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From:         Duane F Marble <dmarble@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
Subject:      Human Computer Interaction Bibliography

The following material is extracted from a longer document describing
the Human Computer Interaction Bibliography Project run by my colleague
Gary Perlman in our CIS department. Copies of the complete document are
available via FTP as noted below.

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                         The HCI Bibliography Project
                           (document date: 6/1/92)

                                  Gary Perlman
                  Department of Computer and Information Science
                           The Ohio State University
                           Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA
                    614-292-2566 Office, 614-292-9021 Fax
                          perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu

                                  ABSTRACT

               The HCI Bibliography is a free-access online
        extended bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction.  The
        basic goal of the project is to put an online bibliogra-
        phy for most of HCI on the screens of all researchers,
        developers, educators and students in the field through
        anonymous ftp access, mail servers, and Mac and DOS
        floppy disks. Through the efforts of volunteers, the
        bibliography has passed 3300 entries, with abstracts
        and/or tables of contents; eventually, citation informa-
        tion and hypertext access will be added. [The files are
        in REFER format. DFM]

         Procedures for Accessing the HCI Bibliography

Registration:

        To allow us to inform users of additions and corrections, and
to keep track of who uses the HCI Bibliography, we request that
users register with us.  Send electronic mail and/or postal address
to hcibib@cis.ohio-state.edu.  The first line of the message should
be:

     Register:

followed by a line with electronic mail address, followed by lines
with other identifying information (e.g., a mailing label, in
electronic form).

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 unbeliev-
ably 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 ":" and the ">"
     "ftp>" is the prompt from the file transfer program

File transfer rates will vary, so try something small first. The
README and Index files are suggested for basic information.

$ mkdir mybib                 # make a directory where you will keep your
                                    copy
$ cd mybib                    # set transfer directory before ftp
$ ftp ftp.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   # use your name and your site for
                                     identification
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> prompt                   # to toggle (turn off) interactive prompting
ftp> mget *                   # interactively retrieve all files
ftp> quit                     # to leave ftp when done

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--
Duane F. Marble            E-mail: dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Dept. of Geography
The Ohio State University  Telephone:  (614) 292-2250
Columbus, OH 43220         Fax:  (614) 292-6213
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