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Hi all,
For those of you who will be joining us in Minneapolis at CHI this year:
I wanted to invite you to one other CHI-related thing that is very
exciting - the Development Consortium. Each year, the Development
Consortium sets out to look at issues and directions that the CHI community
and SIGCHI should develop in the coming years. This year, the Development
Consortium brings South Africans and international participants together
with a common goal: to explore cultural experiences across a range of
interactive technologies and applications, in various sectors vital to the
growth of South African society and economy.
Eight top notch South African HCI professionals (researchers, academics and
practionners) will be coming to Minneapolis for the meetings, which will be
held in workshop format on Sunday, 4/21 and Monday, 4/22 (all-day, both
days). They will be joined by other international participants, including
Dr. Derrick Cogburn from the University of Michigan, myself and selected
others. I invite you to consider joining us for what will definitely be
fascinating discussions.
The meetings are free, and open, although as a CHI-sponsored event, we
strongly encourage you to register for the conference (which is going to be
terrific!) If you are interested in coming, please contact me or Jacques
ASAP and we will give you the details of time and place. If you can only
come for one day, that is OK. Just please let us know so we can fill you in
on the agenda.
The Consortium will provide a forum for discussing recent developments and
findings in multicultural HCI. South African participants will find
opportunities for collaboration and mutual learning among themselves and
with their international counterparts. You will hear about some extremely
interesting research and work in a fascinating multicultural society which
is rebuilding itself after years of apartheid.
I had the great priviledge of speaking at the CHI-SA conference last
September (my Plenary was on Sept 11!) and meeting the folks who will be
coming to the DevCon next week, and I am most excited to be seeing them
again. You will find them to be incredibly bright and involved in what, in
my opinion, is some of the most interesting work being done in our field
today. And, because the Consortium is seen as the starting point of a
longer-term initiative to promote HCI in Southern Africa, these participants
will in the future contribute to the development of HCI in Southern Africa
as a whole. You have an opportunity to share in that effort by coming and
participating with them
You can find more general information at:
http://www.sigchi.org/chi2002/development.html
OR more specifics at the CHI-SA site:
http://www.chi-sa.org.za/Devcon/DevConindex.htm
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, or Jacques Hugo,
who is the DevCon co-chair. You can reach him by email at:
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I hope you will join me for one or both days of the Development Consortium.
Best regards,
Susan
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