Opening SIGCHI to the world

Abstract

Local SIGs are a real growth area for SIGCHI. Local SIGs started early in S IGCHI ' s history as local groups formed to help organize our early CHI conferences. BayCHI in the San Francisco area and Greater Boston SIGCHI are examples. Currently, SIGCHI has about 40 local SIGs that are either fully functioning or in the process of forming. We hesitate to state an exact number, since we write these columns three months in advance of when they appear and the number of local SIGs will very likely increase in this time!