Re: CECS5310:Chowdhury_ListServ Post 1

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:53:53 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

>Recently I read this article in one of the HCI online newspapers:
>http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article1635.asp
>
>The article stated that Dr Claude Ghaoui, from Liverpool JMU, UK was
>initiating a call for short articles drawn from subjects across HCI, for
>the Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction. He is seeking a large
>number of good contributions for this project. The need for an
>encyclopedia is ever-increasing because for the last 25 years or so HCI
>has inspired new solutions, specially, for the benefit of the user as a
>human being, making the user the focal point which technology should
>serve, rather than the other way round (when it was the case before HCI
>was taken seriously). In such an ever-evolving environment, teachers,
>researchers and professionals of the discipline need access to the most
>current information in this fast emerging field. The Encyclopedia of
>Human Computer Interaction will be most helpful as it aims to provide a
>comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important HCI-related
>issues, concepts, trends and technologies in IS and IT. This publication
>will be distributed worldwide among academic and professional
>institutions and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars,
>students and professionals, access to the latest knowledge in the field
>of HCI.

I complety agree with you in the need for an encyclopedia of this nature.
There is so much out there that this information needs to be put out there
inorder for it to be useful.  We have many children and students who are
very comfortable with thechnology and computers who need to be taught this
information at a young age, but can't be due to instructors and teachers
having to spend so much of their time trying to find that information.  I
look foward to this being published.