Subject:   ACM SIGCHI HCI Education Update
Date:      March 9, 1994
From:      Gary Perlman and Jean Gasen
To:        Contact Persons for the HCI Education Survey

It has been a year since the first release of the HCI Education Survey.
By the end of 1993, we received information on:
	69 programs   164 faculty   141 courses
We have received about 150 email requests for reports and uncounted
anonymous ftp accesses of the information provided by respondents.

The CHI'94 conference in Boston is fast approaching, and we will
be presenting a poster on the survey on April 26-27, 1994.
We will be providing copies of the survey at the conference,
most probably on Mac and DOS floppy disks.

	+----------------------------------------------------+
	|WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO UPDATE YOUR ENTRY IN THE SURVEY|
	+----------------------------------------------------+

We realize that providing the information was arduous,
but we think that an update should be much easier.
At worst, your entry will have some parts that are out of date
and you will have the opportunity to update the entry later.
At least, you should add/delete faculty records as appropriate.

Inventory of HCI Teaching Materials
-----------------------------------
Before describing the update process, we would like to
inform you of an exciting project related to this survey.
Terry Winograd and we would like to organize HCI teaching materials
(syllabi, exercises, examples, exams, reading lists, etc)
and provide a means of accessing them online.
We plan to organize "pointers" to materials on the internet
using World-Wide-Web (i.e., site name and directory/file name)
so that people could browse the materials from a central page,
probably with an index or some search capability.
We may integrate the Survey with the teaching materials
so that a few pointer fields are added to course records.

To learn about some useful resources available over the internet,
you might join the educators.chi mailing list, which is managed by SIGCHI.
Send a request to be added to:
	educators-request.chi@xerox.com
or just send a request to the list administrator:
	perlman.chi@xerox.com

Updating Your Survey Entry
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To update your record in the Education Survey,
we ask that you make changes directly to the appended copy,
and please try to follow the format as exactly as possible.
You may note that some fields have been augmented; for example,
the "country" field now includes state/province and city names,
and the phone numbers now include country codes.
The Toronto CS entry included a list of the students, dates, and
thesis titles for the MS and PhD fields; not only does this
make it easier for you to keep track of which students did what,
it also provides a lot of information to prospective students.
So, if you want to provide this info, follow this format:
%List +
 * Kurtenbach, Gordon (1993). The Development and Evaluation of
   Marking Menus.
 * Lee, Alison (1992). Investigations into History Tools for User
   Support.

We can email you detailed instructions on the fields, but the easiest
thing for you to do may be to update the information you see,
passing on faculty and course records to associated parties.
You can also access the survey information at our ftp site:
	archive.cis.ohio-state.edu
in the directory:
	pub/hci/Education

Now, here is your current file.  Please do not make cosmetic changes
and please do not identify where you have made changes.  We will run
a program to detect changes you make, so minimalism is best for us.

Please return the updated file to:
	educhi@cis.ohio-state.edu
with the subject line:
	HCI EDUCATION SURVEY UPDATE
by April 10, 1994.  Your updated information will be incorporated
in time for CHI'94.

Since the survey is online and updatable at any time,
if you are not going to update your entry,
please refrain from sending mail to that effect.
People will simply depend on the old information,
which, for many of you, will be adequate.

Gary Perlman and Jean Gasen