Human-Computer Interaction

CS 4750b Summer 2003

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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
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
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
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
- 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
Assistive Technology

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