HCI 2005: The Keynotes are Announced

The legendary Ted Nelson has agreed to give the keynote on the Wednesday afternoon of the HCI2005 conference, this year taking place in Edinburgh. He joins the keynote line-up of Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft, Senior Researcher and manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group, and Alistair Sutcliffe from the Centre for HCI Design, University of Manchester. There will also be an array of keynotes and guest presenters for the Industry Day, with some excellent people from the fertile overlap between Marketing, Human-Centred Design and User Experience.

Ted Nelson is best known as the father of hypertext, writing about it 30 years before the Web brought the concept into most homes. He has continued to work in this field and innovate; he will be talking about his vision at the September conference. He is a visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at present and so appearing at a few British events over the two years of his stay. This is one of those rare occasions and a chance to meet someone whom the history of computing allows a sizeable spot.

The conference is scheduled to follow the Edinburgh Festival. Fireworks close the big annual event on the Sunday night. HCI2005 kicks off next morning with two days of Workshops, Tutorials and "guest conferences". Then on the Wednesday, Czerwinski opens the conference proper. So, this may be an HCI conference to get to a few days early.

Associated Link: HCI 2005

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