Student Advice

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Here are some publications and conferences that an HCI or HCI-SEC graduate student should be reading. Subscribe to them or add them to your bookmarks.

1 Web sites and Blogs
2 Mailing Lists
3 Conferences
4 Journals
5 MEng, AUP, MS, and PhD Thesis Proposals

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Web sites and Blogs

Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen's web newsletter about usability.

HCI Bibliography

Slashdot

Risks Digest (also known as comp.risks)

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Mailing Lists

ACM mailing lists: subscribing to CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS and CHI-STUDENTS are strongly recommended.

HCISEC, a Yahoo mailing list for researchers in usability & security.

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Conferences

CHI. Biggest and most prestigious HCI conference, regularly attracts 1500-2000 attendees from computer science, psychology, social science, and design. Paper deadline in September, conference in April. Multiple tracks, multiple submission categories (papers, short papers, posters, demos, doctoral consortium). Highly selective (15-20% acceptance rate). [http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?linked=1&part=series&idx=SERIES260&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=44435313&CFTOKEN=68812759 Past CHI proceedings at ACM Digital Library.</a>

UIST, the User Interface Software and Technology conference. Attracts the computer science segment of CHI, typically 150-200 people, single track. Papers typically describe systems, new interaction techniques, toolkits. Paper deadline in April, conference in October or November. Just as selective as CHI (20% acceptance). Past UIST proceedings at ACM Digital Library.

IUI, the Intelligent User Interfaces conference. Attracts computer scientists working at the intersection of HCI and AI. Typically 150-200 people, single track. Papers cover learning interfaces, user modeling. Paper deadline in September, conference in January. Past IUI proceedings at ACM Digital Library.

Ubicomp, the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Paper deadline in March, conference in September.

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