From: Andrew.Cohill@vtssi.vt.edu (Andrew Michael Cohill)
Subject: ORGS: Professional organizations and HCI
Date: 29 Jan 93 14:39:33 GMT
Organization: Fire in the Mountain


Crossposted from comp.human-factors


There are two places to start when investigating organizations that
are involved with HCI:

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
P.O. Box 1369
Santa Monica, CA  90406-1369  USA
310/394-1811
fax 310/394-2410

There are about 20 technical groups in the HFES with a wide range of
special interests, but the largest one is the CSTG (Computer Systems
Technical Group), with about 1100 members, or about 20% of the society
(only about half the society's members also subscribe to the technical
groups).  Virtually all of the people in the CSTG are involved with
HCI.  The CSTG also has a listserv group, CSTG-L, publishes the CSTG
'Bulletin' three times a year, and sponsors numerous paper sessions at
the annual HFES conference.

The HFES is now publishing 'Ergonomics in Design', a magazine aimed
especially at practitioners, and of course there will be articles on
HCI in practice in practically every issue.  HFES membership also
includes the HFES journal, for more scholarly work, and the HFES
Bulletin, a monthly newsletter of the Society.  Dues are $70.00
US/year.

Association for Computing Machinery  (ACM)
1515 Broadway
New York,NY  10036-5701  USA
212/869-7440
fax 212/869-0481

The ACM has SIGs instead of TGs.  SIGCHI (Computer Human Interaction)
has several thousand members and hosts the largest yearly conference
on HCI in the world.  This year's conference is called InterCHI and
will be held in Amsterdam, in conjunction with the European HCI
conference Interact.  Normally the CHI conferences are held in the US.
In addition to 'Communications of the ACM', if you pay the additonal
dues for SIGCHI, you get the SIGCHI Bulletin several times a year,
with lots of articles and information about HCI work, both academic
and practitioner oriented.

Dues for both are about $100.00 US/year.