Mailing Lists

There are a number of mailing lists for HCI professionals. Many of the smaller mailing lists are only sporadically active.

ACM SIGCHI operates a number of specialized mailing lists. Some of these mailing lists are described here. For a full list of ACM SIGCHI listserver services, see http://www.sigchi.org/listserv/.

If you are new to mailing lists, you might want to read our short introduction to Using Mailing Lists.

British HCI News

The British HCI News is a free service offered by the British HCI Group. "It is used for announcements of relevant UK and international conferences, workshops, journals, jobs and other resources."

To subscribe to the list, send email to jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk with the following command in the body of the message:

join bcs-hci your_name

Send all submissions to bcs-hci-request@jiscmail.ac.uk.

An archive of past messages is available at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bcs-hci.html.

For further information, visit the British HCI News page at http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/british-hci-mailing.html.

CHI-Kids "is for designers, producers, researchers, and practitioners of interactive media for children and adolescents. It is a forum for discussing a wide range of issues related to the creation and implementation of kids' software."

CHI-Kids is one of several mailing lists sponsored by ACM SIGCHI.

To subscribe to the list, send email to listserv@acm.org with the following command in the body of the message:

subscribe chi-kids your_name

For additional information, see the CHI-Kids home page at http://www.sigchi.org/kids/chi-kids.html.

An archive of past messages is available at http://listserv.acm.org/archives/chi-kids.html.

CHI-Web

CHI-Web is concerned with "on human factors aspects of the World Wide Web". It is one of several mailing lists sponsored by ACM SIGCHI.

To subscribe to the list, send email to listserv@acm.org with the following command in the body of the message:

subscribe chi-web your_name

For additional information, see the CHI-Web home page at http://www.sigchi.org/web/.

An archive of past messages is available at http://listserv.acm.org/archives/chi-web.html.

CSTG-L

The CSTG-L mailing list was shut down on April 15, 1998.

Discovery - User Research Discussion

The Discovery mailing list is "a place to discuss studying customers in order to get new insights - whether those insights stand alone, or become implications for design, strategy, interactions, products, communications, whatever. What are we doing to understand something new about people, and how do we make sense of that..."

To subscribe to the list, visit http://mail.portigal.com/mailman/listinfo/discovery_portigal.com.

An archive of past messages is available at http://mail.portigal.com/pipermail/discovery_portigal.com/.

GOV-HCI

The GOV-HCI mailing list is "for individuals interested in human computer interaction (HCI) and usability engineering in the government arena."

To subscribe to the list, send email to listproc@nist.gov with the following command in the body of the message:

subscribe gov-hci your_name

informal-HCI

"Started by two student volunteers at CHI 99, the informal-HCI list is made for SVs, former SVs, and non-SVs who want to keep in touch between the events. Our intention is to support informal personal contacts within the HCI community, hopefully leading to colorful discussions on all the different aspects of our common subject."

For more information, see the informal-HCI home page at http://www.Tau-web.de/hci/informal/.

Interactif

A French-language HCI mailing list maintained by Groupe Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM).

For more information, see http://www-ihm.lri.fr/interactif/.

Note: Does not seem to be active.

IxD Discussion

IxD Discussion is intended to "provide an international forum for the discussion of interaction design (IxD) issues, best practices, methods, and theory." This mailing list is maintained by the Interaction Design Group (IxDG).

For more information, see the IxD Discussion home page at http://interactiondesigners.com/join_us/ixd_discussion_list/index.shtml.

ITG

The HFES Internet Technical Group (ITG) operates a mailing list. It is restricted to members of the ITG.

For more information, see http://www.InternetTG.org/listserv/listserv.html.

SIGIA-L

SIGIA-L is a mailing list for information architects. It is sponsored by the Information Architecture Special Interest Group (SIG-IA) of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), http://www.asis.org.

To subscribe to the list, send email to majordomo@www.asis.org with the following command in the body of the message:

subscribe sigia-l

To post messages, send email to sigia-l@asis.org.

For more information, see http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/Information_Architecture/listserv.html.

SW-Ergo-News

SW-Ergo-News, short for Software-Ergonomie-News, is a German-language mailing list. It is maintained by the Special Interest Group 2.3.1 on Software-Ergonomics of the GI Committee 2.3 on Ergonomics in Informatics. Submissions to this newsgroup are also posted to de.alt.sci.ergonomie (see Newsgroups).

For more information, see the SW-Ergo-News home page at http://www.gui-design.de/swmap3.htm or contact Astrid Beck at Astrid_Beck@gui-design.de.

An archive of past messages is available at http://www.sw-ergo.de/.

TECHWR-L

The TECHWR-L mailing list is intended for technical communicators. It covers many usability as well as technical communication topics of interest to HCI professionals. It has a large number of posts each day.

To subscribe to the list, send email to lyris@lists.raycomm.com with the following command in the body of the message:

subscribe TECHWR-L your_name

To post messages, send email to techwr-l@lists.raycomm.com. The list is restricted. Only subscribers can post messages.

An archive of past messages is available at http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives/archives.html and http://www.documentation.com/archives/techwrit-l/techwrit-l.html. The TECHWR-L mailing list is also mirrored by the bit.listserv.techwr-l newsgroup.

For more information, visit The Official TECHWR-L website, http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/.

ui-patterns

The ui-patterns mailing list is concerned with patterns in human-computer interaction (see A to Z > Pattern Languages).

To subscribe, send email to ui-patterns-request@cs.uiuc.edu with the word subscribe in the Subject field.

To unsubscribe, send email to ui-patterns-request@cs.uiuc.edu with the word unsubscribe in the Subject field.

uk-usability

Uk-usability is a UK-based mailing list on web site usability.

To subscribe to the list, send a blank email to subscribe-uk-usability@chinwag.com.

To post messages, send email to uk-usability@chinwag.com.

For more information, visit http://www.chinwag.com/uk-usability/index.shtml.

Usableitv - The Interactive TV Usability Network

"Provides a discussion network for researchers and developers who are interested in the human factors issues relating to interactive TV (iTV) services."

For more information, see http://www.usableitv.com/.

Usablemobile.com

Usablemobile.com "proposes to take lessons learned from current generations of 'mobile internet', to inform the design of future mobile devices as technology evolves."

For more information, see http://www.usablemobile.com/.

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