Harold Thimbleby
“Writing, editing & publishing” only

1.Writing, editing & publishing — Publications: refereed
1.1.Journal papers: refereed
1.2.Contributions to edited volumes: refereed
1.3.Conference papers: refereed
2.Writing, editing & publishing — Invited presentations, exhibitions, debates, workshops
2.1.Other invited conference presentations
2.2.Other invited lectures, webinars, and seminars

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1. Writing, editing & publishing — Publications: refereed

1.1. Journal papers: refereed

H. Thimbleby, “Improving Science That Uses Code”, Computer Journal, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1381–1404 (2024). DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxad067

H. Thimbleby, “Pirate Talks — How to prepare and deliver excellent presentations”, Journal of Interaction Science, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 1–19 (2017).

H. Thimbleby, “Signposting in Documents”, Computer Journal, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1119–1135, OUP (2010). PDF DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxq061

H. Thimbleby, “Explaining Code for Publication”, Software — Practice & Experience, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 975–1001 (2003). URL http://harold.thimbleby.net/warp/index.html PDF DOI: 10.1002/spe.537

H. Thimbleby, “Specification-led Design for Interface Simulation, Collecting Use-data, Interactive Help, Writing Manuals, Analysis, Comparing Alternative Designs, etc”, Personal Technologies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 241–254 (1999). URL http://harold.thimbleby.net/ansim/index.html PDF DOI: 10.1007/BF01885563

1.2. Contributions to edited volumes: refereed

H. Thimbleby, “We Need Reliable text”, The Future of Text, F. A. Hegeland (editor), vol. 5, pp. 152–155, Future Text Publishing (2024).

H. Thimbleby, “Getting mixed text right is the future of text”, The Future of Text, F. A. Hegeland (editor), vol. 3, p. tbc, Future Text Publishing (2022).

H. Thimbleby, “Intentionally Parallel Text”, The Future of Text, F. A. Hegeland (editor), vol. 2, pp. 184–185, Future Text Publishing (2020).

H. Thimbleby, “Write Now!”, Research Methods for Human-Computer Interaction, P. Cairns & A. Cox (editors), pp. 196–211, Cambridge University Press (2008). PDF

H. Thimbleby, “An Author’s Cross–Referencer”, Computers and Writing, P. O’B. Holt & N. Williams (editors), pp. 82–98, Intellect Books (1992). DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2854-4_7

1.3. Conference papers: refereed

H. Thimbleby, “Creative Writing in Hypertext: Beyond Linking Concepts”, Proceedings Conference on Computers & Writing, vol. VI (1993).

H. Thimbleby, “Low tech LaTeX”, Proceedings Computers & Writing, M. Sharples (editor), vol. IV, pp. 124–130, Brighton (1991).

2. Writing, editing & publishing — Invited presentations, exhibitions, debates, workshops

2.1. Other invited conference presentations

H. Thimbleby, “Systematic Web Authoring”, The Missing Link: Hypermedia Usability Research & The Web, Open University (1996).

M. A. Addison & H. Thimbleby, “Hyperdoc Demonstration”, BCS Conference on People and Computers, HCI’94 Demonstration Session (1994).

H. Thimbleby, “Author’s Cross Referencing”, BCS Software Engineering Specialist Group, Manchester (1988).

2.2. Other invited lectures, webinars, and seminars

H. Thimbleby, “From research to writing”, UCL (2009).

H. Thimbleby, “Reliable software publishing”, Newcastle University (2006).

H. Thimbleby, “Mathematical Approaches to Hypertext”, Centre for Electronic Arts, London (1995).

H. Thimbleby, “Creative Hypertext”, University of York (1993).

H. Thimbleby, “Cross Referencing”, Stanford University, California (1988).


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