,,,, ,,,, ,,,,, Trip Report EWHCI "94: The Fourth East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction St. Petersburg, Russia, 2-6 August 1994 Blaine Price, Brad Blumenthal, Laura Leventhal Introduction The fourth annual East-West Human Computer Interaction conference was quite a surprise, at least for veterans of the earlier EWHCI conferences. The first author attended the first conference (which was held in Moscow the week before the coup which saw the break-up of the old USSR) and served as logistics chair for the second conference (also held in St. Petersburg) and he found this most recent conference showed unbelievable improvements in the overall organization, location, and technical quality of the presentations. Logistics problems which would have taken hours to solve in previous years were either non-existent or taken care of behind the scenes by Juri Gornostaev and his team from the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI). St. Petersburg itself has also become a world-class city and was hosting the Goodwill Games during the conference period~ None of the problems of 2 years ago were encountered as restaurants were plentiful, shops were wellstocked and the media hype about crime proved to be unfounded. The conference itself was actually
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