CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

CHI-SA 2005 will be held in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. Our conference theme focuses on the challenge for technology to make people feel safe, and to support a safe community worldwide and specifically in Southern Africa. As a community of professionals in interactive systems design, we are responsible for creating and shaping a “safe” future. Recent international and local events have contributed to many people being scared of technology. However, technology should be designed in such a way that it reinforces a sense of community and allows people to feel at ease with the use of technology. One of the major challenges to the HCI community in

Southern Africa is developing complex interactive information systems, which can be used by our unique user population. Hence, CHI-SA 2005 will focus on the interactive relationships between Safety, Technology and Community.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote address by Aaron Marcus: A full-day tutorial presented by Aaron Marcus on cross-cultural UI design. Closing keynote address by Mthunzi Mdwaba, CSSA IT Personality of the Year 2004 and Chairman of IT-Torque

More about Aaron Marcus

Mr. Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University , in 1967 he became the world's first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. Mr. Marcus has written over 100 articles and written/co-written five books, including Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (1990) (with Ron Baecker), Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces (1992), and The Cross-GUI Handbook for Multiplatform User Interface Design (1994), all published by Addison-Wesley. For the last five years, Mr. Marcus has turned his attention to the Web, helping the industry to learn about good user interface and information visualization design, providing guidelines for globalization/localization, and focusing on challenges of "baby faces" (small displays for consumer information appliances) of ubiquitous devices and cross-cultural communication.

More about Mthunzi Mdwaba

Mr Mthunzi Mdwaba is the Executive Chairman of Torque-IT, South Africa, a company dedicated to Computer Technical Training Solutions. 

Leading Torque-IT to three nominations in the 2003 African Achievers ’Awards – Creative Use of ICT in Education (Won), Top Black ICT Company (Ist Runner up) and Top Individual in ICT (Ist Runner up to Sizwe Nxasana, CEO Telkom)Leading Torque-IT to Microsoft Partner of the year (2004) and Oracle Network Partner (2004)

Chosen as the Icon man by Divas Africa

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