Call For Nominations: Editor-In-Chief ACM Transactions On Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

The term of the current editor-in-chief (EIC) of TOCHI (http://tochi.acm.org/) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EIC.

Nominations, including self nominations, are invited for a three-year term as TOCHI EIC, beginning as soon as the position can be filled. The EIC appointment may be renewed once, after review. This is an entirely voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate administrative support.

The EIC is responsible for maintaining the highest editorial quality, for setting technical direction of the papers published in TOCHI, and for maintaining a reasonable pipeline of articles for publication. He/she has final say on acceptance of papers, size of the Editorial Board, and appointment of Associate Editors. The EIC is expected to adhere to the commitments expressed in the ACM Publishing Rights and Responsibilities Policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/RightsResponsibilities). For more information about the role of the EIC, see (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation/).

Nominations should include a brief statement of why the nominee should be considered. As CHI is a multidisciplinary field and it covers fast evolving research topics, the nominee should comment on plans to help TOCHI cope with the evolving CHI research topics, to possibly bootstrap new CHI-journals from TOCHI, and to share any future plan for TOCHI. Self-nominations are encouraged. The deadline for submitting nominations is the 31st of July, 2009, but nominations will be accepted until the position is filled.

Please send all nominations to the nominating committee chair, Dan Olsen (olsen@cs.byu.edu).

The search committee members are: