“The new byline ('experience - people - technology') is
already a mission statement in itself, especially since
the magazine is published by ACM, which stands for
'Association for Computing Machinery'.”
Mark Vanderbeeken, Putting People First

“The new byline ('experience - people - technology') is
already a mission statement in itself, especially since
the magazine is published by ACM, which stands for
'Association for Computing Machinery'.”
Mark Vanderbeeken, Putting People First

putting people first

Our Vision
Our Roots

the first issue

before the first issue

an early name, an early proposal…

… extensive (but shaky?) analyses …

…a design for the magazine…

… and the first vision.
\"Today a widely distributed diverse community of working
professionals is inventing a reality where the use of computing
resources will have a profound impact on the quality of everyday life.
And so we are practicing in a field where the gradient of change is
staggering, the boundaries fuzzy, and the component parts only
loosely aggregated.
interactions was conceived as a forum for envisioning the
transformation of this new field of practice, and as a place where this
pioneering community can expose the knowledge and experience that
will delineate the boundary conditions as they are discovered.\"
John Rheinfrank,
Bill Hefley.
Reflections.

Our Vision, Goals, …
Our Vision

Our goals:
1. To increase the relevance of this magazine to practitioners
focused on interactions.
2. To ensure the contents of the magazine are deep, diverse,
and of global relevance.
3. To place an emphasis on the people, technology, and
experiences that merge together in contemporary culture to
create meaningful and positive interactions.

Our vision:
We see a world rich with culture, emotion, and human
connections. The human-built world can afford a sense of
beauty, sublimity, and resonance, and through our
advancements in technology can come advances in society. At
the center of these advances are interactions – conversations,
connections, collaborations, and relationships – within and
across multiple disciplines, with and without technology.

To move beyond melting community boundaries:
In structuring the publication and extending the new
interactions team, we have looked to the definitions and
boundaries of the six CHI communities and of SIGCHI as a
whole for guidance. But we have found those definitions and
boundaries to be unclear.

To bridge disciplines:
In our view, much of the benefit of communities lies not in their
exclusiveness but in the muddy grayness between disciplines,
such as where design meets education, research informs
usability, or engineering collides with management.

To expand beyond SIGCHI:
Such interactions … are of no less relevance and importance
to multiple communities outside of SIGCHI. Therefore, it is our
intent to greatly extend this publication’s reach. As we do so,
we believe we will greatly increase its value to SIGCHI and to
all.

“Who reads interactions
now? The believers, the
already committed. We
preach to ourselves. No
wonder the field has
minimal impact.”
Don Norman, January 2008

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Presence at other conferences:

A website!

interactions comes alive
Our Vision

Optimistic Futurism

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Our Vision
Issues

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Behind the Scenes
Our Vision

Community Editors
Our Team: Community Editors

Contributing Editors
Our Team: Community Editors

Columnists
Our Team: Community Editors

Advisory Board
Apala Chavan Aaron Marcus Lisa Neal Shelley Evenson Ian McClelland
Human Factors Aaron Marcus and Independent Carnegie Mellon Phillips Applied
International Associates, Inc Consultant University Technologies
Raquel Prates Jonathan Arnowitz Elizabeth Dykstra- Kun Pyo-Lee Robin Jeffries
Universidade Federal Google Erickson Korea Advanced Google
de Minas Gerais Palm Source Institute of Science
and Technology

ACM Staff and Art Direction
Ken Korman Denise Doig Andrij Borys Alicia Kubista
Executive Editor Managing Editor Art Director Associate Art Director

Our Vision
Q&A

thank you
Our Vision
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