CHI '88 poster session papers and abstracts

Abstract

Interactive Poster Sessions serve as a valuable forum for presenting late-breaking research in computer-human interaction and receiving feedback from an interested body of viewers. The poster sessions held at this year's CHI '88 conference, May 15--19 in Washington, D.C., was no exception.Fifty poster presentations, arranged by five topic areas, were located adjacent to the main conference room. Topic areas included user models, interface designs, interface analysis, tools and techniques for interface design, and CHI doctoral eonsortium participants. All 50 posters were on display for the duration of the conference, giving presenter and viewer ample time for interaction. In addition, all poster presenters were available for interaction during the catered opening reception held on Monday evening, May 16, when several hundred people filed through the display area to review poster exhibits and talk with the presenters.The poster exhibitors covered a range of topics as well as a range of countries, with Canada, Germany, England, Switzerland, and Japan represented in addition to the United States. Thirty-three of the participants were from universities, and 10 had also participated in the doctoral consortium held in conjunction with the conference.Abstracts submitted for the poster session were reviewed by a panel of judges which included Louis Blazy, U.S. Department of Defense; Fred Davis' Jr., Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan; Jay Elkerton, Department of lndustrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan; Susan Evans, Vector Research, Inc.; and Fred Schott, Aetna Life Insurance Company.Additional abstracts and papers can bejbund in the July and October 1988 issues of the SIGCHI Bulletin.