One visual designer's perspective on INTERCHI'93
Andy Cargile · ACM SIGCHI Bulletin · 1993
INTERCHI'93---the first combined European INTERACT and American SIG-CHI conference---was for me very much like Amsterdam itself: extremely open-minded and eye-opening. I learned as much from the many colleagues I talked to as from the actual material itself, which seemed to be a fairly even combination of theory and practice, of researchers and practitioners, of the very detailed to the very broad in concept, and of the useful and the less useful. I spent a good deal of time talking with colleagues from various countries and found a wonderful diversity of perspective. In addition to becoming absorbed in the many sexy concepts and new ideas of the more future-oriented material and presentations, I had many substantial discussions with others responsible for making "vision" a reality in a practical way on a day to day basis.