ONE VISUAL DESIGNER'SPERSPECTIVE ON INTERCHI'93 ANDY CARGILE I N T E R C H I ' 9 3 - - t h e first combined European I N T E R A C T and American S I G - C H I conference--was for me very much like Amsterdam itself: extremely open-minded and eye-opening. I learned as much from the many colleagues I talked to as from the actual material itself, which seemed to be a fairly even combination of theory and practice, of researchers and practitioners, of the very detailed to the very broad in concept, and of the useful and the less useful. I spent a good deal of time talking with colleagues from various countries and found a wonderful diversity of perspective. In addition to becoming absorbed in the many sexy concepts and new ideas of the more future-oriented material and presentations, I had many substantial discussions with others responsible for making "vision" a reality in a practical way on a day to day basis. As with any C H I Conference, there is a lot more under the surface than I have room to comment on here. Once again, there are many very
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