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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
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