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HCI Publications and Other Information
This section lists various sorts of publications: weblogs, columns, journals, magazines, papers, reports, theses, web sites, etc.
de Graaff, Hans. HCI Index. Resources>Human Computer Interaction>Online
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A variety of tools to help do HCI-related work better or easier.
de Graaff, Hans. HCI Index. Resources>Human Computer Interaction>Software
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An application that, using an inexpensive camera, lets users control a mouse pointer by aiming their face around the screen.
IBM (2006). Resources>Software>Accessibility>Microsoft Windows
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A bibliography of 847 citations in health risk communication.
Zorn, Marcia and Scott Ratzan. NIH (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>Risk Communication>Biomedical
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Market overview of recommendable tools for creating software documentation, especially for the creation of user manuals and online help files. Many of these help authoring tools can generate printable user manuals (PDF) and onlne help files from the same text base (single source publishing principle).
Achtelig, Marc. indoition engineering. Resources>Software>Tools>Help
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Help Authoring Tools and Techniques Mailing List
A mailing list for help authors to discuss tools and techniques.
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This is a site that links you to Web sites useful for finding venues and writing for publication.
Murdick, William. Comcast (2001). Resources>Directories>Publishing>Writing
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A page about each of the major online Help technologies: HTML Help, JavaHelp, WebHelp, WebWorks Help, WinHelp, and WinHelp 2000.
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A directory of hundreds of examples of online software documentation, categorized and rated by users.
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HelpScribe Technical Communication offers tips on writing technical manuals, help authoring, software documentation, and managing a TC career.
HelpScribe (2008). Resources>TC>Technical Writing>Blogs
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A weblog for writers of documentation and users of Help Authoring Systems.
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Welcome to the home of The Helpware Group. Here you will find support for MS HTML Help 1.x and MS Help 2.0, FrontPage and Delphi. We are based in Melbourne Australia. Enjoy the site.
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HERA: Accessibility Testing with Style
HERA is a tool to check the accessibility of Web pages accoridng to the specification Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0). HERA performs a preliminary set of tests on the page and identifies any automatically detectable errors or checkpoints met, and which checkpoints need further manual verification.
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A free online tool to analyze the accessibility of websites. With Hermish, make your pages comply to accessibility guidelines. Accessibility relates to section 508 and priority levels.
Slinn, Gareth. Hermish (2004). Resources>Web Design>Accessibility>Section 508
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Heuristic evaluation is a form of usability inspection where usability specialists judge whether each element of a user interface follows a list of established usability heuristics. Expert evaluation is similar, but does not use specific heuristics. Usually two to three analysts evaluate the system with reference to established guidelines or principles, noting down their observations and often ranking them in order of severity. The analysts are usually experts in human factors or HCI, but others, less experienced have also been shown to report valid problems. A heuristic or expert evaluation can be conducted at various stages of the development lifecycle, although it is preferable to have already performed some form of context analysis to help the experts focus on the circumstances of actual or intended product usage.
UsabilityNet (2005). Resources>Usability>Methods>Heuristic Evaluation
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A usability evaluation method in which one or more reviewers, preferably experts, compare a software, documentation, or hardware product to a list of design principles and list where the product does not follow those principles.
Usability Body of Knowledge. Resources>Usability>Methods>Heuristic Evaluation
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What's this Hey Hey IA thing all about? Well, it's a resource-hub for Information Architects. Created to serve fellow IAs, I'm hoping the community will support this site and send along information on good books, sites, events, lists, etc.
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A resource for members of the Honyaku mailing list, and anyone interested in Japanese/English translation.
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How Can It Cost That Much? A Three-Year Study of Proposal Production Costs 
New business proposals to the U.S. Department of Defense vary so much in their production requirements that it has never been easy to estimate the cost to prepare them. Worse, new proposal managers lack the experience to anticipate the work required to prepare a winning proposal. In many companies, marketing and technical communication organizations find it exceptionally difficult to estimate and acquire the realistic budgets needed to win. For the past three years, we have closely examined significant proposal efforts and discovered the six pillars of our department's proposal preparation costs. We have also derived a formula that characterizes proposal preparation costs in our environment. Our Cost Projection Factor estimate can be calculated in a minute and has demonstrated accuracy within 5 percent. Our purpose in preparing this article is not to reveal our proprietary proposal costs, but to demonstrate that a quick, accurate cost model can be developed for proposal publishing.
Wiese, William C. and C. Mal Bowden. Technical Communication Online (1997). Resources>Grants>Proposals
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How to Convert a PowerPoint Presentation to Play on a DVD Player 
This tutorial guides you through how to convert your PowerPoint presentations to play on a home dvd player. It's great for showing presentations without a computer.
Simmons, T.A.J. Awesome Backgrounds for PowerPoint (2004). Resources>Presentations>Video>Microsoft PowerPoint
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How to Work with U.S. Government Agencies and Obtain Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
A collection of resources for people interested in writing grant proposals toward U.S. government agencies.
Kluge, Deborah L. Proposalwriter.com (2005). Resources>Grants>Proposals>Government
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This website was created to help your inner author navigate through the mires of book-writing, tell you how to write a book and explain the author-publisher relationship.
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A How to Write a Project Proposal
Writing a good proposal is a very important tool for organizing time and resources to complete a project which fully realizes your objectives. Whether the proposal is done as a PQP for credit separate from the one-unit project, or as the first fraction of credit towards the one-unit requirement, a project proposal will be invaluable in structuring your ideas about carrying out your research and writing your conclusions. Some faculty use it as an informal 'Contract' to establish an agreement about the content and limits of the final project report. Also, since the project proposal is a widely used communications tool in the professional world, you will have the advantage of learning what goes into a proposal as part of your undergraduate education.
Worchester Polytechnic Institute (1999). Resources>Document Design>Proposals>Africa
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How You Can Make Plain English Work for You
Plain English is good, clear writing which communicates as simply and effectively as possible. But it is not a childish or simplistic form of English.
Government of Australia (2003). Resources>Writing>Rhetoric>Minimalism
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A collection of 23 HTML tutorials for students of web design.
Webmonkey (2001). Resources>Web Design>Education
