Links to information about upcoming conferences of interest:

ACM Conference on Universal Usability - CUU 2000
November 16-17, 2000, Washington, DC, USA

We seek work in any area whose aim is to enable the widest range of users to successfully use technology for information, communications, entertainment, education, e-commerce, civic systems, and government services.

Challenges include the diversity of users (experts & novices, old & young, educated & illiterate, disabled, forgotten, those in ill health, etc.); the wide range of technology (e.g.; 100 to 1 ratios in processor and network speeds), and the gap between what users know and what they need to know. We are interested in research, new systems and technologies, empirical evaluations of systems, policy suggestions, and systems that support community activities. A diverse set of participants is expected including technologists, policy makers, advocates, users, and researchers.

• Universal Usability Guide
  A website under construction to supplement ACM's Conference on Universal Usability. "We have created a taxonomy of universal usability and have begun to populate the taxonomy with links to relevant web sites."

Annual SIGCHI Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2001
March 31 - April 5, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA

Designing Interactive Systems - CHI 2001
August 17-19, 2000 New York, New York

We will discuss the process of designing interactive systems in the context of real design practice.

HCI 2000
September 5-8, 2000 University of Sunderland's St. Peter's Campus, England.

Sponsored by the British HCI Group.

HCI 2000 will cover all main areas of HCI research and practice, but will focus on usability engineering for e-business. While HCI approaches have penetrated many application areas, bringing clear benefits over the last decade, electronic business will nail down usability as an essential design goal. The HCI community will be expected to respond with ever-improved methods, techniques and design approaches that ensure that usability is taken seriously from conception through design and development to installation and operation. Submissions on all areas of HCI are invited, but we strongly encourage those addressing usability issues for the internet and new media, especially from practitioners. Usability is important for all web-based services, be they public or private.

HCI 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, August 5-10, 2001
Paper Submission deadline: November 5, 2000
Poster Submission deadline: May 15, 2001

The conference objective is to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI.

Human Factors on the Web
2001 TBD

The purpose of these conferences is to provide a forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable.

2001 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 14-16 January, 2001
Paper Submission deadline: July 3, 2000

IUI 2001 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.

6th ERCIM Workshop on "User Interfaces for All"
Florence, Italy, 25-26 October 2000

European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. The vision of "User Interfaces for All" advocates the proactive realisation of the design for all principle in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, and involves the development of user interfaces to interactive applications and telematic services, which provide universal access and quality in use to potentially all users. This user population includes people with different cultural, educational, training and employment background, novice and experienced computer users, the very young and the elderly, and people with different types of disabilities, in various interaction contexts and scenarios of use.

67th IFLA Council and General Conference
August 16-25, 2001 Boston, Massachusetts.

Theme: Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age Librarians, as knowledge workers, collect, transmit and preserve recorded messages. They organize and manage the storage, retrieval and use of information. They provide personal assistance in tailoring information services for people and institutions. Librarians analyze, evaluate and synthesize the information they collect to create new forms of knowledge. The technology changes, but the mission endures.

INTERACT Conference
Tokyo, Japan, July 9-13, 2001

International conference on human computer interaction. Sponsored by IFIP.

UIST 2000
San Diego, California November 5-8 2000

The 13th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI and in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT.