perlman@poppy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Perlman) (02/12/91)
The first release has over 750 entries and over 500K of text. More is on the way, especially if people volunteer to work on the parts that need data or validation. Gary Perlman, Drone-in-Chief, HCI Bibliography Project Last November 23, 1990, I sent out some mail following up on messages from Dec. 3, 1989 and Aug. 16, 1990 about compiling an HCI bibliography. I am please to say that thanks to many volunteers, the first chunks of a comprehensive bibliography are now available for you to use. In this announcement, I hope to provide you with enough information so that you can get at the current holdings, and to request more volunteers to continue the work of getting materials online and validated. The biggest chunks that we have online, with abstracts, include the complete ACM SIGCHI conference proceedings for 1983-1990, the complete abstracted contents of the journal Human-Computer Interaction, and the contents of several edited handbooks (with release of detailed tables of contents and abstracts pending publisher approval). Also included are over 100 entries on books and major reports on HCI. Although considerable planning has gone into this first release, I assume there will be feedback about problems, so I will warn people who access the bibliography during February that the files and procedures may change. The general description of the bibliography is about 3500 words, so I will not include it here. I will only include directions about how to access the files with ftp. Once on our machine, see the README file for full details, or the "index" file for contents. Send me feedback. And try not to kill a bunch of trees with printouts. INTERNET/ANONYMOUS FTP ACCESS: To access files in the HCI Bibliography, internet users can use FTP (file-transfer-protocol) to copy files and programs to their machines. See the file named README for more information about the contents of files and for information about how to contact publishers of the works. To log in to the archive machine, use the login name: "anonymous" and provide your internet account name as your password. The messages provided by ftp are unbelievably cryptic; many users can not distinguish between positive feedback and messages about unrecoverable errors, so ignore them and plod along. In the following example, where much of the output from ftp is left out, the following conventions are used. "$" is your system's prompt text after "#" is a comment you type in text after the ":" "ftp>" is the prompt from the file transfer program File transfer rates will vary, so try something small first. $ cd mybib # set transfer directory before ftp $ ftp cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu # to reach our archive; obscure text will follow Name (...): anonymous # user logs in with standard anon ftp name Password: yourname@yoursite # anon users identify themselves this way ftp> cd pub/hcibib # go to HCI Bibliography directory ftp> dir # to get a listing of what's there ftp> get README # to retrieve a file ftp> mget * # interactively retrieve all files ftp> quit # to leave ftp when done -- Name: Gary Perlman | Computer and Information Science Department Email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu | Ohio State University, 228 Bolz Hall Phone: 614-292-2566 | 2036 Neil Avenue Mall Fax: 614-785-9837 or 292-9021 | Columbus, OH 43210-1277 USA