Human-Computer Interaction

CS 4750 Spring 2003

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• Georgia Tech Local Information
  • Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU)
  • GVU Brown Bag seminar series
  • GVU Distinguished Lecture Series
• Conferences of interest
  • ACM SIGCHI-sponsored conferences
  • The ACM CHI conference
    • CHI 2003
    • CHI 2001
    • CHI 2000
    • CHI 1999
  • The ACM User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'99
  • CSCW 2002
  • CSCW 2000 Home Page
  • INTERACT'99
• General resources
  • The HCI Bibliography
  • Envisioning Information, by Edward Tufte.
  • HCI Resources on the Net
  • Usability 1st
• Organizations
  • ACM SIGCHI
  • CHI*A, ACM SIGCHI Atlanta Chapter
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • The British HCI Group
• Heuristics and design
  • Bad Human Factors Designs
  • Hall of Shame
  • useit.com
  • HCI Resources: Guidelines, styleguides, standards
• People
  • Allen Newell, Herb Simon and their theory on intelligence.
  • Bill Buxton and his list of novel input devices.
  • Alan Dix and his Myth of the Infinitely Fast Machine.
  • Howard Rheingold and the online version of his book, Tools for Thought.
  • Hiroshi Ishii and his research group on, Tangible Media.
  • Jakob Nielsen and his useit.com site. Jakob also runs a consulting company with Don Norman called the Neilsen Norman Group.
  • Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini and his Ask Tog Webzine.
• Evaluation
  • A local primer on questionnaire design
  • A not-so-local primer on questionnaire design
  • Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires, by Gary Perlman
  • Jakob Nielsen's Heuristic Evaluation site, containing several tutorial guides
  • Jakob Nielsen on discount usability techniques. This essay gives some empirical evidence on the true costs and benefits of various low-cost usability techniques.
• Web design
  • Ten Good Deeds in Web Design: guidelines from Jakob Nielsen.
  • More than you ever wanted to know about Web design.
  • Usable Web: the "ultimate comprehensive collection of useful links." Judge for yourself.
  • GVU Web surveys, marketing surveys indicating information about Web user population.
  • The good
    • Creating Killer Websites
    • Project Cool Website
  • The bad
    • Web pages that suck!
  • Navigation examples
    • Site map
    • Use of frames
    • Example of navigation button bars
    • Table of contents
• Modelling
  • GOMS information
  • Free GOMS tutorial.
  • A GOMS bibliography.
  • David Kieras.
  • Peter Polson.
  • Bonnie John.
  • Wayne Gray.
  • Tom Moran.
  • Fitts' Law lecture
• Task Analysis
  • Another former student's summary on task analysis, containing good example
• User Interface Software
  • Listing of user interface tools, compiled by Brad Myers from Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Visual Basic On-Line Resources, a local on-line resource page.
  • A former student's summary of UI programming.
  • Another overview of GUI programming, with a focus on some specific tools.
• CSCW
  • CSCW'2000 Home Page
  • CSCW'98 Home Page
  • CSCW'96 Home Page
  • Listing of previous CSCW conferences
  • ECSCW'97 Home Page
  • CSCW: The Journal of Collaborative Computing
  • CSCW: A Book of Readings, edited by Irene Grieff
  • Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work : Assisting Human-Human Collaboration, edited by Ron Baecker.
  • Usability First CSCW and Groupware Resource page
  • Jonathan Grudin and his article on CSCW challenges and an article on CSCW history.
• Speech and Natural Language
  • Lucent Technologies Text-to-Speech
  • Orchestrate
  • Commercial speech recognition
  • ELIZA
  • ALICE natural language interface.
• Pen and Gesture input
  • Quikwriting system by Ken Perlis at NYU.
  • T9 Text input by Tegic Communications, Inc.
  • Cirrin circular, word-leve unistroke input device, invented by Jennifer Mankoff at Georgia Tech's FCE Group .
  • On-line handwriting recognition demo (flakey) from Paragraph. They also have a game called Terec
  • Some handwriting recognition resources
    • The International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition IWFHR'98
    • International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR'99
    • International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • A brief overview of gesture recognition, by Charles Cohen, as part of Computer Vision On-Line.
  • Gesture Recognition Home Page
  • StuPad system paper by Truong, Abowd and Brotherton at UIST'99.
  • NotePals, a group note-taking system, developed by James Landay at UC Berkeley.
  • The SILK system, also developed by James Landay at UC Berkeley.
  • The Perceptual User Interface Workshop
    • PUI'98
    • PUI'97
• Nonspeech Audio
  • ICAD - International Community for Auditory Display
  • Earcons - Stephen Brewster
• Web Interface Design
  • Jacob's Nielsen's home page
  • Web Review Design tips
  • Web Techniques magazine
  • Web design fundamentals
  • User Interface Engineering
  • Project Cool Design help
  • Mining Company design help
  • WebReference resources
  • Web design and graphic resources
  • Cnet's web resources
  • Yale design manual
  • Microsoft WWW Usability Research
  • Guide to web usability resources
  • The Design Studio
  • Crystal Waters' site
  • Cool site of the day
  • Project Cool site of the day
  • Web pages that suck
• Assistive Technology
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped (SIGCAPH)
  • ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies
  • NSF Research Focus on UNIVERSAL ACCESS
  • Trace Research and Development Center
  • Georgia Tech Center for Rehabilitation Technology

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