How many items should I have in my menus?" "What is interesting about the NeXT user interface? "
"If I am generating my own "look-and-feel," what can I us e from other systems? "
"What tools are available to help me generate user interfaces for a Sun underX? for a PC under Presentatio n Manager? for a Macintosh? "
How do I evaluate whether the user interface on my system is any good? "
"What are the real computer-human interaction problems i n industry that researchers should be addressing? "
"What would be a good PhD thesis topic in the area o f human-computer interaction? "
There is currently no journal or magazine that addresses these kinds of issues in a way that is of interest to bot h
researchers and practitioners . At its meeting in Boulder , Colorado in October, 1989, the SIGCHI Publication s Committee voted enthusiastically to investigate th e founding of a new magazine on computer-huma n interaction to address the area of interface design an d
implementation.' This article presents some thoughts abou t what this magazine might be like.
The new magazine would contain reports of new developments in both research and industry in th e
computer-human interface area . The topics to be covere d would be the same as those included at the annual SIGCHI