Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!s.psych.uiuc.edu!coshima From: coshima@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Craig Oshima) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: A newsgroup for HCI/UI? Keywords: human-computer interaction user interfaces Message-ID: <1991Feb26.014734.16220@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Feb 91 01:47:34 GMT References: <1991Feb21.024959.6698@cs.uoregon.edu> <1991Feb25.164210.14599@rick.doc.ca> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 30 In article <1991Feb25.164210.14599@rick.doc.ca> andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes: [regarding a newsgroup covering hci and comp. interfaces] >I think comp.cog-eng pretty well fits the bill. I disagree, at least in some respects. I think that a newsgroup for topics regarding human factors engineering, design, research, and modeling (etc.) would be a valuable forum for HCI. Being a grad student in human factors engineering, I am all for such a group, but to my knowledge none exists. Although cognitive engineering has much in common with human factors, they do differ. So I agree with you in that comp.cog-eng could cover hci, but a group for human factors in general would also be a good forum for hci, and would probably be a better creation for society than "alt.sex.without-love.with-martians." So I also pose the original question (or a variation of it anyway): Assuming that this group does not exist (which is true to the best of my knowledge), how does one go about creating one? We are planning on setting one up in the local domain, but one with a larger scope would be both more interesting and more valuable. > "The interface IS the program." Or at least the important part... :-) Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Oshima | Modern art is what happens when a painter University of Illinois | stops looking at girls and persuades himself coshima@s.psych.uiuc.edu | he has a better idea. -John Ciardi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com