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From: rba@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: this news group
Message-ID: <1766@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 10:38:09 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 10:38:09 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Aug-83 16:15:40 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Although this news group is only a week old, the response to it
has been incredible.  Since much of the discussion has involved
screen colors which doesn't have much to do with "cognitive engineering"
it might be appropriate to spawn another news group net.ergonomics
for that type of topic.  Still another possibility would be a news group
with ideas for setting up a shell environment.  A while ago
there was a discussion of unique prompts used by people on the
network, but this discussion could be extended to all other types
of shell commands.  In fact, the news group itself (as a community
effort) could set up and modify a shell to give out to new users.
Perhaps this news group could be called net.shell.

I've been working with human intefaces for a few years now, and I'd
like to share some of the resources I've discovered.

1. There is a SIG (Special Interest Group) on CHI (Computer Human
   Interactions).  This group has a newsletter and will be holding
   a large conference in December.
2. There is a Computer Group which is part of the Human Factors
   Society.
3. IFIP (Europe) has a Group 6.3 which publishes a newsletter called
   "Interact"

					Bob Allen
					allegra!rba