Dear Colleagues. Its a pleasure to announce a Special Interest Group in User Interface History at the HCI Conference CHI’2008 in Florence, April 5-10, 2008. This Special Interest Group will investigate the possibilities of launching a concerted effort towards creating a History of User Interfaces. It takes place on Thursday April 10th from 11.30 to 13.00. Brad Myers from Carnegie-Mellon University is co-organizer. The CHI conference is the leading HCI conference. It is expected to attract about 2000 HCI people from academia and industry, see www.chi2008.org. I don’t expect many historians of computing to attend, but if you happened to be in the neighbourhood ... The 4-page description of the Special Interest Group can be downloaded from http://itu.dk/people/anker/UI-History/UI-History-SIG.pdf The SIG welcomes anyone with an interest in the History of User Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction, including, but not limited to: - pioneers and innovators that may provide insights on visions and driving forces behind their work, - interface developers that may report on the context of their work, - HCI scholars with a historical bent, and - historians of computing that may provide historical theory and methodology. Best wishes - Anker Helms Jorgensen -o-o-o-o-o-o-o- Anker Helms Jorgensen Associate Professor, PhD IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaardsvej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark anker@itu.dk http://www1.itu.dk/sw4489.asp +45 72 18 50 00