ACM ''Interactions'' magazine is a publication covering 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 is the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
(ACM), which has its headquarters in
New York City
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.
Bibliometrics
As of December 28, 2016:
* Citation Count: 6,906
* Downloads (cumulative): 1,404,167
* Downloads (12 Months): 98,227
* Downloads (6 Weeks): 12,567
History
First published in 1994, ''Interactions'' initially appeared quarterly, and moved to bi-monthly in 1996. Since 2000,
SIGCHI ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction has included a subscription to ''Interactions'' among its benefits of membership.
''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.
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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.][
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Editors
* 1994–1995 John Rheinfrank and Bill Hefley
* 1996 John Rheinfrank
* 1997–1998 ''Vacant''
* 1998–2004 Steven Pemberton
* 2005–2007 Jonathan Arnowitz and Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
* 2008–2010 Richard Anderson
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and Jon Kolko
* 2011–2016 Ron Wakkary and Erik Stolterman
* 2016–2019 Simone Barbosa and Gilbert Cockton
* 2020–2023 Daniela Rosner, Alex Taylor, and
* 2023– Elizabeth Churchill and Mikael Wiberg
References
External links
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History of SIGCHI to 1996
includes interviews with past editors.
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Computer magazines published in the United States
Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Association for Computing Machinery magazines
Magazines established in 1994
Magazines published in New York City
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