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"Interfaces" Winter 2003 edition goes Online
Source: UN, 5 March 2003
Submitted by
Tom McEwan
Every three months, a new issue of Interfaces appears on the British HCI Group website. (The printed version is distributed to members three months earlier, so if you want it any earlier you'll have to join up!). There are now 19 back issues available online - all the way back to the fabled summer of 97.
The latest issue to be available contains the usual collection of editorials, committee reports (including the chart of the most popular IwC papers), book reviews and the following articles.
Andy Smith reports on a usability collaboration between the UK and India - what do desktop metaphors mean to those who have never seen a desk?!
Markopoulos, Bekker and Read review the International Workshop on Interaction Design and Children – 2002, while Penny Noy interviews editor-in-chief of a new journal (Information Visualization): Chaomei Chen of Drexel University, USA.(This was first published in the newsletter of the Information Visualization Society.)
New member of the BHCIG Executive, Elaine Campbell of Upstart training recounts tales from the implementation of online training for engineers.9
Sarah Kettley covers the International Symposium of Wearable Computers 2002, while a variety of individuals, some real, recount lurid narratives from HCI2002. Among them, future editor of Interfaces, Laura Cowen from IBM describes the experience of giving her first conference paper - an inspiration to neophytes, and capable of stirring fond memories for HCI veterans like Alistair Kilgour who gives a detailed account of HCI2002 Educators' Workshop.
Cassandra weaves her mystic spell once more with a piece that commences with the following typical quotation: "All knowledge, the totality of of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog." Cassandra Hall.
Anne Smith describes her PhD, and Xristine Faulkner, Arlene Kline and Mark Treglown supply a full collection of book reviews. Media personality (following her well-received radio4 appearance) Catriona Campbell rounds off the issue by being gracious enough to answer our Profile questions.
Tom McEwan
Editor (until issue 54 - which should be landing on members' doorsteps any day now)
 Associated Link:
Interfaces, the magazine of the British HCI Group, Issue 53
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