Founded in 1984, Interaction is a specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS). It provides an organisation for all those working on human-computer interaction - the analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of technologies for human use. For more information about the group, please view the about page.
AGM documentation
Agenda
1. Apologies
2. Reports
3. Election of Officers (Chair, Secretary, Treasurer)
4. AOCB
Reports
Chair: Russell Beale
Essentially – business as usual.
Firstly, thanks to Andy Dearden, who is stepping down from the Communications role – under his stewardship this has grown hugely, encompassing as it did internal, membership, and external comms, including the oversight of the teams that produce usabilitynews and interfaces, both significant in themselves.
HCI 2009
The 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction celebrates the people who use technology, the people who create new technologies, and the relationship between them. A centrepiece of the conference will be an Open House Festival involving the many Cambridge laboratories and startup companies now creating new displays, devices, games, communications and ubiquitous computing technologies.
Interaction AGM
Notice of AGM
The interaction group will have its AGM at the BCS HCI Conference in Liverpool on Thursday 4th September at 18:00 in the New York Suite, Holiday Inn. All members welcome.
Russell Beale
Chair, Interaction
HCI 2008
HCI2008 Culture, Creativity, Interaction
HCI researchers, students and practitioners are invited to HCI 2008 to be hosted by Liverpool John Moores University next September (1st - 5th). The tag line for 2008 is “Culture, Creativity, Interaction” reflecting the fact that in 2008 Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture. Throughout the year there will be cultural events ranging from community arts to headline events such as the Turner Prize. In the week before the conference there will be the Annual Beatles Week and immediately afterwards Liverpool will host the BritishAcademy Festival of Science. The Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art also takes place, starting September. Our cultural theme reflects not just events in Liverpool but also recent developments in HCI where the arts and humanities offer us both new insights and new challenges. Though “culture” is not the only theme for the conference we hope to reflect the cultural events happening in the rest of the city and on Merseyside. Our hope is that culture will be a unifying theme for the various strands that form the HCI family of disciplines.
Sociotech ID Workshop 2008
Overview
Interaction design is becoming more challenging because of advances in technology – pervasive, ubiquitous, multimodal and adaptive – are changing the nature of interaction. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for interaction design practitioners and specialists interested in knowledge from the social sciences to discuss how sociotechnical insights can best be used to inform interactive design and how social methods and theories can fit into changing patterns of development and participatory design. Both long papers and short papers submissions are invited, addressing key aspects of current research and practical case studies.
HCI 2007
The conference has now passed. This information is for historical reference only.
Click here for the HCI 2007 conference proceedings.
News from UsabilityNews.com
Social Science meets Computer Science at Yahoo
By James Temple
Shortly after Carol Bartz took over as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. early last year, she met with Prabhakar Raghavan for an overview of the Sunnyvale Web giant's research division. As the head of Yahoo Labs ran through the catalog of computer scientists on staff, Bartz turned to him and asked: "Where are your psychologists?"
Raghavan was stunned the newly installed CEO had so quickly gotten to a question he'd been asking for years. His answer was they didn't have enough.
Trace exactly what Users are doing
MouseTrace is a new usability tool that will let bloggers and webmasters determine precisely how to enhance the experience of their visitors. At it most basic level, what MouseTrace does is to record the activity of visitors and create a video that the webmaster or blogger can reproduce as many times as he or she wants.
This service is easy to implement: all you have to do is add one line of HTML for MouseTrace to become fully operative and functional. There is no software to install, nothing to set up or configure, and certainly nothing to update later on.
Google boosts Usability with Gmail revamp
By Khidr Suleman
Google has made some changes to Gmail designed to make it easier to store and search for contacts. Features added to the Contacts tab include a larger notes field to record information, automatic saving, structured name fields, the ability to undo changes and keyboard shortcuts.
