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CHI 2008 is over – A few Impressions...

The CHI 2008 conference on human factors in computing systems, the world's largest conference in the UI field is over. Here are a few impressions from SAP at CHI 2008.
 See the CHI 2008 Website • Read SAP's Presence at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy – A Photo Story

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• new The Three Pillars of Human Performance at the Computer – Which One Fits Best? When talking about the performance of computer systems or applications, we soon realize that we have to consider an "android" system. That is, the performance of the whole system, not only the performance of its components, namely, the computer system and the human user. So, we might ask, "Is there an approach that takes the whole system, the computer and the user into account?" In this article, our author will look at this issue more closely.
• new CHI 2008 – Trip Report The theme of this year's CHI was "Art, Science, Balance," and what better location than Florence Italy, the city of great artists and scientists, to contemplate this concept? The venue for CHI 2008 was the historic Fortezza da Basso, a medieval outpost in the heart of Florence. For the one week that CHI was in town, the halls of the old fort echoed with terms such as "Web 2.0," "Research methodologies" …a mere blink of an eye in it’s 500 year existence. Read what SAP Ux colleague Janaki Kumar has to report from the conference.
• Book Review: Processing Reas and Fry's book about the Processing programming language and its applications for designers and artists comes in at a hefty 600 plus pages and includes a multitude of programming exercises and examples. Regrettably, I have no chance of reading this book and performing the exercises as well as my day-to-day work. So I have to concede that this review is based on scanning the pages to get an overview of the language and its applications. I also read some passages that especially attracted my interest, downloaded a Windows and Apple Macintosh version of the Processing programming environment, ran many of the examples provided with the environment.
• SAP's Presence at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy – A Photo Story SAP was a Champion Sponsor of the CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held from April 5 to 10, 2008 in Florence, Italy. As in the previous years, SAP had a recruiting booth and board. Here are a couple of photos showing the booth, life at the booth, SAP Ux participants in CHI panels, and more.