Technical Program

Complete Technical Program

The complete technical program, from Tuesday to Thursday, as a single, large, text file. You can search the file, looking for your friends, colleagues, or for topics that you are interested in.

Introduction

The Technical Program Chairs introduce you to the technical program.

Session Schedule

See a list of the Technical Program sessions.

Basic Research Symposium

The Basic Research Symposium, held prior to the main Conference, considers a range of research issues in HCI.

Demonstrations

Demonstrations enable participants to view systems in action and discuss them with the people who created them.

Design Briefings

Design Briefings present notable user interface designs with special emphasis on conceptual issues embodied in the designs.

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium, held prior to the main Conference, allows doctoral students in the final stages of their research projects to interact with more experienced researchers.

Organization Overviews

Organization Overviews provide briefings on the work of organizations engaged in HCI research and practice.

Panels

Panels allow speakers and the audience to reflect on and discuss provocative HCI issues.

Papers

Papers report new research findings from mature work in formal 20 minute presentations. Some Paper sessions will include Short Papers.

Interactive Posters

Posters are on display in the Commons throughout the conference. At certain times, authors are available for interaction. Social Action Posters aim to identify socially important issues.

Short Papers

Short Papers report late breaking research findings in formal 10 minute presentations. Short Papers will be presented in selected Paper sessions.

Workshops

Workshops take place prior to the main conference. They bring together people with a very focused shared interest.

Special Interest Groups

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide short meetings during the conference, centered around a focused shared interest.

Videos

Videos showcase innovative HCI design, methodology and interaction techniques and are shown continuously throughout the conference in the Convention Center.

Plenaries

Herb Clark and Betty Edwards are the Plenary speakers at CHI 96.

Invited Contributions

A new event for CHI, Invited Contributions come from outside the traditional HCI disciplines.

Conference Reviews

A CHI 96 innovation, pre-conference events will be reported on at the end of the conference.