Proceedings of the Second Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2002, Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-23, 2002

NordiCHI is an international conference and the main Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research. It is the meeting place for researchers from academia as well as industry, designers, practitioners, educators and others from a broad range of traditions and communities.The biennial conference is a joint effort supported by the Nordic HCI organisations as well as international partners. The first conference, NordiCHI 2000, took place in Stockholm, Sweden, October 2000, and was organized by STIMDI.NordiCHI promotes HCI as a boundless field of research and practice, dealing with the design and use of interactive technology. Traditionally, Nordic perspectives on HCI emphasise topics such as technology in use, integration of design and use, exploratory design activities, and inter-disciplinary approaches to HCI. This tradition originates in the Nordic openness to new approaches and divergent ideas in the development of new concepts and practices for the future. Architecture, pedagogy, political action, fine arts, industrial design, Dada; the list of contributors to HCI is already long and will continue to grow as information technology diversifies and pervades still wider parts of our lives. NordiCHI is the meeting place for tradition and new directions. Therefore, the theme of NordiCHI 2002 is "tradition and transcendence".Throughout the preparation of NordiCHI 2002 we had the combined goal of maintaining the enthusiasm of the first NordiCHI conference and asserting a high quality technical programme. We think that the papers in this volume demonstrate that NordiCHI have succeeded in manifesting itself as a high quality conference. Among 86 submitted full papers, the programme committee selected 21 to be presented in the plenary papers session. In the short paper category 26 papers were accepted among 55 submissions. The proceedings also include three extended abstracts for demonstrations. And as a new category NordiCHI 2002 introduces "aesthetic artefacts" combining the exhibition of an interactive art piece with a short paper discussing its contribution to HCI discourse.