- ACM SIGACCESS: Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
Sponsors an annual conference on assistive technologies (ASSETS).
- ACM SIGCHI: Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
ACM
sigchi_infodir@acm.org
SIGCHI is the world's most prominent HCI group.
Sponsored conferences:
* CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing
* DIS: Designing Interactive Systems
Co-Sponsored Conferences:
* UIST: User Interface Software and Technology (SIGGRAPH)
* GROUP: Supporting Group Work (SIGGROUP - disbanded 2005)
* IUI: Intelligent User Interfaces (SIGART)
The SIGCHI site has links to many mailing lists and publications.
- ACM SIGDOC: Special Interest Group on Design of Communication
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
ACM
Sponsors an annual conference and publishes
*Journal of Computer Documentation quarterly.
- ACM SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group on Graphics
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
ACM
- ACM SIGGROUP: Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
2005-01-30
ACM
SIGGROUP replaced SIGOIS (Office Information Systems).
It was disbanded 30 January 2005.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/siggroupinfo.html
- ACM SIGIR: Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
ACM
SIGIR sponsors an annual conference on IR research.
- ACM SIGMM: Special Interest Group on Multimedia
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
ACM
SIGMM sponsors an annual conference.
- ACM SIGWEB: Special Interest Group on Hypertext/Hypermedia and the Web
United States, New York, New York, 1515 Broadway, 10036
ACM
SIGWEB (formerly SIGLINK) sponsors an annual conference on hypertext research.
- AFIHM: Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine
French
France, Paris
Eric Lecolinet
2001-06-22
elc@enst.fr
- AIS SIGHCI: Association for Information Systems, Special Interest Group on HCI
United States, New York, Syracuse
Ping Zhang
2002-09-07
Syracuse University
pzhang@syr.edu
AIS SIGHCI is a forum for AIS members to discuss, develop, and promote issues, ideas and research
studies involving the ways human interacts with tasks, information, and technologies, especially in the
business, managerial, and organizational contexts.
- American Center for Design
2002-04-03
The American Center for Design is a primary source of information about design and its
role in our culture and our economy. ACD is currently the only professional organization
that addresses the multifaceted and continually changing nature of design. ACD's members
represent all design disciplines, and their work demonstrates that design theory and
innovation are inseparable from design practice. ACD is committed to connecting its members
to each other, and to the research, ideas, and technologies that are continually shaping,
reshaping, and influencing design and design practice.
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
2002-11-04
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is a 501c6 non-profit
volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture.
- ASIS HCI: American Society for Information Science HCI Interest Group
- ASIS: American Society for Information Science
United States, Maryland, Silver Springs, 8720 Georgia Ave., #501, 20910-3602
The HCI SIG covers Human-Computer Interaction.
- Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
United States, California, San Francisco, 41 Sutter Street, Suite 1006, 94104
awc@awc-hq.org
Promoting the advancement of women in the computing professions.
- BCAB: British Computer Association of the Blind
2001-05-16
- Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI)
Belgium, Louvain-la-Neuve
Jean Vanderdonckt
2002-12-07
Universite catholique de Louvain
bchi@isys.ucl.ac.be
The Belgian Laboratory of Computer-Human Interaction (BCHI) conducts
research, development, and consulting services in the domain of user interface
engineering, a domain between software engineering,
human-computer interaction, and usability engineering.
- Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE)
2007-07-14
This site was created as a resource for obtaining information about BCPE and its certification
programs.
latest news and information on BCPE and ergonomics certification.
- British Computer Society (BCS)
United Kingdom, England, Swindon
The United Kingdom's main computer society.
- British Computer Society (BCS) HCI Group
United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow
hci@bcs.org.uk
The United Kingdom's main HCI group.
It sponsors the annual People and Computers conference,
published by Cambridge University Press and Springer Verlag
under the copyright of the British Informatics Society.
- Cadius (online community for spanish speaking HCI professionals)
Spanish
Spain
Javier Canada
2002-05-06
javier.canada@cadius.org
Discussion list (and online community) for Spanish speaking HCI professionals.
- CIDM Conferences and Events
2006-07-18
info@infomanagementcenter.com
The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) brings together
managers in the field of information development from across the US and
internationally to facilitate the sharing of information about current trends, best
practices, and developments within the industry, from information development to training and
support.
- CogSci: Cognitive Science Society
United States, Ohio, Cincinnati
1998-08-17
cogsci@umich.edu
The Cognitive Science publishes a journal
and the proceedings of its annual conference.
- Complete web usability, quality standards, testing, evaluation, auditing and
implementation professionals. Bangalore, India
India, Bangalore
Vidya Gopinath
2004-05-18
Websickle Usability Consulting
vidya@websickle.com
We help you profit from your web presence by reaching, attracting, converting and
retaining maximum users cost effectively through usability, best practices, w3c quality
standards and usage centered web designing.
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
United States, California, Palo Alto
Sponsors a biannual Participatory Design Conference.
- Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group
Australia, ACT, Canberra
info@chisig.org
- D-lib Program: Research in Digital Libraries
- Design Research Society
2002-03-19
Design Research Society
Our interests include:
* recognising design as a creative act common to many disciplines
* understanding research and its relationship with education and practice
* advancing the theory and practice of design
- Ease of Use Roundtable
info@eouroundtable.com
- Enactive Interfaces
2007-01-17
The driving concept of Enactive Interfaces is then the fundamental role of motor action
for storing and acquiring knowledge (action driven interfaces). Enactive Interfaces are then
capable of conveying and understanding gestures of the user, in order to provide an adequate
response in perceptual terms. Enactive Interfaces can be considered a new step in the
development of the human-computer interaction because they are characterised by a closed loop
between the natural gestures of the user (efferent component of the system) and the
perceptual modalities activated (afferent component). Enactive Interfaces can be conceived to
exploit this direct loop and the capability of recognising complex gestures. Intelligent
interfaces recognise the gesture of the user at the beginning of the action and are able to
interpret the gestures (in terms of intentions, skills and competence) and to adapt to them
in order to improve the users performance.
- ERCIM: European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
France
office@ercim.org
"aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community
and to increase co-operation with European industry."
- Ergonomics Society
United Kingdom, Leicestershire, Loughborough
The United Kingdom's main human factors/ergonomics society.
- Ergonomics Society of Australia
Australia, ACT, Canberra
esa@interact.net.au
- Findability Links
Peter Morville
2004-05-25
Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level,
we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate. At the
system level, we can analyze how well a physical or digital environment supports
navigation and retrieval.
- FOSSUL: Free and Open Source Software Usability Laboratory
United States, Indiana, Indianapolis
Michael Downey
2004-09-16
Indiana University School of Informatics
mjd@fossul.org
- HFES CEDM: Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group
HFES TG on cognitive engineering and decision making.
- HFES CSTG: Computer Systems Technical Group
The most computer-oriented HFES technical group.
- HFES ETG: Educators' Professional Technical Group
HFES TG on human factors education.
- HFES ITG: Internet Technical Group
2001-02-25
HFES TG on human factors of the Internet.
- HFES: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
United States, California, Santa Monica
HFES@compuserve.com
Primarily North American professional human factors engineering association.
- IEEE Computer Society
Publishes several magazines with HCI content.
- IEEE Professional Communications Society
- IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
- IFIP Technical Committee 13 on HCI (IFIP TC.13)
International Federation of Information Processing.
- Industrial Design Society of America
2001-01-08
idsa@idsa.org
- Interaction Design Association
English
United States, worldwide
public relations manager
2005-12-08
Interaction Design Association
publicrelations@ixda.org
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a non-profit professional organization whose
focus is promoting both the field of interaction design and the interests of an international
community of practitioners, managers, educators, and students of interaction design.
- International Interactive Communications Society (IICS)
United States, California, Fremont, 39355 California Street, Suite 307, 94538
worldhq@iics.org
Cutting edge, new media, etc.
- LITA: Human/Machine Interface Interest Group
1998-07-30
"user interfaces and usability issues in library systems"
- LUII: Library User Interface Issues
Liz Kent
2002-11-15
lkent@sbc.edu
The "user" is the library patron, not librarians. Librarians are trained to successfully
circumvent interface problems. Our patrons are not.
- Multimedia Development Group
- Natural Interaction Homepage
Italy, Florence
Alessandro Valli
2003-03-18
Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence
valli@micc.unifi.it
Natural interaction research is related to the study and development of systems and
methods to allow people to interact with computers and machines in a simple, natural and
satisfactory way.
- Norwegian Computer Society HCI SIG
Norway, Oslo
bits@dnd.no
This page is in Norwegian.
- Office of Training Technology
United States, Florida, Orlando
Barbara Tarker
2001-07-03
OTT
tarkerbr@navair.navy.mil
The Office of Training Technology SPIDER site
has over 1200 active files (and over 2300 hotlinks)
that focus on education and training related issues for
* the military services,
* other government agencies, and
* colleges and universities.
- Open Group (X/Open)
- Pliant Research
"a group of researchers interested in the mismatch between the rigidity of current
computing technology and the richness of human lives and practices."
