Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse Users

SIGHCI was pleased to sponsor the HCI track at AMCIS 2007 in Keystone, CO, which included 9 mini-tracks. These SIGHCI sponsored mini-tracks formed 14 paper sessions that spanned the entire conference program. There were a total of 38 papers presented within the HCI track at AMCIS 2007, with strong attendance at each session. The following paper was selected as the best paper from the HCI track and received honorable mention for the overall conference best paper award. Congratulations to these authors for their outstanding work! "Selecting While Walking: An Investigation of Aiming Performance in a Mobile Work Context", by Martin Schedlbauer, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Jesse Heines, University of Massachusetts Lowell Authors of the best completed papers were invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for fast-tracking and publication consideration in a SIGHCI-sponsored special issue of the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. The special issue is expected to be published in 2008 and is co-edited by Matt Germonprez, Traci Hess, Chuck Kacmar, and Young Hwa "Gabe" Lee. Thank you to all authors, mini-track chairs, and reviewers for providing such a good showing of HCI research. SIGHCI looks forward to sponsoring the HCI track at AMCIS 2008 in Toronto, Canada! Track Co-Chairs: Matt Germonprez Traci Hess Peter Tarasewich Inside