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In the spirit of INTERACTs founder Brian Shackel, this conference was founded to bring together academics and industrial practitioners in the field of human computer interaction (HCI) to recognize the profound societal impact that research and knowledge on humans interacting with various forms of technology has. HCI has grown from being a small obscure discipline for computer scientists that were not that good on programming and needed to pick a field that was easy, to being one of the most important and fastest growing professions in the IT sector, through the role that user experience (UX) play. The scientific studies and published papers in HCI have grown much more than many of the other disciplines. How has HCI come to undergo such a development? I believe that there are several potential reasons for this. The transdisciplinary nature, involving true collaboration and a joint understanding between …