- RoCHI: Romania SIGCHI Chapter
Romania, Bucharest
Costin Pribeanu
2001-09-12
pribeanu@acm.org
ACM/SIGCHI local sig chapter in Romania
- SIGCHI BayCHI: San Francisco Bay Area
United States, California, San Francisco
1990-11-01
chi-BayCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI BuckCHI: Central Ohio ACM SIGCHI
United States, Ohio, Columbus
1996-04-24
chi-buckchi@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI BulSIGCHI: Bulgaria
Bulgaria, Sofia
1997-10-27
chi-Bulgaria@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI CapCHI: Ottawa SIGCHI
Canada, Ontario, Ottawa
1991-10-01
chi-CapCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI Chi-Squared: Chicago SIGCHI
United States, Illinois, Chicago
1997-09-24
chi-squared@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI CHIA: CHI Atlanta
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
chi-Atlanta@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI CHIFOO: Portland, Oregon
United States, Oregon, Portland
1991-06-00
chi-CHIFOO@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter (Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon)
- SIGCHI Czech SIGCHI
Czech Republic, Praque
1998-04-28
chi-Prague@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI GatewayCHI: St. Louis, Missouri
United States, Missouri, St. Louis
1998-09-02
chi-St-Louis@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI GB/SIGCHI Greater Boston
United States, Massachusetts, Boston
1989-09-01
chi-GBSIGCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI Italy
Italy, Bari
1996-04-24
chi-Italy@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI LA-SIGCHI Los Angeles SIGCHI
United States, California, Los Angeles
1992-10-01
chi-LACHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI Lone Star SIGCHI
United States, Texas, Dallas
1993-02-00
chi-LoneStar@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI MosCHI: Moscow SIGCHI
Russia, Moscow
1995-06-01
chi-MosCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI NL
Netherlands, Amsterdam
1997-07-15
chi-nederland@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI NUCHI Northern Utah SIGCHI
United States, Utah, Provo
1993-03-01
chi-NUCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI Puget Sound SIGCHI
United States, Washington, Seattle
1991-03-01
chi-PSSIGCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI SwissCHI: Switzerland
Switzerland, Zurich
1997-12-12
chi-Switzerland@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter and
Special interest group of the Swiss Informaticians Society.
- SIGCHI ToRCHI: Toronto Region ACM SIGCHI
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
1991-03-01
chi-ToRCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI Toulouse
France, Toulouse
1996-07-15
chi-Toulouse@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI TriCHI: Research Triangle Park
United States, North Carolina, Research Triangle Park
1994-12-01
chi-TriCHI@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI TwinCHI: Twin Cities, Minnesota
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis / St. Paul
1998-04-28
chi-twinchi@acm.org
ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter
- SIGCHI: South Africa Chapter
2001-01-17
Prospective chapter
- SIGCHI: South India Chapter
Pradeep Henry
2001-01-04
chi-SouthIndia@acm.org
Advancing user-centered design in India's "Silicon Valley" area.
- Southern Michigan Northern Ohio Local Special Interest Group in Computer Human
Interaction
United States, Michigan/Ohio
Mike Elledge melledge@umich.edu
2003-02-10
MOCHI
melledge@umich.edu
SIGCHI chapter for southern Michigan and northern Ohio
- STC: Society for Technical Communication
We'll fix it in the documentation.
- STC: Society for Technical Communication AccessAbility SIG
2006-02-16
- STC: Society for Technical Communication Usability SIG
- STIMDI: Swedish Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Human-Computer Interaction
This page is in Swedish, with a link to English content.
- The GNOME Usability Project
2002-03-25
GNOME Developer's Site
The GNOME project was born as an effort to create an entirely free desktop environment for free
systems. From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user friendly suite of
applications and an easy-to-use desktop.
The Usability Project strives to make the GNOME experience as pleasant and efficient as possible.
- Universal Usability
2001-01-04
brad_m@unity.ncsu.edu
Universal usability involves understanding how users attempt to accomplish tasks using a variety of
technologies in different organizational and social contexts.
- Usabilité Québec - usability professional's association
French
Canada, Quebec, Montreal
2006-02-01
Usabilité Québec
info@utilisabilitequebec.org
Regroupement des professionnels de l'utilisabilité. Chapitre québecois - usability
professional's association
- Usability Professionals' Association (UPA)
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 60611
2000-06-29
office@upassoc.org
A practical human factors professional association.
- Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) - Minnesota
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis / St. Paul (Twin Cities)
Lyle Kantrovich
2002-05-04
Usability Professionals' Association
lyle_kantrovich@bigfoot.com
UPA-MN was the first local chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association.
Holds monthly meetings and events. Visitors welcome!
- Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) - Montreal
French
Canada, Quebec, Montreal
2003-06-06
UPA - Montreal
info@upa-mtl.org
Le mandat du chapitre montrealais du "Usability Professionals' Association" est de
favoriser le developpement et la promotion de la pratique professionnelle en matiere
d'ergonomie cognitive et d'utilisabilite.
- USABILITYMATTERS.ORG
India, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad
Kaladhar Bapu
2004-08-10
Usabilitymatters.org
kbapu@yahoo.com
This is a group of desingers and design sensitive users from India to fight the battle
for Usability. It discusses issues, events and develepments related to Usability of
everyday things, Bad designs and Human-Computer Interface (HCI). This organization was
founded by Kaladhar Bapu.
- User Modeling Inc.
"The primary purpose of the
organization is to sponsor an international conference on user modeling every two years."
- Web Indexing Special Interest Group
Heather Hedden
2005-02-17
Web Indexing SIG of the American Society of Indexers
heather@hedden.net
Information and resources about human-created indexes, such as A-Z indexes, for web
sites to facilitate searching within a site.
- Wireless Roundtable
Scott Weiss
2001-03-21
Wireless Roundtable
sweiss@usableproducts.com
Thought leadership group for the wireless user experience.
Membership is free and open to all.
Sponsored by Usable Products Company.
http://www.usableproducts.com/
- Worldwide Institute of Software Architects
United States, Georgia, Kennesaw
wwisa@wwisa.org
"a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to accelerate the establishment of the profession of software architecture and to provide information and services to software architects and their clients"