Our community session begins with this website, where we hope YOU will post some of your images and portfolio entries. At the conference we will use this website as the basis for discussion about how portfolios are used and the basic elements in a bound portfolio. We will present some basic tools and software as well as some interesting and fun examples of ways to ‘see’ your work. We will wrap up the presentation with a listing of some of the tools common for a portfolio and some easy techniques to make a portfolio that is an effective and clear statement of your work and personality. Some of the topics we will be discussing are.
- How to take a quantitative or written idea and making it graphic?
- What kinds of technologies to use.
- Methodologies and approaches to organizing your work.
- Best practices for an organized and consistent portfolio.

After the presentation we will have a group discussion about what constitutes a “CHI–based” Portfolio? We would like this discussion to be inclusive and would like to promote the session to people who don’t think they would need a portfolio. This is an opportunity to challenge one’s own sense of convention and to consider “What would happen if programmers had portfolios?”. We would like to end this discussion by addressing the difference between the kinds of work done by members of the CHI community.

The final element of the session will be a portfolio review and share. We would like to encourage anyone and everyone to bring examples of their work to share and discuss. This event is all about what makes a good CHI portfolio. To close the session we will present this collection as a slide show and would like to contribute the slides to CHI as the portfolio for CHI 2008.