The HCI Bibliography, Perlman [1991], is a free-access online bibliographic database on human-computer interaction, which is avaliable under the following URL: This service is also provided at the Graz University of Technology :
The Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Library is a meta-index of information on human-computer interaction on the Web. It lists and reviews pages that have collections of pointers to HCI information. This Virtual Library is located at
The Association for Computational Linguistics has a Special Interest Group on Multimedia Language Processing (SIGMEDIA ) which can be reached at
In the context of the IUI-97 conference a special Web page has been set up which indexes WWW resources likely to interest people who work on intelligent user interfaces. This document provides an interesting collection of pages related to Intelligent User Interface design and applications. The information is located at:
ETAI , the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, are organized and published under the auspices of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI ) and provide a novel forum for the exchange of scientific results. As yet, it is not attempted to cover the full range of Artificial Intelligence but to concentrate on a limited number of specialized research areas. The field of Intelligent User Interfaces constitutes one of the first speciality areas for the new ETAI service. The main entry point for the Electronic Transactions is located at For each speciality area a so-called electronic colloquium has been established which offers a specific News Journal, a calendarium, access to scientific articles that have been submitted to ETAI , and also many pointers to the literature in the corresponding subfield.
The News Journal of the area for Intelligent User Interfaces can be accessed directly at The entire electronic colloquium related to the field of Intelligent Interfaces is available from
Detailed information concerning i3 , the long-term research pro-active initiative on ``Intelligent Information Interfaces'' funded by the EU's ESPRIT program, is provided through i3net from the following address: Additional material is available from the i3 home page located at:
The World Wide Web home page of the working group on ``User Interfaces for All'' of ERCIM , the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, is located at: The site contains in particular the electronic proceedings of the annual workshops organized by the working group.
Online information concerning the Computer Graphics Network of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM ) is available directly from the ERCIM Web site:
Detailed information concerning XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is available from the World Wide Web Consortium under the following address: E. R. Harold maintains an excellent XML news and resource site which can be reached at: Another interesting source for latest information on XML is XML.com located at: The World Wide Web Consortium also provides interesting online information regarding SMIL, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. The corresponding entry point on the W3C Web site is:
The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) is a non-profit organisation established to promote the development of specifications of generic agent technologies that maximise interoperability within and across agent-based applications. Several of the distinct parts of the FIPA specifications, which are under continuous development, are of particular interest for related development activities within the field of intelligent user interfaces. These parts of the specification concern for example personal assistants and human-agent interaction.
The FIPA home page is located at: The FIPA 97 specification and the evolving FIPA 98 specification are accessible at the following locations:
Detailed information concerning the Experimental School Environments program as part of i3 , the long-term research pro-active initiative on ``Intelligent Information Interfaces'' funded by the EU's ESPRIT program, is provided through the European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces (i3net ) from the following address:
Practical examples for online information services that employ intelligent agent technology on the World-Wide Web include the following sites: Excite Product Finder , formerly named Jango, is a tool which searches hundreds of online stores and related Web sites for up-to-the-minute product review and pricing information. FIDO is an agent for comparison shopping on the World Wide Web. This system is accessible from: Kasbah is MIT 's agent-mediated electronic marketplace. It is an ongoing multi-agent system research project to help realize a fundamental transformation in the way people transact goods - from requiring manual effort and constant monitoring to a system where software agents do much of the work on each user's behalf. Kasbah is located at:
The Personal Picture Finder searches for photos of people on the World Wide Web. The system is available under the following address: