ACM interactions magazine serves a number of related worlds, offering content to educate and inspire designers, providing viewpoints related to culture and anthropology, describing innovation and creation in a business environment, and continually investigating the relationship between people, experiences, and technology. Its publisher: ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

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First published in 1994, interactions initially appeared quarterly but moved to bi-monthly in 1996. Since 2000, SIGCHI

SIGCHI

SIGCHI is the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction, one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups....

 -- ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction -- has included a subscription to interactions among its benefits of membership.

ACM interactions is the third largest ACM publication, and receives the second most citations, according to an article by new editors Wakkary and Stolterman in SIGCHI 2011.

Structure

Each issue contains a cover story, regarded as the keynote article. Forums are published three times a year by specific Forum Editors, contributing a perspective such as sustainability or public policy. Blogspots are opinionated personal pieces, The Demo Hour segments represent a glimpse at a specific project, and Day in the Lab articles feature labs across the globe.

Finally, the majority of each issue is contained in (typically) 5-6 feature articles, describing issues of general importance to the HCI community.

Editors

• 1994-1995 John Rheinfrank and Bill Hefley
• 1996 John Rheinfrank
• 1997-1998 Vacant
• 1998-2004 Steven Pemberton
  Steven Pemberton
  Steven Pemberton is one of the developers of the ABC programming language and of the Views system.He is chair of the W3C XHTML2 and XForms Working Groups and also member of RDFa Taskforce....
  
  
• 2005-2007 Jonathan Arnowitz and Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
• 2008-2010 Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko
  Jon Kolko
  Jon Kolko is the founder and director of Austin Center for Design, a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship....
  
  
• 2011 Ron Wakkary and Erik Stolterman

External links

• ACM
• SIGCHI
• interactions
• History of SIGCHI to 1996 includes interviews with past editors.