HCI Education Alan Dix, Editor chi-Bulletin-Education@acm.org special times Writing this last column in SIGCHI Bulletin I started to look back over the past columns I've written, perhaps to bring out themes. I'd not realised how long though, more than three years. However all the while, and I'd guess the other writers for this issue will feel similarly, there seemed an almost irrelevance in writing, at this moment, about HCI when almost certainly within the next few weeks there will be war, death and the weakening of the rule of international law. In fact as I thought back over the issues from the past three years I kept finding echoes and reflections of these more momentous events. I think these will emerge as I write. One thing I must say is how much I have learnt over these past three years. Well, I hope I have learnt in all aspects of life, but in particular I mean learnt from writing this column: learnt both in terms of content and about the process of writing itself. This ability to learn has of course figured several times in past columns and I ended my very first column with the words "what
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