ftp to: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu
and look in the following directories:
pub/hci/1472
pub/hci/Guidelines (Smith & Mosier)
pub/hcibib/readings.txt for platform-specific style guides
ISO 9241, Ergonomic Requirements for Office Work with Visual Display Terminals, is a 17-part standard that provides requirements and recommendations for hardware and software of VDTs, based on human factors principles and practices. The various parts of ISO 9241 are in various stages of development (from Working Draft through approved International Standard, with several of the software parts expected to reach IS or Draft IS status by the end of 1994); any part that has DIS or IS status is available for purchase. To inquire about ISO 9241, contact
International Organization for Standardization
[note to Edgar: I'll get the address for you ASAP]
or
American National Standards Institute (the U.S. distributor) 11 W. 42nd St., 13th Floor New York NY 10036 tel: +1.212.642.4900 fax: +1.212.398.0023
For current information about emerging national and international standards for HCI, see "The Standards Factor," a regular column by Pat Billingsley in the quarterly ACM/SIGCHI _Bulletin_.
HyperSAM is a hypertext interface to the user interface guidelines produced by Smith and Mosier. This application enables the 944 recommendations to be browsed, gathered, searched, annotated, and exported to support the design of user interfaces. HyperSAM is now available for the Macintosh. HyperSAM is also being released for the X Window System in the near future. Register on the hyperSAM list by sending an email message to: hypersam@bond.edu.au The current version of hyperSAM can be ftp'ed from kirk.bond.edu.au (131.244.1.1) in the directory /pub/Bond_Uni/hyperSAM or via the WWW at URL http://dstc.bond.edu.au:91776/hyperSAM.html A Macintosh version is in the file hyperSAM-2.0-mac.sea.hqx. A report on the hyperSAM software can be found in: hyperSAM-report.ps hyperSAM-report.ps.Z (compressed version)