The HCI Bibliography Project has been made possible by
the cooperation of people in the HCI community.
As a project without a staff or budget,
the main benefit of volunteering help is intrinsic.
To better acknowledge the assistance of volunteers,
the HCI Bibliography Page of Fame was created.
To be inducted onto (onducted?) the Page of Fame,
a person must have done much more than imagined possible
(or at least tried to).
Lorraine Normore
"For being the most willing to validate materials."
One of the hardest tasks in running the HCI Bibliography
is to find people who are willing to put in
hours of precious time to validate entries in the database.
Lorraine Normore leads the field in offering her time,
particularly for materials for which no one else has volunteered.
1998-07-20
Russel Winder
"For being on the leading edge of electronic publication
and contributing records based on his work."
Although it seems like a simple concept to provide parts of
files used for publishing proceedings for inclusion in
bibliographic abstracting services, the norm is that
there is little consistency in the materials produced,
making it easier to scan in and correct abstracts from paper.
Russel Winder, in producing the British Computer Society's
HCI proceedings for many years, has provided online documents
that were consistent enough to be automatically converted
to be included in the HCI Bibliography, and rich enough to
allow the automated inclusion of tables of contents.
1998-08-31
Margot Lagendijk
"For being the most diligent validator in the history of the project."
As part of data validation, known errors are inserted into the data
to estimate how many errors are left in the data after validation.
In all of her many validations,
Margot Lagendijk found more than 90% of the errors,
and 100% in three cases
(the average is 67%).
1998-11-29
Dan Horn
"For providing hundreds of typos and corrections
in a format that allowed for easy update."
For their CSCW'04 paper
Six degrees of Jonathan Grudin:
a social network analysis of the evolution and impact of CSCW research,
Horn et al found almost two hundred errors in authors in the HCI Bibliography.
He provided a file of record identifiers with typos and corrections
(conventiently in the same format as the database).
In addition to those corrections, the types of errors found suggested some
scripts that found dozens more.