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Monday March 1st - Last Chance for Early Registration!
The CHI 2010 Registration site is open, and Early Bird registration ends March 1st. Register now and save $$!
The CHI 2010 Housing site is open, and the housing deadline is March 1st. Why stay at the conference hotel? It,s the center of conference activity, that,s why! You,ll be able to network easily with other conference participants. It,s a quick trip to get to the program and functions, and just as quick to nip back to your room for a break. As a bonus, conference participants staying at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta will receive a complimentary CHI 2010 water bottle to use at filtered water coolers available throughout the conference space.
Media Showcase expanded for CHI 2010
Experience human-computer interaction hands-on, in performance, and on video. These presentations push the boundaries of tangible, multimodal, collaborative, creative, and multimedia interfaces. Hands-on demonstrations will be available during the Exhibits Grand Opening at the conference reception on Monday night, and throughout the rest of the week. Music and dance performances will take place on the Media Showcase Stage in the exhibition hall at the conference reception and at 11:30 am on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. A showcase of videos will be unveiled Tuesday evening and can also be viewed on the Media Showcase stage through the remainder of the week. Performers and demonstrators will also describe their research on scheduled conference panels on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. In addition to the works featured in the main exhibition room, there will be select performances and installations in an adjacent gallery room throughout the conference.
Invited Speaker: Usman Haque - architecture, interaction, systems (4/15, 9am - 10:30am)
As the Director of Haque Design + Research Ltd., Usman Haque has pulled together issues of data, kinetics, collaboration, architecture, and communication. His work brings together various areas of contemporary design practice; bringing interaction in touch with information, combining kinetics with collaboration, and tying the architectonic to the technologic. Each of his projects touches a range of disciplines - and often brushes the sky. He argues that contemporary "technologies alter our understanding of space and change the way we relate to each other. We no longer think of architecture as static and immutable; instead we see it as dynamic, responsive and conversant." Like the fabled Alice, Mr. Haque found a doorway where before there was only cold reflection. Join us this morning to get a look at what Mr. Haque found on the other side.
Invited Talks by SIGCHI Award Winners
CHI 2010 is pleased to host three invited talks by the following SIGCHI Award Winners for 2010:
o Lifetime Research Award: Lucy Suchman
o Lifetime Practice Award: Karen Holtzblatt
o Social Impact Award: Ben Bederson and Allison Druin
Hospitality Events: Wednesday 4/14 @ the Georgia Aquarium, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The hospitality events for this year's CHI will be held at the Georgia Aquarium. All conference participants will have access to the aquarium, so come see the fish and enjoy the hospitality events put on by sponsors Google, Microsoft, and IBM.
Closing Plenary: Noel Sharkey, Doing what's right with robots, an ethical appraisal
Would you let robots care for your children, mind your aging parents, perform surgery on you, protect your home and fights your wars? Since the turn of the century, sales of professional and personal service robots have risen sharply to an estimated 11.5 million by 2011 Their numbers already far outstrip the 1.2 million operational industrial robots on the planet. Service robots are good at dull, dangerous, and dirty work, such as cleaning sewers and windows and performing domestic duties. They harvest fruit, pump gasoline, assist doctors and surgeons, dispose of bombs, police us, entertain us, have sex with us and even kill us. This talk will briefly overview today's service robots and their benefits and then focus on the near-future ethical dangers that they pose.
CHI 2010: The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) is the premier international conference for the field of human-computer interaction. CHI 2010 looks outward to the human experience of computing in the world. "We are HCI" challenges our community to embrace the diversity of HCI in the world and to exclaim our commitment as a profession to empower people from all walks of life.
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