Visual Interaction Design is the first Special Interest Area within SIGCHI. A Special Interest Area (SIA) is a group with specialized interests in an area which falls within the boundaries of the larger CHI domain. SIAs have been discussed as a possibility within SIGCHI for some time but the Visual Interaction Design SIA is the first real application of this concept.
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