CHI-SI was founded in January 2001 by Pradeep Henry (pradeephenry.com) to bring user interface and usability knowledge-share into the large software development community in India. CHI-SI achieves its objectives primarily through its annual national conference . CHI-SI is chartered by ACM, the US-headquartered parent organization. For efficient administration, the Chapter is focused in one geographic area (Chennai), but its events and membership are available to the whole country. In case you wondered, both "CHI" and “SI” rhyme with "pie."

Chairman: Pradeep Henry (pradeephenry.com) is a consultant for the Process-Efficient Technology Center of Excellence, which he founded at US-headquartered Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he previously held the position of Director. Pradeep is the Founding Director of Institute for Process-Efficient Technology (instipet.org). Pradeep has published a book and a few influential articles. He has also spoken at conferences in the US. Pradeep is internationally known for his three business-impacting serial innovations, including Process-Centered Design, which is a business process centered approach to architect user interfaces for business applications. Pradeep founded CHI-SI in 2001 and has chaired India's national UI conference every year since then.

Abdul Muthalif has been another key contributor to CHI-SI for several years. Abdul is an Assistant Manager at Cognizant and a Process-Efficient Technology consultant

Events:          Bhavani ( bhavani.anandakrishnan@chi-si.org )

ACM is the first and largest professional society in computing. With over 80,000 members worldwide, ACM is a major force in advancing the skills and knowledge of IT professionals and students. ACM serves as an umbrella organization offering its members a variety of forums for life-long learning in the rapidly changing IT field. SIGCHI is one of ACM's 36 Special Interest Groups. The focus is on Computer-Human Interaction.