Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction

On behalf of the conference committee, I welcome you to The Eleventh International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Interaction (CHINZ 2010). Just days after completing a final draft for the journal Human-Computer Interaction, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself last week looking at the fantastic work that has been carried out by many New Zealand colleagues and overseas friends. Many proponents of research into human-use technologies would argue that only highly industrialised countries can afford to sustain high levels of research quality. They would claim that a large manufacturing base is required to support research themes in human-computer interaction, addressing new forms of interaction technologies and applications. However, anyone attending this conference will have cause to doubt this assertion. Many in the HCI field would have to acknowledge CHINZ 2010 as a significant forum, serving as it does as the setting for presentations by many of New Zealand's most creative researchers. I personally believe that the CHINZ conference has provided an excellent forum for all those who have been involved in Computer-Human Interaction over the last eleven years here in New Zealand. It has provided a unique opportunity for all of us not only to see what is going on both in New Zealand and around the world with regard to human interaction with technology, but also to reflect on our current and future directions in studying this diverse field of research. Hence the primary focus of this conference is on closing the gap between vision and reality so that the full benefits of our work are realised.