First Student ACM SIGCHI Chartered at the University of Waterloo in Canada.(founding members: students Henry Chen and Farouk Meghji)(Industry Trend or Event)

The University of Waterloo Student ACM SIGCHI Chapter was officially chartered last February and is the first student chapter affiliated with SIGCHI. Its founding members are students Henry Chen and Farouk Meghji. In an interview with ACMember-Net, Chair Henry Chen discussed the impetus for starting a chapter. "Last summer we realized that there were many different faculties at Waterloo involved in human-computer interaction (HCI) issues but there wasn't a formal organization for communicating between these groups. Then, in the fall, we heard that ACM was interested in starting a SIGCHI Student Chapter. We started out with informal gatherings, and once we felt we had enough …