Internetworking

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:02:44 +0200
From: Michael Uwe Moebius <m.moebius@uni-koeln.de>

Internetworking--ITG Newsletter

http://www.sandia.gov/itg/newsletter/newsletter.html

The Internet Technical Group, "a community for professionals from
industry, academia and government organizations who share a common
interest in Internet technologies and related behavioral phenomena,"
provides this new irregularly issued publication that concentrates on web
usability, among other areas. The first issue contains articles on
user-centered web design, the Log Annotation Device (LAD) for web storage
and retrieval, an introduction to graphic formats, and topical book
reviews. Internetworking is edited by Scott Isensee of the IBM
Corporation.

The Internet Technical Group (ITG) will create a community for
professionals from industry, academia and government organizations who
share a common interest in Internet technologies and related behavioral
phenomena. The ITG will provide value to its membership through enabling
and encouraging an immediate exchange of research, ideas and technical
innovations. This is considered crucial in that the activities of the ITG
will supplement for traditional modes of dissemination such as
professional journals and conferences whose lag times limit their ability
to provide professionals with timely information, given the rapid pace of
development pervading this field. Through these activities, a primary
objective of ITG will be to assure its members are constantly aware and
informed with regard to relevant developments. 

By providing multiple communication channels for its membership (web based
newsletter, discussion group, online journal, a repository for web UI
information such as pointers to relevant web sites, and guidelines for web
design), the ITG will provide an avenue for collaboration and seek to
advance the field by encouraging the coordinated efforts of its
membership. Furthermore, the ITG will work to advance the application of
Human Factors principles and methodologies to Internet technologies, as
well as promote behavioral study of human-machine and human-computer
interaction via the Internet.

The ITG will investigate and pursue opportunities to involve its members
in the activities of standards bodies and by doing so, provide a voice for
the Human Factors profession within these activities.

Finally, as the Human Factors profession, as a whole, adapts to the
changing technological landscape of the Internet, the ITG will offer a
resource for HFES members, regardless of ITG membership, to obtain
information and maintain an awareness of Internet technologies.

Specific Areas of Interest:

user interface design of web content, web-based applications, web
browsers, webtops, web-based user assistance and Internet devices

Methodologies for research, design, and testing Internet and Intranet
patterns of usage

Behavioral and sociological phenomena associated with distributed network
communication and related technological innovation

Privacy, security, community, and other socio-technical issues WWW, email,
USENET, chat, listserves, shared applications, push and streaming
technologies, VRML, video-conferencing, Internet- based agents,
visualization, navigation and manipulation of Internet-based information
spaces

Human reliability in administration and maintenance of data networks 

Human factors in electronic commerce, and on-line product data management
and document management

Guidelines and standards for interface design, for the Web and Web-based
applications

Accessibility of Web-based development 

e-mail:  pvora@uswest.com, Pawan R. Vora