In 2001 AFIHM and the British HCI Group combined their annual conferences, bringing together the best features of each organisation's separate conference series, and providing a special opportunity for the French- and English-speaking HCI communities to interact.This volume contains the full papers presented at IHM-HCI 2001, the 15th annual conference of the British HCI group, a specialist group of the British Computer Society and the 14th annual conference of the Association Francophone d'interaction Homme-Machine, an independent association for any French-speaking person who is interested in Human-Computer Interaction.Human-Computer Interaction is a discipline well-suited to such a multi-linguistic and multi-cultural conference since it brings together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines with very different ways of thinking and working. As a community we are already used to tackling the challenges of working across such boundaries, dealing with the problems and taking advantage of the richness of the resulting insights: interaction without frontiers.The papers presented in this volume cover all the main areas of HCI research, but also focus on considering the challenges of new applications addressing the following themes:- Enriching HCI by crossing national, linguistic and cultural boundaries;- Achieving greater co-operation between disciplines to deliver usable, useful and exciting design solutions;- Benefiting from experience gained in other application areas;- Transcending interaction constraints through the use of novel technologies;- Supporting mobile users.

I needed a break. I needed ."an off-the-wall dalliance. An all-boys' adventure in a faraway land. An adventure far away from telephones and faxes and lawyers. An adventure with an abundance of humor, serious physical exertion, and danger nominally short of life-threatening." After a little research and a few phone calls, I decided that a climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, with four friends, via the "Tourist Route," would fit the bill. In this book, the author tell the story of the climb-four days up, and two days down-with a humorous yet sensitive slant, describing the perils of altitude, the vicissitudes of Mother Nature, the enjoyment of multi-generational and multi-ethnic collaboration, the travails of disappointment, and the exhilaration of success. And where it suits his fancy-and does no harm to accuracy-he embellishes an observation or encounter to illuminate the pure joy of the experience. After all, it was about good fun, and the telling of it should be too.

An off-beat murder mystery, not for the faint of heart. A wife, a mother, a sister - unknown to each other - murdered under similar circumstances - in different countries - years apart. Are the crimes related? Will they reveal who killed the wife of Aiden Tarot? He dearly wants to know. But her case is long gone cold. And he is distraught. After relentless badgering by his strong-willed secretary, Jamie, he is finally convinced to conduct his own investigation of his wife's case. With the help of Jamie's mother, Phoebe, a hotshot PI, Aiden digs deep into his past and discovers more than he expected. A wife in Kenya may be the next victim. And he cannot sit idly by.

An account of the author's latest safari in Southern Africa, told with whacky humor and unvarnished candor. The story weaves the thrill of the safari experience with poignant vignettes of contemporary African life. Phil Gray is a Hawaii businessman. When a lawsuit is filed against him for no legitimate reason he can fathom, and a legion of lawyers cannot make it go away, he feels his sanity threatened. Luckily he has an antidote: Safari. SOUTH AFRICA - A various land: Pretoria its Beverly Hills, Soweto its bowels, Cape Town its heart, Robben Island its shame, Kruger Park its light, Zululand its pulse. Self-drive safaris. Wildlife Conservation Camps. Up close: lion, leopard, cheetah, baboon, crocodile, cape buffalo, vulture. NAMIBIA - Prosperity since independence. Self-drive its length: Windhoek to Etosha Pan to Swakopmund to Namib Desert to red dunes of Sosussvlei. Dead in sand SUV. Himba pride. ZIMBABWE - Destitution since liberation. White-owned farms seized. Election Day: Will Mugabe screw the people again? A Rastafarian connection? Zambezi River inundates Victoria Falls, incomparable spectacle, empty town - squandered opportunity? Elephant ride. Afrikaner arrogance vs. African grace. BOTSWANA - A vast, sparsely populated paradise, democratic since independence. Chobe Game Lodge: absurd luxury, immaculate bush, spooky elephant. Beach lions? SWAZILAND - Peaceful hereditary monarchy. Barbecue at two orphanages: only meat the kids would see in a year? HIV too? Sadness of Agnes's kraal. Standing alone, the wildlife safari is a carefree joyful holiday. When paired with exposure to the tribulations of African life, however, a sobering perspective ensues, and imagined threats to sanity drift shamefully away.

""It was common knowledge that the woods behind my house in Milford were teeming with the most venomous of vipers. Monstrous Copperheads lurked behind every rock. Hideous Water Moccasins slithered through every creek. Big snakes. Poisonous snakes. All banded together in an insidious reptilian conspiracy, dedicated to the elimination of ten-year-old boys from the face of the earth."

Connecticut, 1952." School is out for the summer. In a time before computers, X-boxes, and iPods, the neighborhood kids have to get into trouble the old-fashioned way-using their imagination.

Ten-year-old Sonny Boy gets the bright idea for a practical joke involving his mother and a snake. He fears the loathsome reptiles more than anything in the world, but he figures it will be a great gag that will make him a hero to his buddies, Charlie and Pudgy-and to a certain girl. But three bullies harass the boys at every turn, and a battle of wits ensues. Nothing, however, diminishes Sonny Boy's infatuation for, or attempts to impress, the lovely Mary Lou.

During that hot summer, Sonny Boy befriends an octogenarian named Otto, whose wisdom facilitates his introduction to adolescence-and a final showdown with a snake.