The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI). Diverse members of the global HCI community meet at the CHI conference to share the excitement of discovery and invention, to make and strengthen professional relationships and friendships, and to tackle real world problems. Come to CHI 2002, and be part of laying the foundations of our discipline and identifying the challenges yet to be solved.

Information about the CHI 2002 conference theme and special areas, a welcome letter from the conference co-chairs, and details about about ACM and SIGCHI are available.

Publications
The CHI 2002 Conference Proceedings is the main archival publication of the conference. The proceedings serves as a key reference document for researchers and practitioners in the field. The CHI 2002 Extended Abstracts contains summary descriptions of many submissions and presentations. The CHI 2002 Video Program contains all accepted video materials, including video figures and video demonstrations. All publications will be provided to all conference registrants and will be sold by ACM after the conference.

CHI 2002 is committed to maintaining high quality conference publications. The conference reserves the right to publish only high quality submissions that meet the conference's formatting standards. Note that CHI expects its archival material to contain previously unpublished work. Except in extremely unusual circumstances, we will not accept papers whose content significantly overlaps with work presented or submitted elsewhere.