Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Special Interest Group at CHI'91: "User Interfaces for GIS" Message-ID: <72398@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 22 Apr 91 20:50:51 GMT Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 63 Nntp-Posting-Host: autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu Special Interest Group at the CHI'91 conference in New Orleans on USER INTERFACES FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) Tentatively scheduled for the first afternoon session of Tuesday, April 30. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) has announced a new Research Initiative on "User Interfaces for Geographic Information Systems." Initiative 13 will address the design and implementation of user interfaces for GIS and other geographical software packages. This Special Interest Group will provide an opportunity for persons interested in the topic to get more information, meet initiative leaders and take part in the process of shaping a research agenda. It will be held in preparation for the initiative's "Specialist Meeting" to be held in Buffalo, June 22-26. (Attendance at the Specialist Meeting will be by invitation only, but some slots are still open.) If you will attend CHI'91 and are interested in this Special Interest Group, please contact one of the organizers below or watch for announcements at the conference. Werner Kuhn GIS SIG Organizer NCGIA, Surveying Engineering University of Maine 107 Boardman Hall Orono, ME 04469 Tel. (207) 581 2174 Fax. (207) 581 2206 kuhn@mecan1.maine.edu David M. Mark Initiative 13 co-Leader NCGIA, Geography State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14261 Tel. (716) 636 3835 Fax. (716) 636 2329 geodmm@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Background Information ---------------------- NCGIA Research Initiatives are multi-site, multidisciplinary research projects of about 2 years' duration. After a planning phase, Initiatives begin with a "Specialist Meeting", an intensive workshop of 3 or 4 days' duration at which NCGIA personnel and specialists from other academic units, from government agencies, and from industry meet to determine and prioritize researchable questions and to establish a research agenda for the NCGIA and others. The NCGIA itself is a consortium led by the University of California, Santa Barbara, with partner inistitutions at Buffalo and Maine. The NCGIA has basic research as its primary mission, and is supported primarily by the National Science Foundation and by the member institutions. For more information about NCGIA in general, or about this and other Research Initiatives, contact one of the above addresses.