An interactive presentation is an ideal format for con-veying industrial and practical experience to the rest of the community. Accordingly, we invite experiences from specific design cases, reports on how specific methods are applied and modified in practice, etc. We also invite presentation of ongoing work and preliminary results, by experienced academics as well as young researchers. NordiCHI 2002 acknowledges the innovative and inspirational power of fine art by introducing aesthetic demonstrations as a new submission category for investigations into how artistic expression and praxis affect perspectives on interfaces, contexts and design. The computer interface has developed from merely supporting work into a broader cultural interface competing with and even replacing the book, the gallery wall, the cinema screen, etc.
Traditional functionalism fails in relation to many new applications.
At the same time, traditional application areas may benefit from the inspiration from how digital forms are articulated in artistic expression. Accordingly, digital arts challenge the way we understand the computer, and the relation between form and contents at the interface. We solicit submissions of artistic computer-based artefacts, accompanied by a short paper describing the artefact and its contribution to HCI discourse. Submissions will be reviewed from aesthetic criteria as well as from how they contribute to the ongoing understanding of human-computer interaction. The Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students in HCI the opportunity to present and discuss their work with each other as well as a number of experienced researchers.