Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ( CHI) [ kaɪ ] is a scientific conference series, which deals with the interaction between people and computers. It is carried out by ACM SIGCHI, a Special Interest Group, which deals with the human-machine interaction. CHI is a conference held annually, which took place in 1982 for the first time. The conference attracts every year thousands of international participants.

History

The conference series started in 1982 in Gaithersburg. During the conference, the founding of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer - Human Interaction ( SIGCHI ) has been announced. ACM SIGCHI was in the following years to the sponsor of the conference series. The first, organized by the SIGCHI conference was held in 1983 in Boston. The second conference was held in 1985 in San Francisco. Since then, the conference is organized every year in the spring. Until 1992, the conference was organized exclusively on the American continent. In 1993, she was first in Europe held in conjunction with INTERACT conference in Amsterdam.

Over the years, the popularity of the conference increased. 1982 was attended by 907 people. 1990 pulled the CHI 2314 participants, and the number of participants is relatively constant since then. After the early years, the CHI was very selective. Since 1993, the adoption of quotas for technical contributions are consistently below 30 percent. After 1992, the acceptance rate has averaged around 20 percent. The number of contributions rises slowly and led in 2008 to 157 adopted technical contributions in an acceptance rate of 22 percent.