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Professional Societies Dealing with Computer Human Interaction

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction is the world's largest association of professionals who work in the research and practice of computer-human interaction. An interdisciplinary group of computer scientists, software engineers, psychologists, interaction designers, graphic designers, sociologists, multi-media designers, and anthropologists, just to name some of the domains whose special expertise come to bear in this area. What brings them together is a shared understanding that designing useful and usable technology is an interdisciplinary process, and when done properly it has the power to transform persons' lives. SIGCHI has close to forty active local chapters across five continents, to promote local support networks for HCI professionals.
Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group Australia
Computer-Human Interaction is about people, computers and how they impact on each other. This HFESA Special Interest Group is the Australian reference point for people interested in designing interactions between people and devices.
IEEE Computer Society
The scope of the Society shall encompass all aspects of theory, design, practice, and application relating to computer and information processing science and technology.
The IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading membership organization dedicated to computer science and technology. Serving more than 60,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the trusted information, networking, and career-development source for a global community of technology leaders that includes researchers, educators, software engineers, IT professionals, employers, and students.
Interaction (BCS)
Founded in 1984, Interaction is a specialist HCI group of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Formerly known as The British HCI Group, Interaction is the longest-established and largest national group in Europe devoted to HCI. It provides an organisation for all those working on human-computer interaction - the analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of technologies for human use.

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