The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named two distinguished leaders of the human computer interaction (HCI) community as co-editors of its bi-monthly publication, interactions. Ron Wakkary of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and Erik Stolterman of Indiana University will bring to the publication their vision of how and why human beings interact with the designed world of technologies.
interactions is ACM's premier publication on applied computer-human interaction (CHI). It aims to keep developers, designers, managers, researchers, and users abreast of the latest tools and ideas emerging from the CHI community. The first issue of interactions, produced by the new editorial team, will appear in January 2011.
Editors Wakkary and Stolterman intend to explore new directions in the dynamic design field. Also, they will seek to increase the magazine's content through expanded participation of its readers for both online and print articles. To globalise the content, they will encourage contributions from more international authors, and promote global perspectives on design practices through their network of connections and relationships within the international community.
A researcher in interaction design and tangible computing, Ron Wakkary is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University's interdisciplinary program of computing, design and media art. A practicing interaction designer, he led a design consultancy in New York, and developed an appreciation of the need to integrate HCI and design research into professional practice.
Erik Stolterman is director of the Human-Computer Interaction Design Program and professor of Informatics at Indiana University. Prior to joining Indiana University in 2005, he chaired the Department of Informatics at Umeå University in Sweden, where he continues as a professor.
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