Human-Computer Interface Design and Evaluation

CS 4750 Fall 2001

Additional readings

In addition to the required textbooks, there are a number of supplemental readings which will be distributed during the course. This page lists these readings. Papers not available on-line will be handed out in class.

• Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, 2000. An excellent overview of the many contributions of the PARC researchers. We will be focussing on two chapters that describe the origins of the modern GUI desktop interface.
• Stuard Card, Thomas Moran and Allen Newell. The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1983.
  We will be reading a short excerpt from the beginning of this classic book that details some performance characteristics of the perceptual, motor and cognitive subsystems of humans. (PDF)
• I. Scott MacKenzie. Movement time prediction in human-computer interfaces. Graphics Interface'92, pp 483-493. (HTML)
• E. L. Hutchins, J. D. Hollan and D. A. Norman. Direct manipulation interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 1, pages 331-338, 1985.(PDF)
• Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century. Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 933-940. A printed copy will be distributed in class.

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