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Discussion Lists and Newsletters

The lists detailed below cover a range of topics, including:

• Card Sorting
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Architecture/User Experience
• Usability
• User-Centred Design
• User Interface Design

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Lists Hosted by Syntagm

These lists are moderated so that unsolicited email and flamings are not a problem. Postings must be relevant to the list and professional in tone and content. Announcements are generally not permitted on discussion lists. Moderation guidelines are similar to those for CHI-WEB.

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	Description
caps	Discussion list on computer-aided paper sorting – a new approach to card sorting used in navigation design and information architecture. (See our card sorting resources for further details.)
d4u	Design for usability newsletter. Articles and news on user-centred design plus occasional special offers. Low frequency.
ucd	User-centred design discussion list. Topics include usability, user interface design, contextual design, web design and accessibility.
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ACM Lists

These lists are hosted by the Association of Computing (ACM) in the US and managed on a voluntary basis by William Hudson unless otherwise noted (CHI-WEB has a whole team of moderators as well). Unfortunately, the ACM does not use the Listserv web interface so all subscription changes must be managed by email. (Send the single word "help" - without the quotes - as the body of a message to listserv@acm.org to get basic instructions on how to do this.)

To post to these lists, send plain text email with no attachments to the list name at acm.org (e.g. chi-web@acm.org).

	Description
chi-jobs	CHI-related job postings (not moderated by William Hudson).
chi-announcements	Primarily academic. Announcements of not-for-profit courses, events and conferences.
chi-resources	Academic and commercial resources for the CHI community. Courses, books, services, facilities, etc. are all welcome.
chi-web	Large discussion list focused on HCI and the Web. Can be quite high volume, so see the CHI-WEB faq for instructions on subscribing to the daily digest. (CHI-WEB is moderated by a team of volunteers led by William Hudson.)

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Other UCD/Usability/HCI Lists

These lists have no connection with Syntagm or William Hudson. Some are even unmoderated!

Usability & HCI News (Announcements Only)

	Description
Alertbox	Jakob Nielsen's regular pronouncements on web usability.
BCS-HCI	British HCI Group News (includes job postings).
HFI Newsletter	HCI newsletter from Human Factors International.
Usability News (UK)	Usability news, jobs and events (UK based but international content)
Usability News (Kansas)	Same name, different list. Research-oriented usability news from Wichita State University.
User Interface Engineering	Interesting articles on web usability and user experience (Jared Spool).

Information Architecture/User Experience/Other

	Description
AIGAExperienceDesign	Experience design list.
Hans de Graaff's HCI lists	Details of HCI and related lists.
IAwiki	Primarily IA but many general HCI, UCD and usability lists mentioned ("wiki wiki" is Hawiian for "quick").
sigia-l	Large, unmoderated list on information architecture.
STC Usability SIG	Usability list from the Society for Technical Communication.
sui	Speech user interfaces.
UPA-Voting	Dedicated to international e-voting issues (usability, accessibility, security etc.)

UK

	Description
London Usability	Unofficial home of the UK UPA. Mostly web oriented. Unmoderated, but only subscribers are allowed to post, so very little spam.
UK Usability	Mostly web oriented. Hosted and moderated by chinwag.

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