CHI 2005 Press

Well CHI 2005 is coming up (advance registration closes on Mar 14), and KC and I will be attending as “press”. This means we get to wear pencils behind our ears and ask the hard questions. This year promises to be interesting with the opening and closing speakers covering inter-disciplinary collaboration and showing off novel input devices for live electronic performance (sweet.). Beyond this, there are scores of excellent papers, but sadly only two OK/Cancel reporters. So we need to figure out who to interview, and in an effort to appear somewhat democratic, we’re opening the floor to our readers.

Here are the panels and papers being presented this year. Go ahead and poke around, and send us your suggestions for who to interview. KC will then crunch the numbers in his remarkable TabletPC contabulator device, and within a couple weeks we might have some stories or comics on those research areas. Voila!