Image: SoC Assistant Professor Dr. Ari Schlesinger recently co-organized an event to create a Southeastern Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) chapter. Hosted at Google Atlanta, this Chapter-in-the-Works social was co-organized with Dr. Ding Wang (Google), Dr. Neha Kumar (GT, Interactive Computing; SIGCHI President), Dr. Naveena Karusala (GT, Interactive Computing; SIGCHI VP Communications), Dr. Scott Appling (GT, GTRI), and Dr. Kristin Williams (Emory). With more than 60 attendees from Emory, Georgia Tech, Google, and the University of Georgia, attendees identified goals for this chapter-in-progress including: hosting local Human-Computing Interaction (HCI) workshops, building mentorship networks, and establishing regular meetups for HCI researchers and practitioners across the Southeast. SIGCHI, a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is the world's largest association of professionals who contribute towards the research and practice of human-computer interaction (HCI). This interdisciplinary group of computer scientists, software engineers, psychologists, interaction designers, graphic designers, sociologists, multi-media designers, information scientists, and anthropologists, just to name some of the domains whose special expertise comes to bear in this area. The group is built on a shared understanding that designing useful and usable technology is an interdisciplinary process, and when done properly it has the power to transform lives If you're interested in getting involved with SIGCHI, don't hesitate to get in touch with Dr. Ari Schlesinger.
