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From: carm@tove.cs.umd.edu (Richard Chimera)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: A newsgroup for HCI/UI?
Keywords: human-computer interaction user interfaces
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Date: 26 Feb 91 23:11:37 GMT
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It seems to me that HCI/UI is an inherently multi-disciplinary field.
And should stay that way for some time to come.  If we were to create
a new bboard for discussions relating to HCI/UI, we may think that is
the best or only place to hold such discussions, and lose out on many
valuable discussions on other bboards that don't seem so closely tied
to the computer.

It's happened many times before that computer science researchers 
duplicate work that was done in another field without knowing about
those earlier findings.  I think that by monitoring many worldwide
bboards that have something in common with HCI/UI issues would
be the best way to stay in touch with those issues.  And by doing this,
we can realize surrendipitous discoveries of issues we never would
have thought of in our own little world.

My suggestion is for HCI/UI people to post here the bboards they follow
from which they think they get HCI/UI info.  My list is:
	alt.hypertext
	comp.cog-eng
	comp.groupware
	comp.lang.visual
	comp.mail.multi-media

	bboards from which I've unsubscribed:
	comp.software-eng
	comp.multimedia
	sci.psychology
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