About BostonCHI

What We Do

SIGCHI is a forum for the study of human-computer interaction (HCI) and includes research and development efforts leading to the design and evaluation of user interfaces. The focus of SIGCHI is on how people communicate and interact with computer systems. SIGCHI serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among computer scientists, human factor scientists, psychologists, social scientists, systems designers and end users. (from ACM SIGCHI)

BostonCHI is the Boston area chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. Our members, from throughout New England, share ideas and experiences on the rapidly growing and changing area of how computers and people interact. Read the chapter Bylaws.

We have monthly gatherings in the metro Boston area, which are open to both members and non-members at no charge. In addition, members receive a monthly e-mail newsletter. If you're not yet a member, we encourage you to become one!

Who We Are

BostonCHI is an organization of professionals from the New England area in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Our members represent the diverse interests of that field: graphic arts, documentation, usability, psychology, user interface design, human factors, industrial design, ergonomics, computer science, training, education, and many others.

BostonCHI Steering Committee: 2011 - 2012

Chair: Rachel Kern Chair@BostonCHI.org
Vice Chair: Todd Chapin Vice-Chair@BostonCHI.org
Treasurer: Carl Seglem Treasurer@BostonCHI.org
Membership: Kay Corry Aubrey
Aaron Powers
Member-Chair@BostonCHI.org
Program Coordinator: Russ Brami Programs@BostonCHI.org
Publicity: Paul Turner Publicity@BostonCHI.org
Newsletter Editor: Nancy Mann Editor@BostonCHI.org
Information Director: Bill Barnert InfoDir@BostonCHI.org
Web Editor: Aaron Seidman
InfoDir@BostonCHI.org
Video Production: David Adler
Video@BostonCHI.org
CHI Bits Coordinator: Rachel Kern
Chair@BostonCHI.org
Venue Coordinators: Merry Morse (IBM)
Nancy Mann (Constant Contact)

HotJobs Coordinator: Todd Chapin HotJobs@BostonCHI.org
Academic Liaison: Denise Graeff
Other Steering Committee Members: Matt Belge
Doug Gibson
Lisa Neal Gualtieri
Ron Perkins
Nicole Yankelovich


The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an educational and scientific society of the computing community, and is dedicated to the development of information processing as a discipline, and to the responsible use of computers in an increasing diversity of applications. Through its publications, special interest groups, chapters, and committee activities, ACM promotes and provides for the dissemination of technical and non-technical computing information to its members and the public. The address is: ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.


BostonCHI is the New England area chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

BostonCHI meets ten times a year on the second Tuesday of the month except in July and August.


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