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CHI 2010 Hosted Events

Several special workshops will be co-located with CHI 2010. We would like to encourage CHI attendees to explore the opportunities offered by these venues.

Computer Human Interaction Mentoring (CHIMe) Workshop

Dates: April 9 - 10, 2010
Location: Co-located with CHI 2010 in Atlanta, GA

The 2010 Computer Human Interaction Mentoring (CHIMe) Workshop, co-sponsored by the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, the Coalition to Diversify Computing, the Empowering Leadership Alliance and the National Science Foundation is a discipline-specific workshop for mentoring young underrepresented minority students in HCI. The workshop provides a unique opportunity for underrepresented minority researchers in HCI to interact with leaders in their field, network, learn about the latest trends in HCI, and present their work to the HCI community for constructive feedback.

We invite graduate students who work in the field of HCI to submit applications for scholarships to attend the workshop. The scholarship will cover travel, lodging and food for the days of the CHIMe Workshop, and student registration fees to attend the CHI 2010 conference after the workshop. Prospective applicants should visit the workshop website.

Website: http://happy.cs.vt.edu/chime/
Organizers: Dr. Ronald Metoyer (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University), and Dr. Manuel Perez-Quinones (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech)
Sponsors: Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, Coalition to Diversify Computing, Empowering Leadership Alliance, National Science Foundation

Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare

Dates: April 10 - 11, 2010
Location: Co-located with CHI 2010 in Atlanta, GA

In recent years, the biomedical informatics community has begun to recognize human-computer interaction (HCI) and better understanding of social and human elements as important to a sound Health IT strategy. Meanwhile, research in human-computer interaction has found healthcare a rich and interesting domain of inquiry. Despite this progress, however, there exists a largely untapped potential to create deeper and more profound connections among the medical, informatics, human-computer interaction, medical sociology and anthropology communities.

The Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) will take place April 10th and 11th, 2010 in conjunction with the CHI 2010 conference. This event is designed to foster conversation and bridge communities and will include specialists in biomedical informatics, nursing informatics, medical sociology, human-computer interaction, and related fields.

Website: http://chi2010.org/wish
Organizers: Dr. Gillian Hayes (UC Irvine) (Chair), Dr. Desney Tan (Microsoft Research) (Chair), and Lauren Wilcox (Columbia University) (Student Coordinator)
Sponsors: National Science Foundation, ACM SIGCHI, Microsoft Research

Atlanta HCI Tours

Sponsored by the GVU Center at Georgia Tech and Turner Broadcasting

The tradition continues! SIGCHI Atlanta invites you to tour our beautiful host city, Atlanta, Georgia, through HCI City Tours. Stay an extra night and sign up for a day of exciting and informative tours of Turner Studios, CNN Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, SCAD Atlanta (Savannah College of Art and Design), and Moxie Interactive. Take the opportunity to see the best HCI practices, new technologies, and cutting-edge research and innovation presented in the capital of the New South.

Atlanta HCI Tours will take place on Friday, April 16, the day after the CHI conference ends. Transportation and lunch are provided.

To sign up for a tour:

Space is limited, so please register soon. The CDC visit requires a background check (can take up to 4 weeks). If you register for the CDC tour, please let us know whether you’re a US citizen, and CDC will send you a form to complete.

All morning tours depart from the Hyatt Hotel. All the afternoon tours depart from the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.

Please note: You can also attend only the GVU Center’s Research Showcase from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. However we won’t be able to provide transportation for you. The GVU Center is located only two MARTA (rapid rail) stops from the Hyatt. Lunch will be provided there, so please register as well so we know you are planning to attend.

Morning Tour 1 (8:30 am – 2:30 pm)
CDC
Moxie Interactive
GVU Center at Georgia Tech (lunch and Research Showcase)

Morning Tour 2 (8:30 am – 2:30 pm)
Turner
CNN Center
GVU Center at Georgia Tech (lunch and Research Showcase)

Morning Tour 3 (8:30 am – 2:30 pm)
CNN Center
SCAD
GVU Center at Georgia Tech (lunch and Research Showcase)

GVU Research Showcase only (11:30 am – 2:30 pm)
85 5th Street, 2nd and 3rd floor
Atlanta, GA, 30308

Afternoon Tour 1 (2:00 pm – 5:30 pm)
CDC
Moxie Interactive

Afternoon Tour 2 (2:30 pm – 5:30 pm)
SCAD
CNN