============================================================================== 1994-05-21 The HCI Bibliography Announcement 19 ============================================================================== Bibliotheca magnetica patens omnibus -- Hominis-ordinatorisque societas ============================================================================== The HCI Bibliography has reached some milestones: 10,000 validated entries 250 files abstracting journals and conferences 250,000 lines of text At the same time, I think the HCI field has reached some milestones, as evidenced by the profusion of books on HCI. I have created a lightly annotated recommended reading list in a file called readings.txt, tables of contents of these books are in abooks.bib and ebooks.bib. In this Issue: {Current Status} A tabular format of the HCIBIB statistics {Equipment Donation} Promote YOUR company name in the HCIBIB {File Name Changes} An updated set of naming conventions {New Releases} Over 2000 new entries have been released {Future Work} The usual set of excuses for delays {Current Status} ---------------- Files, Entries, and Bytes in the HCI Bibliography (05/21/94) Files Entries Bytes BIB (Validated) 250 10673 10317601 TMP (Partially Validated) 16 1014 1284431 ALL Released Files 273 11687 11757320 NEW (Unvalidated/Unreleased) 13 524 532414 {Equipment Donation} -------------------- ACM SIGCHI donated a Microtek Scanmaker IIG (with Caere Omniscan software) to the Project, making it possible for thousands of entries to be scanned amazingly accurately. The project is now looking for a donor of a PC, dedicated to scanning and storing HCI Bibliography materials. The project is currently using an vintage 386-25 with a mere 8 meg of RAM. I realize that many people would be very happy to have such a machine, but with today's OCR software, a low-end 386 and 8 meg take minutes per abstract, instead of seconds. A donation of a PC with more power would increase throughput and save time. The donation would not even need to be a state-of-the-art machine, just something better than what we now have. Here is a wish-list in decreasing order of importance: * high speed Intel compatible CPU (min 486-33) * large RAM (min 16 meg) * high-speed modem for uploading data to the Internet * large (high-resolution) screen for editing (monochrome is okay) * large hard disk * internal backup tape drive * SCSI-ready for scanner connection The benefits to the donor would include an acknowledgement in all publications and releases, which are read by at least 450 registered users, a writeup in descriptions of the HCI Bibliography environment and process, and the knowledge that you are helping a worthy cause. With a little paperwork, it could be tax-deductible. {File Name Changes} ------------------- The names of several files have been changed to allow for more consistent file naming in the future. * beacker.bib was renamed to baeck87.bib to allow for baeck93.bib (and for baeck94.bib when it arrives). * MOSHCI91.bib was renamed to EWHCI91.bib as it is the first in what has now become the East-West HCI series. * there are no plans to change the ECHT** conference names to HYPER** even though ECHT'92 and ECHT'94 are ACM conferences * a more consistent naming system for large and multi-volume proceedings has been instituted, with the result being several name changes. The suffix of -# will now only be used for physically distinct volumes and the letters a, b, c, d, e, etc. will be used to denote parts of proceedings split so that files are manageable sizes. So, the following changes have occurred: CHI92-1 and CHI92-2 --> CHI92a and CHI92b CHI93-1 and CHI93-2 --> CHI93a and CHI93b INT84-1 INT84-2 etc. -> INT84a INT84b (similarly INT87 and INT90) Note that CHI'94 is in two physical volumes, the second of which is split. * a new naming convention has been created for unpublished parts of conferences (e.g., poster and demo abstract booklets, descriptions of tutorials and workshops, etc.). These will have the same prefix and year of a conference, but be terminated by letters at the end of the alphabet (e.g., HYPER93X, HYPER93Y, HYPER93Z). * files for IJMMS, which has been renamed IJHCS (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies) starting with Volume 40, 1994, will not be retro-names as IJMMS. The "first" volume of IJHCS will be in IJHCS40.bib. I apologize for the obscure nature of these naming conventions, but the the complexity of conference publications, combined with an eight character limit for DOS file names makes design difficult. {New Releases} -------------- There have been many releases since Announcement 17, February 1, 1994. Special Files: readings.txt Gary Perlman's HCI/UI/HF Reading List baeck93 Baecker's CSCW Readings Journals: BIT12 Behaviour and Information Technology HCI08 Human-Computer Interaction IJHCI05 International Journal of HCI IJMMS39 International Journal of Man-Machine Studies IWC05 Interacting with Computers TOIS11 Transactions on Information Systems Conferences: BCSHCI93 British Computer Society HCI'93 - People and Computers VIII CHI92X ACM CHI'92 Posters CHI92Y ACM CHI'92 Short Talks CHI93X ACM CHI'93 Adjunct Proceedings Short Talks (Papers & Posters) CHI93Y ACM CHI'93 Adjunct Proceedings Miscellaneous CHI94-1 ACM CHI'94 Papers CHI94-2[a-e] ACM CHI'94 Companion (in five parts) DOC93 ACM SIGDOC'93 HCI93-1[a-c] HCI International, Volume 1, parts a, b, c HCI93-2[a-c] HCI International, Volume 2, parts a, b, c HCI93-3 HCI International Posters (softcover volume) HFS93-[12]* HFES'93, in two volumes, each in three parts HYPER93 ACM Hypertext'93 HYPER93X ACM Hypertext'93 Unpublished Program HYPER93Y ACM Hypertext'93 Demos HYPER93Z ACM Hypertext'93 Posters OCS93 ACM Organizational Computing Systems UIST93 ACM UI Software and Technology Except for the following, the Bibliography is up to date for 1993: JOC03 Journal or Organizational Computing HYPER05 Hypermedia OZCHI93 Australian HCI Conference ESP93 Empirical Studies of Programmers Workshop {Future Work} ------------- We hope to get the European CSCW conferences online soon, and after I return to Ohio in the summer, the dream of CACM and IEEE Computer in the HCIBIB will be realized. Lois Smith (HFES Publications Manager) is sending an online version of some subset of previous HFS publications (the journal and the annual meeting proceedings); these materials should appear online relatively soon. Gary Perlman, Drone-in-Chief