Basic research symposium

The Basic Research Symposium is a special event with a seven-year history at CHI. It is a hybrid between a mini-conference and a workshop that presents an opportunity for researchers from different disciplines to share their visions by exchanging new developments and insights from their own fields. The goal of the Symposium is to provide an interactive forum to promote and enhance scientific discussions of developing research issues and areas. It has been central to the BRS to encourage the presentation of early-stage basic research to colleagues for informed feedback and critical review.The BRS draws together people with different backgrounds and research disciplines as well as different approaches to CHI practices. The attendees who come from academics and industry are engaged in research and development of CHI and represent many different disciplines such as CHI, computer science, psychology, communications, industrial design, art, history, graphics, anthropology, biology and many others.The symposium has always taken a broad view of "basic research", defining it to include research methods, and systems. Reports on novel applications that advance our scientific understanding are welcome.