March 2000, Washington D.C., USA

Part I

1. Meetings Held and Scheduled

The sixteenth TC.13 meeting was held in Edinburgh, UK on 29th August, 1999. The seventeenth meeting will be held on 31st March - 1^st April, 2000 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

TC.13 membership has increased to 28 of the full IFIP Member Societies (see Appendix 1). New members are Prof. Janet Wesson, South Africa and Assoc. Prof. Clarisse de Souza, Brazil.

We still await notification of members to replace those previously appointed by the GA member societies for India and Singapore. It is of concern that the representatives from Canada (appointed in 1996) and Chile (appointed in 1990 and now a corresponding member) have been unable to attend any meetings since their appointment, although they normally send their apologies.

The principal activity in 1999 was the seventh IFIP TC.13 conference, INTERACT '99, hosted by the British Computer Society and organised by the British HCI Group, who handled everything with great enthusiasm, dedication and success. It was held in Edinburgh, U.K. 30^th August to 3^rd September, 1999. INTERACT '99 was one of IFIP TC.13's most successful INTERACTs for both the local and international HCI communities, with a total of 573 attendees from 34 countries. A full range of events was produced for the three day technical sessions of the conference programme: papers, posters, panels, laboratory overviews, professional practice and experience, videos and interactive experience. An exhibition was on display throughout the conference. Thirteen tutorials and eight workshops were presented in the first two days of the conference and proved to be very popular amongst participants. Two Doctoral Consortia attended by a total of 16 Ph. D. students from various countries were also very successful. The conference achieved a profit.

The INTERACT Proceedings were in two volumes. Volume 1 of the conference proceedings, containing 3 keynote, 77 refereed and 16 doctoral consortium papers, was published by IOS Press (707 pages), and Volume 2, containing 72 papers of all other conference tracks, plus all the tutorial and workshop summaries, was published by the British Computer Society on behalf of IFIP (236 pages).

TC.13 is very grateful to the IFIP DCSC Committee for granting funds (4000CHF) to assist 5 participants of developing countries in the African, Asian, Indian and South American regions to attend INTERACT. Five grantees were selected and were able to participate fully in the INTERACT event, much to their delight. Three of these grantees now represent their countries on TC.13. Requests for assistance for developing country participants were also made to UNESCO and the European Union. We are very disappointed that these requests were unsuccessful, as INTERACT is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction, and we had hoped to involve more developing countries in this most important aspect of IFIP TC.13's work.

The Brian Shackel Award was presented for the first time for the paper "The Beauty of Errors: Patterns of Error Correction in Desktop Speech Systems" by Dr. Christine Halverson, Daniel B. Horn, Dr. Clare-Marie Karat and Dr. John Karat (USA). The Award marks the significant contribution of Professor Brian Shackel (founding IFIP TC.13 Chairman) to the establishment of HCI as an international discipline and recognises the most outstanding contribution in the form of a refereed paper submitted to and delivered at each INTERACT Conference. The purpose is to draw attention to the need for a comprehensive human-centred approach in the design and use of information technology in which the human and social implications have been taken into account.

WG13.1 - Prof. Dr. Matthias Rauterberg, the WG13.1 chair, has been re-invigorating the working group, by the addition of 8 new members, and the resignation of 2 existing members. A very successful workshop was organised by WG13.1 at INTERACT '99 on "HCI"   Theory or Practice in Education.

WG13.2 - A well-attended workshop was held as part of the INTERACT '99 conference on the topic: How to Make User-Centred Design Usable..

WG13.3 - Prof. M. Noirhomme-Fraiture (WG13,3 Vice-chair) organised a highly successful workshop at INTERACT '99 on "Making Designers Aware of Existing Guidelines for Accessibility".

WG13.4 - see TC2 report on WG2.7 activities.

WG13.5 - a workshop was planned for INTERACT '99.

The INTERACT 2001 Conference Chairman will present a full report on progress to date at the next IFIP TC.13 meeting. Planning is proceeding well. The technical programme and organising committee members have been appointed and the Call for Participation brochure has just been printed and will be available on the INTERACT2001 website. Further details will be available after the next TC.13 meeting in Eindhoven.

The fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, APCHI 2000 is being held in Singapore from 28 November to 1 December, 2000. The Call for Participation has gone out and submissions requested by 30^th April, 2000. IFIP TC.13 has sponsored the biennial APCHI regional conference series from its start in 1996, as its importance should not be underestimated. It aims to share information in an area that is only just beginning to recognise HCI, and so increase HCI activity in the Asia-Pacific region.

See Appendix 3 for the Forward Plan of TC.13 Activities.

IFIP TC.13 is gaining a greater recognition for its work, especially through its very successful and highly regarded INTERACT conference series. The success of the Working Groups depends on a continuing programme of activities. With a regular plan for WGs to be involved in conducting workshops at INTERACT conferences, it is hoped that new WG members will be recruited and new activities planned. This is already beginning in WG13.1.

The attendance of TC.13 members at meetings is noted on the list below in Appendix 2.

Part II 2000 REPORT TO THE TECHNICAL ASSEMBLY

There are no matters to raise at the Technical Assembly.

Judy Hammond
Chairman, TC.13

COUNTRY 	SOCIETY 				    On Email 	TC.13 MEMBER

Australia 	Australian Computer Society 			Y 	Mrs J Hammond*
Austria 	Austrian Computer Society 			Y 	Dr M J Tauber
Belgium 	Federation des Associations 			Y 	Prof M Noirhomme-Fraiture
		Informatiques de Belgique 
Brazil 		Brazilian Computer Society 			Y 	Assoc. Prof. C. de Souza
Canada 		Canadian Information Processing Society 	Y 	Ms M F Laughton
Chile 		Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Informatica 	Y 	Prof J A Pino
China 		Chinese Institute of Electronics 		Y 	Prof. Z. Liu
Czech Rep. 	Czech Committee for Data Processing 		Y	Prof Ing V Matousek
Denmark 	Danish Federation for Information Processing 	Y 	Mr L Loevborg
Finland 	Finnish Information Processing Association 	Y 	Mr P Lehtio
France 		SEE 						Y 	to be announced
Germany 	Gesellschaft fur Informatik 			Y 	Prof P Gorny
Greece 		Greek Computer Society 				Y 	Prof J Darzentas
India 		Computer Society of India 				to be announced
Italy 		Italian Computer Society 			Y 	Dr. F Paterno
Japan 		Information Processing Society of Japan 	Y 	Prof M Kurosu
Netherlands 	Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica 	Y 	Dr G C van der Veer
Norway 		Norwegian Computer Society 			Y 	Mr S A Arnesen
Poland 		Polish Academy of Sciences 			Y 	Prof. J. Kulikowski
Portugal 	Associacao Portuguesa de Informatica 		Y 	Prof M R Gomes
Singapore 	Singapore Computer Society 			Y 	to be announced
South Africa 	The Computer Society of South Africa 		Y 	Prof. J. Wesson
Spain 		Federacion Espanola de 
		Sociedades de Informatica 			Y 	Prof J G-Abascal
Sweden 		Swedish International Federation for 		Y 	Mr L Oestreicher
		Information Processing
Switzerland 	Swiss Federation for Information Processing 	Y 	Dr M Rauterberg
U.K. 		British Computer Society 			Y 	Prof B Shackel
USA-based 	A.C.M. 						Y 	Dr. J. Karat
USA-based 	I.E.E.E. C.S. 					Y 	Dr. N. Gershon
AFFILIATE 	International Association 			Y 	Mr A J Westlake
		for Statistical Computing (IASC)

CHAIRMAN TC.13 							Y 	Mrs J Hammond*
WG 13.1 	Chairman 					Y 	Prof M. Rauterberg
WG 13.2 	Chairman 					Y 	Prof A Sutcliffe
WG 13.3 	Chairman 					Y 	Mr. Geoff Busby
WG 2.7(13.4) 	Chairman 					Y 	Mr. R. Kazman
WG13.5 		Chairman 					Y 	Prof. C. Johnson

