CHI

We wish you a warm welcome to CHI 2000! The CHI conference provides a forum for people to meet both formally and informally, to share and to learn. We trust that you will find here the intellectually exciting and personally rewarding experiences that bring people back to this conference year after year.The CHI conference is sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). SIGCHI is an international group of researchers, practitioners, educators, designers, students and others who share an interest in human-computer interaction. SIGCHI is committed to advancing the field of human-computer interaction and supporting the exchange of information within the HCI community. This conference will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about SIGCHI activities and to explore taking an active role in one or more such activities. You can do this by attending the Newcomer's Orientation at the conference, stopping by the SIGCHI booth, attending the SIGCHI Business Meeting or talking to any one of the Exectuvie Committee members who are identified by the EC ribbon on their badges.While the CHI conference is the largest and most visible activity of SIGCHI, we also support numerous other conferences. They include conferences on computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), virtual reality software and technology (VRST), user interface software and technology (UIST), design of interactive systems (DIS), intelligent user interfaces (IUI), design of augmented reality environments (DARE), creativity and cognition (C&C) and universal usability (CUU). SIGCHI also distributes the quarterly SIGCHI Bulletin, a research journal, Transactions on Information Systems (TOCHI), and a magazine for practioners called Interactions.The SIGCHI Development Fund has been supporting HCI activities proposed by SIGCHI members for many years. If you have ideas for advancing our field or for communicating about our field to others, we encourage you to submit a proposal. Details about how to submit can be found on our SIGCHI website. The SIGCHI website also has many other useful pieces of information from descriptions of the many conferences and workshops we run to access to the HCI Bibliography. We urge you to visit it regularly to find out what is happening in the world of HCI - http://www.acm.org/sigchi/.