[net.wanted] Good Schools for Human Factors & Comp. Science

lmm@panda.UUCP (Linda M. McInnis) (01/14/85)

I'm thinking about spending my life's fortune to go back
for an M.S. in computer Science.  However, I want to 
also study human factors/user-computer interface design.

Any suggestions for schools??

Thanks in advance.

lmm


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koved@tove.UUCP (Larry Koved) (01/15/85)

> I'm thinking about spending my life's fortune to go back
> for an M.S. in computer Science.  However, I want to 
> also study human factors/user-computer interface design.
> 
> Any suggestions for schools??
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> lmm

University of Maryland, College Park has a group working on Human
Factors issues in computer science, under the direction of 
Ben Shneiderman.
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mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) (01/25/85)

In article <224@panda.UUCP> lmm@panda.UUCP (Linda M. McInnis) writes:
>I'm thinking about spending my life's fortune to go back
>for an M.S. in computer Science.  However, I want to 
>also study human factors/user-computer interface design.
>
>Any suggestions for schools??
>

University of Maryland at College Park.  We have an interdisciplinary
program with Psychology and Computer Science in Human Factors of computer
systems, a "Human-Computer Interaction Lab", and a fair amount of work going
on.  Mail to seismo!umcp-cs!ben (that's Ben Shneiderman) for more info.
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