CHI 2008 interactions magazine session

Slide 2: “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

Slide 3: “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

Slide 4: putting people first

Slide 5: Our Vision Our Roots

Slide 7: the first issue

Slide 8: before the first issue

Slide 9: an early name, an early proposal…

Slide 10: … extensive (but shaky?) analyses …

Slide 11: …a design for the magazine…

Slide 12: … 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.

Slide 13: Our Vision, Goals, … Our Vision

Slide 16: 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.

Slide 17: 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.

Slide 19: 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.

Slide 20: 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.

Slide 21: 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.

Slide 22: “Who reads interactions now? The believers, the already committed. We preach to ourselves. No wonder the field has minimal impact.” Don Norman, January 2008

Slide 24: A sampling of ways to increase our footprint:

Slide 25: A sampling of ways to increase our footprint: $185 $50!

Slide 26: A sampling of ways to increase our footprint: $185 $50! Advertising!

Slide 27: A sampling of ways to increase our footprint: $185 $50! Advertising! A website!

Slide 28: Presence at other conferences:

Slide 29: A website!

Slide 34: interactions comes alive Our Vision

Slide 37: Optimistic Futurism

Slide 51: 80 pages per issue

Slide 52: Our Vision Issues

Slide 53: The Role of Print Media Print Web Free Fee

Slide 54: Behind the Scenes Our Vision

Slide 55: Community Editors Our Team: Community Editors

Slide 56: Contributing Editors Our Team: Community Editors

Slide 57: Columnists Our Team: Community Editors

Slide 58: 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

Slide 59: ACM Staff and Art Direction Ken Korman Denise Doig Andrij Borys Alicia Kubista Executive Editor Managing Editor Art Director Associate Art Director

Slide 61: Our Vision Q&A

Slide 62: thank you Our Vision http://interactions.acm.org