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We invite you to the 1st ACM Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction for
Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT), in cooperation with USENIX.
 The technical program spans a wide range of topics related to the
challenges of managing today's complex IT ecosystems, from guidelines for
tools to knowledge sharing and communication, to usability and security.
Our goal is to bring together researchers, practioners, and designers from
a range of fields to discuss and advance new approaches to system design
and management.

In addition to paper presentations (listed below) there will be a poster
session, a plenary speech by Stephen R. Barley of Stanford University on
IT in the Wild, a panel on automation in management, and a dinner
reception.

CHIMIT takes place over a day and a half on March 30-31, 2007 at the
Marriott Cambridge Hotel in Boston MA, USA. Registration is now open on
our website at

http://chimit.cs.tufts.edu/

Key Dates:
Advance (discount) Registration Ends: February 27, 2007
Web Registration Ends: March 30, 2007
Conference on-site registration: March 30-31, 2007

Paper Presentations (full advance program information is available on the
website):

Design Guidelines for System Administration Tools - Developed through
Ethnographic Field Studies
Eben M. Haber, IBM Almaden Research Center, John Bailey, IBM Almaden
Research Center

Deciding when to trust automation in a policy-based city management game:
Policity
Kenya Freeman Oduor, IBM Software Group, Christopher S. Campbell, IBM
Almaden Research Center

Towards an Understanding of Decision Complexity in IT Configuration
Bin Lin, Northwestern University, Aaron B. Brown, IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center, Joesph L. Hellerstein, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Cube Management System: Tangible Interface for Monitoring Large Scale
Systems
Elliot Jaffe, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Aviva Dayan, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Amnon Dekel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Activity-based Management of IT Service Delivery
John Bailey, IBM Almaden Research Center, Eser Kandogan, IBM Almaden
Research Center, Eben Haber, IBM Almaden Research Center, Paul P. Maglio,
IBM Almaden Research Center

IT Ecosystems: Evolved Complexity and (Un)Intelligent Design
Jim Lentz, IBM Software Group, Terry Bleizeffer, IBM Software Group

Transitioning to Network Centricity: Overcoming Hierarchical Anchors
Steve Abrams, University of California, Irvine, Gloria Mark, University of
California, Irvine

Managing technology use and learning in nonprofit community organizations:
Methodological challenges and opportunities
Cecelia Merkel, Pennsylvania State University, Umer Farooq, Pennsylvania
State University, Lu Xiao, Pennsylvania State University, Craig Ganoe,
Pennsylvania State University, Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State
University, John M. Carroll, Pennsylvania State University

Supporting Expertise Awareness: Finding Out What Others Know
Christian Dörner, University of Siegen, Volkmar Pipek, University of
Siegen, Markus Won, University of Bonn

Looking for Trouble: Understanding End-User Security Management
Joshua B. Gross, Pennsylvania State University, Mary Beth Rosson,
Pennyslvania State University

User Help Techniques for Usable Security
Almut Herzog, Linköping University, Nahid Shahmehri, Linköping University