Join us in San Diego…

A Turning Point in IT

November14/15,2008 | San Diego, CA

General Chairs: AEleen Frisch, Exponential Eser Kandogan, IBM Research

Program Chairs: Wayne Lutters, UMBC Jim Thornton, PARC Mustapha Mouloua, UCF

CHIMIT is the leading forum for discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and technology. Join the discussion on issues, solutions, and research drawing upon fields such as human-computer interaction, human factors, computer systems, and management and service sciences.

Steering Committee:
Stephen Barley, Stanford
David Blank-Edelman,
Northeastern
Jack Carroll, Penn State
Alva Couch, Tufts
Patricia Jones, NASA Ames
Rob Kolstad
Paul Maglio, IBM Research
Tom Sheridan, MIT

Workspace Studies

ß Ethnographic studies of IT work in context

Processes and Practices ß Development and use of processes in

IT

Organizational Knowledge
ß Studies of collaboration and
coor dination

Design ß Design of human-centered IT

systems

Tools and Techniques
ß Visualizations of complex system
behavior

Automation ß Automation/Policy languages ß Human interfaces to automation

Plenary Talks

I Got My Jet Pack and I'm Still Not Happy David Blank-Edelman, Northeastern

Publicity

George Engelbeck, Microsoft Nate Gunderson, Microsoft

Human-Centered Design: Finding the Sweet Spot Among the Many Stakeholders in the Design of a Complex System William B. Rouse, Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology

October 13
Advance Registration Ends
November 13
Web Registration Ends

Panels

Designing for Complexity: New Approaches to System Administration UI's Leading UI architects and designers from IBM, Microsoft, HP, Salesforce.com, Oracle, and BMC.

www.chimit08.org