MEMBER 	  	3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  1  Cambridge UK 1.9.90

Australia  	P  P  P  A  P  P  P  P   P   P   P   P   P   P   2  Stuttgart D 6.9.91
Austria 	P  P  P  P  P  P  A  P   P   A   A   X   A   A   3  Monterey US 3.5.92
Belgium 	-  P  P  A  P  A  P  P   P   P   P   P   A   A   4  Paris F 5.9.92
Bulgaria 	A  X  X  X  X  X  X  -   -   -   -
Canada 		-  -  -  -  -  -  -  A   X   A   X   A   X   A   5  Amsterdam N 25.4.93
Chile 		A  A  X  A  A  A  X  X   A   A   X   P   A   A   6  Milan I 12.9.93
China 		-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   -   A   X   -   -   P   7  Boston US 24.4.94
Czech Rep. 	A  P  P  A  A  P  A  A   P   A   P   P   A   P   8  Hamburg G 28.8.94
Denmark 	A  A  P  P  A  P  P  A   P   A   P   P   P   A   9  Lillehammer 25.6.95
Finland 	A  A  P  P  P  P  P  P   P   A   X   P   P   A  10  Vancouver C 14.4.96
France 		P  P  A  A  X  X  X  X   X   X   X   -   -   -  11  London UK 6-7.12.96
Germany 	Al A  Al A  Al A  X  P   P   A   P   P   P   A  12  Sydney Aus 14.7.97
Greece 		-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   P   A   P   P   A   A  13  Amsterdam 18-21.2.98
India 		A  A  A  X  A  P  A  A   A   X   X   -   -   -  14  Web 8-30.11.98
Italy 		-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   P   P   P   P   P   P  15  San Sebastian 12-13.2.99
Japan 		A  X  X  X  P  P  P  A   X   X   P   A   P   P  16  Edinburgh, UK 29.8.99
Netherlands 	P  P  P  P  P  P  P  P   P   A   P   P   A   A  17  Eindhoven 31.3-1.4.00
Norway 		P  P  P  P  A  P  P  A   P   P   P   P   P   P
Poland 		-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   -   -   A   X   X   P
Portugal 	-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   A   A   A   A   P   A
Singapore 	A  A  A  A  A  A  P  X   X   X   X   -   -   -
Spain 		P  P  P  P  P  A  P  A   P   P   P   P   P   P
Sweden 		A  X  X  X  X  X  X  -   P   P   P   P   P   P
Switzerland 	A  A  X  X  X  X  -  -   P   P   P   P   P   P
U.K. 		P  P  P  P  P  P  P  P   P   P   P   P   P   P
USA ACM 	-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   -   -   -   -   -   P
USA IEEE 	-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -   -   -   -   -   -   P
AFILIATE 	A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A   P   A   A   P   A   P (IASC)
WG 13.1 	P  A  Al P  P  P  P  P   P   Al  P   P   P   P
WG 13.2 	P  P  P  P  P  A  P  P  P+1  P   P   P   P   P
WG 13.3 	   P  P  A  P  A  P  P   P   P   P   P   P   A
WG 2.7(13.4) 	   -  P  P  P  Al P  Al  Al  A   A   X   Al  A
WG13.5 						     P   A   A

Activity 				Location 		Date

1. WG13.2 	Business meeting and 	London, U.K. 		13 - 14 March, 2000
		Workshop Patterns in HCI

2. TC.13 	Business Meeting 	Eindhoven, Netherlands 	31st March 2000
		Strategic Workshop 				1st April, 2000

3. WG13.1 	Business meeting 	The Hague, Netherlands 	6th April, 2000 

4. WG13.5 	Business meeting 	NASA AMES, USA 		t.b.a., 2000
		and Workshop

5. TC.13 	APCHI2000 		Singapore 		November, 2000
		Asia-Pacific HCI Conference

6. TC.13 	INTERACT 2001 		Japan 			9 - 13 July, 2001