Human Factors in Computing Systems
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ( CHI ) [ kaɪ ] is a scientific conference series that deals with the interaction between humans and computers. It is carried out by ACM SIGCHI , a special interest group that deals with human-machine interaction . CHI is an annual conference that first took place in 1982. The conference attracts thousands of international participants every year.
history
The conference series started in Gaithersburg in 1982 . During the conference the establishment of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) was announced. ACM SIGCHI became a sponsor of the conference series in the following years. The first conference organized by SIGCHI was held in Boston in 1983 . The second conference took place in 1985 in San Francisco . Since then the conference has been organized every spring. Until 1992 the conference was held exclusively on the American continent. In 1993 it took place for the first time in Europe together with the INTERACT conference in Amsterdam .
The conference has grown in popularity over the years. In 1982 907 people took part. In 1990 the CHI drew 2,314 participants and the number of participants has remained relatively constant since then. After the early years, the CHI became very selective. Since 1993, the acceptance rates for technical articles have been consistently below 30 percent. After 1992 the acceptance rate averaged around 20 percent. The number of articles is slowly increasing and in 2008 led to 157 technical articles accepted with an acceptance rate of 22 percent.