Editorial: TOCHI turns twenty
Editorial: TOCHI turns twenty
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社论：TOCHI 二十岁了
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2014
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Shumin Zhai
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Shumin Zhai
本期纪念ACM计算机-人交互会刊(TOCHI)出版20周年。我想借此机会庆祝并简要回顾一下Tochi期刊的状况。过去20年，人机交互(HCI)领域的发展令人振奋，值得庆祝。在信息技术行业需求的推动下，该领域正在经历快速增长。在过去20年里，从万维网和数字社交网络上的知识发现到智能移动设备的产品和服务从根本上改变了工作和日常生活，所有这些都以关键的用户体验创新为轴心。如今，领先的公司雇佣了大量的交互设计师、用户体验研究人员和人机交互研究科学家，作为他们整个工程团队的重要成员。产品经理、软件工程师和公司高管也将大量精力投入到用户体验设计和开发上。作为一门学术学科，人机界面在毕业生数量、学术项目、研究中心和出版物方面也迅速增长。例如，在过去的一年里，一年一度的CHI会议收到了2000多份意见书。Tochi是ACM以学科为基础的核心期刊之一，在下载量和引文量方面一直位居ACM期刊前列。主要受该领域增长的推动，但也是对Tochi编委会近年来采取的许多措施和努力的回应，Tochi提交和发表的论文数量迅速增长。自从我在2009年秋季开始担任Tochi的主编(EIC)以来，Tochi的年度投稿和发表的论文在2013年都翻了一番，分别达到174篇和32篇。在每一年，我们都申请并获得ACM的批准，将Tochi的页面预算增加约100页，目前设定为每卷/年950页。从2013年开始，Tochi还将出版频率从每季度增加到每两个月一次。每年出版6期而不是4期，Tochi可以更快地发表更多论文。它还使我们能够更容易地发布特刊，而不会阻止定期提交太长时间。一份期刊的质量和速度在很大程度上取决于其编辑委员会。Tochi一直有一个强大的编委会，在过去的几年里，随着投稿量的增长，它逐渐扩大了。新的助理编辑是根据各种考虑任命的。通常，他们是(1)一个或多个人机界面领域的知名领导者；(2)知识渊博、有洞察力和公正的评论家，他们不让自己的兴趣、议程或品味影响他们的期刊编辑；(3)致力于根据时间表定期进行及时审查的编辑；以及(4)新编辑，他们要么改进杂志编辑能力相对于当前提交流的薄弱领域，要么代表Tochi论文提交的预期增长领域。担任Tochi副主编是一项严肃而又永不停歇的承诺，我感谢这些编辑的奉献精神、专业知识和智慧领导力。我特别要感谢Jeff Nichols，他从我的EIC任期开始就担任Tochi的信息总监，并承担了Tochi的许多运营职责。
This issue marks the 20th anniversary of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). I’d like to take this opportunity to celebrate and briefly review the state of the TOCHI journal. The growth of the human-computer interaction (HCI) field over the past 20 years has been exciting and worth celebrating. Fueled by the demand of the information technology industry, the field has been experiencing rapid growth. Products and services ranging from knowledge discovery on the World Wide Web and digital social networks to smart mobile devices have fundamentally transformed work and everyday life in the past two decades, all pivoting on key user experience innovations. Leading companies today employ a large number of interaction designers, user experience researchers, and HCI research scientists as crucial members of their overall engineering workforce. Product managers, software engineers, and company executives also devote a significant portion of attention to user experience design and development. HCI as an academic discipline has also rapidly grown in the number of graduates, academic programs, research centers, and publications. For example, the annual CHI conference received more than 2,000 submissions this past year. TOCHI is one of the core discipline–based journals of the ACM and consistently ranks among top ACM journals in terms of the number of downloads and citations. Primarily driven by the growth of the field, but also in response to many measures and efforts taken by the TOCHI editorial board in recent years, TOCHI has seen rapid growth in the number of submitted and published papers. Since the beginning of my first term as TOCHI’s editor-in-chief (EiC) in the fall of 2009, TOCHI’s annual submissions and published papers have both approximately doubled to 174 and 32, respectively, in 2013. In each of these years, we have applied and gained approval from the ACM for an increase of about 100 pages in TOCHI’s page budget, currently set at 950 pages per volume/year. Starting in 2013, TOCHI also increased its publication frequency from quarterly to bimonthly. With six instead of four issues per year, TOCHI can publish more papers at a faster pace. It also enables us to publish special issues more easily without blocking regular submissions for too long. A journal’s quality and speed largely depend on its editorial board. TOCHI has always had a strong editorial board, and it has gradually expanded with the growth in submission volume in the past few years. New associate editors are appointed based on various considerations. Typically, they are (1) well-known leaders in one or more fields of HCI; (2) knowledgeable, insightful, and fair-minded critics who do not let their own interests, agendas, or taste in topics bias their journal editing; (3) editors committed to timely reviews on a regular basis following a timeline; and (4) new editors who can either improve the weak areas of the journal’s editorial capacity relative to the current submission stream or represent an expected growth area of TOCHI paper submissions. Serving as a TOCHI associate editor is a serious and nonstop commitment, and I thank these editors for their dedication, expertise, and intellectual leadership. I particularly want to thank Jeff Nichols, who has served as TOCHI’s information director since the beginning of my EiC tenure and has taken on many of the operational responsibilities of TOCHI.