The CHI '95 ConferenceElectronicPublication Introduction to an Experiment Robert Mack, LinnMarks, Dave Collinsand Keith Instone Introduction In the spring of 1994, the CHI '95 Conference Committee decided to produce an electronic Conference Proceedings and Companion, to be delivered on CD-ROM. 1 The CD-ROM version of the Proceedings and Companion were delivered to attendees of the CHI '95 Conference. Soon after the conference, the fourth author created the World Wide Web, or "Web" version based on the CD-ROM contents, which is accessible via: http://www.acm.org/in directories/sigchi/chi95/ Electronic/chi95cd.htm. This report describes the rationale and development process for the CD-ROM, and introduces the ACM/SIGCHI experiment in electronic, Web-based Conference publication. We assume the reader is familiar with the World Wide Web, HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language used to create Web documents, and the interest in academic and corporate circles, among others, in Web-based electronic publishing. The Web is an hypertextual (actually hypermedia) interface to the Internet, where information is represented in the form ofhyperlinked documents (Web pages) containing text, graphics and hyperlinks. The Web realizes a vision of world-wide electronic 1. and hyperlinked information that began with Vannevar Bush in 1945 (Bush, 1945), and was later articulated in more contemporary terms by
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