Publication Resources

Rankings for Journals and Conferences

• ERA Rankings maintained by John Lamp
• HCI top publications by Google Scholar
• HCI top journals by Microsoft Academic Search
• HCI top conferences by Microsoft Academic Search
• HCI conference rankings by Antti Oulasvirta
• CS Journal rankings by CORE (Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia)
• IS Journal ranking by ACPHIS (Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems)
• IS Journal rankings by AIS (Association of Information Systems)

Journal Collection

• ACM Digital Library
• Interaction-Design.org list of Journals and Periodicals, maintained by Mads Soegaard
• Index of Information Systems Journals  maintained by John Lamp
• HCI Publications maintained by Gary Perlman

Conference Collection

• Association for Information Systems list of conferences
• Interaction-Design.org calendar of events (including Up-coming conferences and approaching-deadlines)

HCI Journals

This is a selection of journals broadly relevant to HCI and Interaction Design. The journals are grouped according to ANZ Fields of Research (and codes). The ERA ranking for each journal is shown in brackets.

Information Systems [0806]

• ACM Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction (A*)
• ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS archive)
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work (B)
• Computers in Human Behavior (B)
• Human IT: Journal of information technology studies as a human science (B)
• Interacting with Computers (B)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (B)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (A)
• International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (C)
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (B)
• Universal Access in the Information Society (C)

other journals in Information and Computing Sciences [08 and 08xx]

• Behaviour and Information Technology (A) [0801]
• Human Computer Interaction (A) [08]
• Journal of Community Informatics (B) [0807, 0899]
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (C) [0805] 3.639
• Presence (B) [0801]
• Pervasive and Mobile Computing (B) [0805]

Design Practice and Management [1203]

• Artifact (C)
• CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and Art (A)
• Design Issues (A*)
• Design Principles and Practices (B)
• Design Studies (A*)
• Digital Creativity (A*)
• International Journal of Design (B)

Other unranked HCI related journals

• AIS Transactions of HCI
• Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
• Cognition, Technology & Work
• Design Observer: Writings on Design and Culture
• Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
• Interactions
• International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing
• Journal of CyberTherapy and Rehabilitation
• Journal of Usability Studies

HCI Conferences

This is a selection of conferences relevant to HCI. The conferences are grouped according to ANZ Fields of Research (and codes). The ERA ranking for each conference is shown in brackets.

Information Systems (0806)

• AUIC - Australasian User Interface Conference (B)
• CHI - ACM SIGCHI Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems (A)
• CSCW - ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (A)
• DIS - Designing Interactive Systems (B)
• DUX- Designing for User eXperience (B)
• ECSCW - European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (B)
• HCI - British HCI Conference (A)
• INTERACT - IFIP Technical Committee No 13 on Human-Computer Interaction (A)
• ACHI - International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (C)
• MobileHCI - Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (B)
• NordiCHI - Nordic forum for human-computer interaction research (C)
• OZCHI - Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (B) (OZCHI on ACM DL)
• SIGCHI-NZ - SIGCHI New Zealand Conference on Human Computer Interaction (C)

Design Practice and Management (1203)

• APCHI - Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (C)

unranked HCI conferences

• ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Communities and Technologies
• HCI International

HCI in Australia

Australian Associations and Contacts

• CHISIG - The Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of HFESA (CHISIG on Facebook)
• HCS Net - The ARC Network in Human Communication Science
• HxI Initiative
• UX Melbourne
• Web Industry Professionals Association
• University of Melbourne experts in Human-Computer Interaction

Australian HCI Industry and Businesses

• Automatic Studio (Shane Morris) http://automaticstudio.com.au/ 
• Design 4 Use (John Murphy) 
• Dey Alexander Consulting http://www.deyalexander.com.au/
• Different http://www.different.com.au/
• HISER http://www.hiser.com.au/ 
• Ideal Interfaces (Oliver Weidlich) http://www.idealinterfaces.com.au/
• Information & Design (Gerry Gaffney) http://www.infodesign.com.au/
• Interaction & Interface Design (Sheryl Lumb) http://www.iidesign.com.au/
• Manifesto (Peter Thomas) http://www.manifesto-research.com.au/
• Mobile Experience (Rod Farmer & Oliver Weidlich) http://mobileexperience.com.au/
• Objective Digital (James Breeze) http://www.objectivedigital.com/ 
• Peak Usability (Tania Lang) http://www.peakusability.com.au/
• Stamford Interactive http://www.stamfordinteractive.com.au/
• Symplicit http://www.symplicit.com.au/ 
• Usability One http://www.usabilityone.com/ 
• ui3 (Rae Young) http://www.ui3.com.au/ 
• Web Usability (Roger Hudson) http://www.usability.com.au/

Labs offering usability services around the world can be found at Global Usability Knowledge Management

General HCI Resources

Professional Organisations

• CHISIG (http://www.chisig.org/) site for the Australian HCI community (and CHISIG mailing list)
• SIGCHI (http://www.acm.org/sigchi/) site for the US based body (and collection of HCI discussion lists)
• BCSHCI (http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/) the HCI group of the British Computer Society
• IxDA (http://www.ixda.org/) Interaction Design Association
• UPA - Usability Professionals' Association (http://www.upassoc.org/usability_resources/) collection of resources
• STC - Society for Technical Communication (http://www.stcsig.org/usability/resources/) collection of usability resources

Individuals and Companies (in USA)

• AskTog - Bruce Tognazzini (http://www.asktog.com/tog.html)
• IBM (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/ucd/ucd.html) overview of user centered design approaches at IBM
• JND - Don Norman (http://www.jnd.org/) 
• Microsoft User Research (http://www.microsoft.com/userresearch/default.mspx)   
• Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com/) 
• UseIt - Jacob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com/jakob/) 

Collections

• Bad Human Factors Designs (http://www.baddesigns.com/) takes a perverse look at user centred design 
• Boxes and Arrows (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/)
• HCI Bibliography (http://www.hcibib.org/) is a useful starting point for the HCI and usability literature
• Interaction-Design.org (http://interaction-design.org/) a free, open, peer reviewed site of interaction design stuff
• OK/Cancel (http://okcancel.com/)
• Usability First (http://www.usabilityfirst.com/) an all round, uptodate, summary of topics and collection of resources
• Usability Body of Knowledge (http://www.usabilitybok.org/) - a UPA project dedicated to creating a living reference that represents the collective knowledge of the usability profession
• Usability Methods Tool box (http://usability.jameshom.com/index.htm) by James Hom. No longer updated, but a useful summary of HCI methods
• Usable Web (http://usableweb.com/) by Keith Instone. No longer updated (last update 2003), but interesting collection of web specific HCI resources