Electronic Resources in Human-Computer Interaction
Note: This paper is a summary of a SIG (Special Interest Group)
meeting 11:00-12:30 on Thursday, April 28, 1994 at CHI'94 in Boston.
Gary Perlman
Computer and Information Science
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA
perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu
John "Scooter" Morris
Genetech, Inc.
460 Point San Bruno Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
scooter@genie.gene.com
Jakob Nielsen
Bellcore MRE-2P370
445 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07960-6438 USA
nielsen@bellcore.com
Brian Shackel
HUSAT Research Institute
University of Technology
Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU UK
B.Shackel@lut.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
At CHI'91 there was a SIG meeting on Resources in HCI
in which the HCI Bibliography [Perl91] and the HILITES
database [Shack92] were featured. Since that time, the
resources in HCI have expanded dramatically, almost all of
which are available online, many of which are available
free of charge. The topics of this SIG meeting are:
- identifying current resources in HCI
- identifying as yet unknown resources
- identifying useful resources to develop
- soliciting input on acceptable formats and how
resources should be made accessible
KEYWORDS
[H.3.4] Information networks. [H.3.5]
Online information services. [J.1] Electronic publishing.
[H.5] Human-computer interaction
EXAMPLES OF CURRENT RESOURCES
The following show the diversity of existing resources.
- UI guidelines [Smit86] and HF standards [Coh88].
- SEI Curriculum Module on UI Development
[Perl89] is a resource for teaching UI development. It
influenced design of the CS1 course in [Hew92] and
its bibliography motivated [Perl91].
- HCI Bibliography [Perl91] is a free access database
on HCI with about 10,000 abstracted items.
- ACM SIGCHI Curricula in HCI [Hew92] is the
Curriculum Development Group's final report.
- HILITES [Shack92] is the largest commercial HCI
bibliography with over 30,000 entries.
- HCI Education Survey [Perl93] describes 68
programs, 162 faculty, and 139 courses in HCI.
- Books on HCI Design, such as [Lew93].
- Discussion fora, although not resources like document
collections, can be a source of timely information:
- the Hicom conference service
- newsgroups like comp.human-factors
- mailing lists such as the HFES' CSTG-L and
ACM SIGCHI's announcements.chi.
The issues we hope to address are how to make these and
other resources more useful to people and how to migrate
into the inevitable future of electronic publishing.
REFERENCES
[Coh88]
Cohen, A.
"MIL-STK-1472: DoD Human Engineering Design Stack."
1988. (pub/hci/1472 at [OSU93]).
[Hew92]
Hewett, T. T. et al
"ACM SIGCHI Curricula in HCI."
1992. (text and RTF formats in pub/hci/CDG at
[OSU93]).
[Lew93]
Lewis, C. and Rieman, J.
Task-Centered user Inteface Design.
(text at ftp.cs.colorado.edu (128.138.243.151)
in pub/cs/distribs/clewis/HCI-Design-Book).
[OSU93]
Ohio State University, Computer and Information
Science Department. FTP site (internet id no
128.146.8.52) ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu.
[Perl89]
Perlman, G.
"User Interface Development."
Curriculum Module 17, Software Engineering Institute, 1989. (text
format in pub/hci/SEI at [OSU93]).
[Perl91]
Perlman, G.
"The HCI Bibliography Project."
SIGCHI
Bulletin, 23:3, 15-20, 1991. (ASCII refer format
at ftp.hcibib.org).
[Perl93]
Perlman, G. and Gasen, J.
"HCI Education Survey."
1993. (text in pub/hci/Education at [OSU93]).
[Shack92]
Shackel, B. et al. "HILITES - The Information Service
for the World HCI Community." SIGCHI Bulletin,
24:3, 40-49, 1992.
[Smit86] Smith, S. L. and Mosier, J. N.
"Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software,"
MITRE Corp., 1986. (text
and PS in pub/hci/Guidelines at [OSU93]).