Human-Computer Interaction

CS 6751 Winter 1999 (Section B)

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• Conferences of interest
  • CHI'99
  • CSCW'98
  • UIST'99
  • INTERACT'99
• General resources
  • The HCI Bibliography
  • Envisioning Information, by Edward Tufte.
  • HCI Resources on the Net
  • Usability Resources
• Organizations
  • ACM SIGCHI
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • The British HCI Group
• Heuristics and design
  • Bad Human Factors Designs
  • 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.
• 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
• Web design
  • More than you ever wanted to know about Web design.
• Modelling
  • GOMS information
  • David Kieras.
  • Peter Polson.
  • Tom Moran.
  • Fitts' Law lecture
• Task Analysis
  • A former student's summary on task analysis, containing good historical perspective
  • Another former student's summary on task analysis, containing good example
• User Interface Software
  • A former student's summary of UI programming.
  • Another overview of GUI programming, with a focus on some specific tools.
• CSCW
  • Jonathan Grudin and his article on CSCW challenges and an article on CSCW history.