The CHI (Computer-Human Interaction) conference is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human-computer interaction. It started in 1982 (best year ever) and has been held annually since. It is also a quite big event for an academic conference with more than 2000 attendees. CHI 2009 will be in Boston in two weeks and I will be attending for the first time. I will present a poster from my first paper See You on the Subway: Exploring Mobile Social Software. I'm not allowed to make it public before the conference but I will the link here as soon as possible.
The program is very promising but it's gonna be tough to choose which sessions to skip. Quickly my choice would go to:
- Online Relationships
- Growing up Programming: Democratizing the Creations of Dynamic, Interactive Media
- User Experience
- Mobile Technologies for the World's Children
- Techniques for Mobile Interaction
- Social Networking Sites
- Life, Love, Death (alt.chi)
- Build a Better World (alt.chi)
- Look, Hear, Wear
- Mobile Applications for the Developing World
- Interacting with Health (Tim Berners-Lee inside)
- Tools for UX Researchers (Case Studies)
- Method in the Madness (alt.chi)
- Studying Cell Phone Use (work colleague inside)
- Art Creation (Mobile Life colleague inside)