Visual designer's notes: CHI '95

  • Authors:
  • Peter Vanags

  • Affiliations:
  • Senior Interface Architect, U dot I, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This article reports one visual designer's impressions of the CHI '95 conference, held in Denver, Colorado, from May 7 to 11, 1995. For the readers of this column who are regular conference attendees, I hope to provide glimpses of elements you may have missed. After all, with the frenetic schedule of a CHI conference, what attendee can actually see all they really want to see? And for those of you who were unable to attend this year, especially practitioners in the visual design community who were too busy designing interfaces to attend, I hope to give you a feeling for some of the big themes of this year's CHI, both within and outside the conference program, and to point you toward some of the interesting things you missed.For all readers, this article provides some useful pointers to the CHI '95 Conference Proceedings and the CHI '95 Conference Companion, for details about the notable papers and other presentations included in the conference program. This year's Electronic Proceedings and Companion CD-ROM is particularly complete, containing all the text of the weighty books, as well as accompanying graphics and illustrations, in a format that can be read by any HTML browser on any computer platform.This trip report focuses mostly on visual design related activities at the conference, and as a result isn't a very balanced or comprehensive report of what happened. Rather, this article presents my own selected thoughts and impressions as a sixth-time attendee of the conference and a practicing visual designer in the field of human-computer interaction. I hardly need to add that opinions presented in this article are my own, and do not always jibe with those of my employer, U dot I, Inc.