[Air-l] human-machine

[Barry Wellman]

Christian, et al.

There is a huge literature on Human-Machine interaction, under the rubric
of HCI, or Human-Computer Interaction.

One annual conference organized by ACM's SIGCHI. (why HCI became CHI in
this acronymn is a little puzzling, prouncability I guess).

Plus an annual conference on CSCW (computer supported cooperative work)
that alternates between Europe and US.

You can catch up re the published Proceedings of these conferences, plus
Transactions of CHI (or is it HCI) journal.  plus much, much more.

Alas, AoIR has not reached out to invite the folks doing this work into
its activities. To mutual detriment. Many smart folks, mostly in computer
science, communication science, info sci, etc.

William Bainbridge is now putting together a Handbook of HCI for Berkshire
Reference Works, but it will be at least 6 months before publication.

 Barry
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