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HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That have Influenced the HCI Community will be published on December 21, 2007. Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has produced a rich and varied literature. Although the focus of attention today is naturally on new work, older contributions that played a role in shaping the trajectory and character of the field have much to tell us. The contributors to HCI Remixed were asked to reflect on a single work at least ten years old that influenced their approach to HCI. The result is this collection of fifty-one short, engaging, and idiosyncratic essays, reflections on a range of works in a variety of forms that chart the emergence of a new field. For more information see its entry in the MIT Press catalog, or the project archives.

Project Archives

Status
Public Call for Participation
If you're interested, please read

• About the HCI Remixed Project (The project goals and FAQ)
• About the HCI Remixed Process (The submission process and various resources)
• (Shortcut to resources, including the Works 'Taken' list)

 

Status

As above .

If you're curious, a table of contents and list of works written about is at http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HCIremixed_TOCandLOW.html (Note that this is the pre-edited, pre-proof-read version).

Public Call for Participation [submissions are closed]

We are inviting you to contribute to a unique project for the HCI community: HCI Remixed! Our aim is to produce a collection of essays in which researchers and practitioners reflect on a paper or other piece of work by someone else, that is at least 10 years old, and that has had a personal impact on their view of or approach to HCI.

We intend the essays to be brief (up to about 1800 words), personal in tone, and reflective in nature. In form they are similar to book reviews, but rather than taking a critical stance the goal is for each essay to examine the positive impacts the work has had. We believe that a collection of such work will provide a unique perspective on how HCI has developed, will direct readers to forgotten or underappreciated work, and will perhaps remind them that their own work, by influencing others, can have a lasting impact on the future of HCI.

The status of the project is that we've signed a letter of agreement with MIT Press to publish a book, contingent, of course, on their final approval; we also intend to launch a blog associated with the project. A full description of the HCI Remixed Project, including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), submission process, and deadlines follows.

The schedule

• May 19, 2006 or earlier – Statement of interest, indicating the work you would like to write about, and a one paragraph synopsis of your essay. Be sure to look over the other pages before writing this. [Extended one week to the 19th]
• We will reply to your statement of interest as quickly as possible.
  
• June 23, 2006 – Polished Essay Due
  
• Week of July 10, 2006 – Accept/Reject Notification 

If you have questions that are not addressed by these pages and our FAQ, or if you would like to discuss possible essay topics, please contact us at: project@hciremixed.org

Best regards,
-- Thomas Erickson and David McDonald

If you're interested, please read

• About the HCI Remixed Project
  It lays out the aims of the project, provides suggestions for how to approach it, how to select a work to write about, and has a set of FAQs.
  About the HCI Remixed Process
  This provides a step by step description of how to participate, including what we want in the statement of interest, information about the format for your submission, and other materials that will be required.

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Page Change History

• 20 Dec 2007: Pages archived. Pointer to current information placed at top of the page.
• 25 May 2006: Minor changes to headings and navigation structure
• 13 May 2006: Extended Statement of interest deadline...
• 21 Apr 2006: Added shortcut to resources, including the "works 'taken'" list.
• 17 Apr 2006: Updated for launch of public call; site restructured.
• 10 Apr 2006: Updated the formatting document for the submission to V2.
• 01 Apr 2006: Updated project description pdf with the two new FAQs; emphasized that selected work should by by another author
• 29 Mar 2006: Added pointer to new FAQs on the FAQ page
• 28 Feb 2006: Original material

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