SIGHInt: Special Interest Group for Human-Computer Integration

Human-Computer Integration (HInt) is a growing paradigm within HCI which seeks to understand how humans can, and already are, merging with computational machines. HInt's recent inception and evolution has seen much discussion in a variety of symposiums, workshops, and publications for HCI. This has enabled a democratized and decentralised emergence of its core concepts. While this has allowed for rapid growth in our understanding of HInt, there is some discrepancy in how the proponents of this movement might describe its principles, motivations, definitions, and ultimate goals, with many offshoot concepts of HInt beginning to emerge. SIGHint aims to provide a platform to facilitate high level discussion and collation of information between researchers and designers seeking to learn from and contribute to the development of Human-Computer Integration. It is our intention that through this SIG we may better understand how new and emerging, diverging ideas, and perspectives within Human-Computer Integration relate to each other, ultimately facilitating a mapping of the paradigm and a synthesis of its concepts.

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Human-Computer Integration (HInt) is a growing paradigm within HCI that seeks to explore how humans merge with computational machines. While this movement has led to a rapid growth in understanding HInt, there are discrepancies among proponents regarding principles, motivations, definitions, and ultimate goals, with various offshoot concepts emerging. SIGHint aims to provide a platform for high-level discussion and information collation, facilitating a better understanding of the relationship between new and diverging ideas and perspectives within Human-Computer Integration.