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so why hasn't it changed, then?
by gjvc 4y ago
so why hasn't it changed, then?
- asoneth 4y agoInertia mostly. It's a question every grad student asks at some point. If anyone is actually curious: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) started a Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI.org). Later, the Association for Information Systems (AIS) started a Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI.org) which has remained about an order of magnitude smaller in impact and comes from a different originating field (Information Systems). My impression is that nearly all the papers in one journal would also make sense in the other, but CHI sometimes has a little more design-y or consumer product stuff while IS-HCI has some stuff that's more from the perspective of an IT department. The CHI folks can't unilaterally rename to SIGHCI without stomping over the smaller org, which means merging two different organizations, journals, and conferences run by different professional associations. Such a thing is occasionally proposed (e.g. http://www.bridginghci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/chi-2018-bridging-AIS-HCI-and-CHI-tractinsky-cr.pdf http://www.bridginghci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/chi-20...) which would be nice but in reality I think that's unlikely to happen because the cost exceeds the benefits.
- UncleMeat 4y agoBecause it doesn't matter? NDSS has included topics beyond "network and distributed systems security" for ages too. Also it isn't "computer/human interaction." It is "conference for human and computer interaction."