. Professor Newell's topic: "Human Interaction with Computers: The Requirements for Progress."
 * Between 1978 and 1982, we lobbied for a name change from SIGSOC to SIGCHI.
 * "In every journal, in every discussion these days, we hear that systems aren't being used as the designers envisioned: it is time to emphasize research directed towards the users. The days of computer-oriented people are passing: the new era must lead towards people-oriented computers." (L. Borman, SIGSOC Bulletin, Spring 1978, Volume 9)
 * Again, in the July 1978 Bulletin, 10,1, Borman wrote "we want to give special focus to the human factors in computing, such as through studies of user's reactions to current systems, review of methods for assessing differences in the human results, and discussions of the theoretical basis for these performance differences."


 * Why Don't More Non-North-American Papers Get Accepted to CHI?
 * Ellen A. Isaacs and John C. Tang


 * CHI '95 received 228 submissions, 66 of which were accepted, leaving 162 rejected submissions. Each paper received evaluations from between four and nine reviewers .... Each paper is assigned to an associate chair (AC), who writes a "meta-review." ACs are intended to summarize the reviewers' comments, perhaps weighting those comments differently depending on their judgement of the seriousness of the criticisms. ACs are also free to add their own opinions to the meta-reviews.

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