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- From: Andrew.Cohill@vtssi.vt.edu (Andrew Michael Cohill)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Standards for software usability?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:31:40 GMT
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- The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has sponsored an ANSI
- standards group on HCI since 1985. While in the beginning the group was
- primarily concerned with developing US standards, much of our effort in
- the last five years has been focused on providing draft standards and
- proposals to equivalent ISO groups.
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- This has been with the encouragement of ANSI, which recognizes that it
- does little good to push national standards that are out of sync with
- world efforts. It's been a long process, but over the next year or two
- we expect to begin publishing much of our work in one form or another.
- Many of the ISO documents are also close to being approved at least as
- draft standards.
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- Andrew Cohill
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- Member, HFES Committee on HCI Standards
-