CHI'96 Basic Research Symposium The Vision

We wish to create a place where the fundamentals which underlie the study of human-computer interaction can be discussed in an informal yet challenging environment; a place which is truly a common ground. whereon researchers from different disciplines can meet to present new developments and insights from their own field, receive stimulation from others, and celebrate their diversity.

This will not be a market place where we each sell our own projects, products or personalities, but instead a meeting place where the successes and failures, joys and frustrations of our ongoing work can be openly offered in the expectation that critique rather than criticism will be offered in return. Together we will work towards the common theoretical grounding upon which the applications of HCI can be built.

Our special vision for the CHI'96 Basic Research Symposium is that it will not only be a meeting place for the benefit of those who attend, but also a mustering place from which we will leave to offer the insights and problems we have found to the conference as a whole and to the community at large.