Interactions Magazine available online
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 by Kevin MakicePutting People First recently suggested it, and coincidentally it just came true: Interactions is now available online. At least, the January-February issue is, at the moment.
According to Scott Delman, ACM Group Publisher:
ACM is pleased to announce a new innovation for subscribers to interactions, the leading magazine publication for the Human Computer Interactions community. As from the January-February 2008 issue, ACM will be offering a digital edition of each issue of the magazine as an added benefit to subscribers. This new offering is provided in addition to the current print edition of the magazine and articles posted in the ACM Digital Library. The magazine’s new digital edition will serve as an additional service that will enable members to view a true digital representation of the entire print magazine from cover to cover in an easy to use digital format.
The “added benefit to subscribers” part may be an indication that ACM plans or at least reserves the right to pull the online version under the account firewall. For the time being, the images and navigation are a nice way to read the content assembled by editors Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko.
I was particularly interested in Steve Portigal’s rant on personas, a continual point of debate in HCI. A very diverse range of global perspectives, including a rather insightful Gary Marsden.
