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The information below was supplied by Dr. Erika Rogers of the Cal Poly Computer Science Department, with input from the SLO STC Chapter, and will be updated and expanded over time. | ||||||||||
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Professional Organizations
| ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) | http://www.acm.org/sigchi |
| ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction | http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cdg/ |
| Human Factors International (HFI) | http://www.humanfactors.com/ |
| Information Design Organization | http://www.InformationDesign.org |
| San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI | http://www.baychi.org |
| Society for Technical Communication | http://www.stc.org |
| Society for Technical Communication Special Interest Group (SIG) on Usability | http://www.stcsig.org/usability |
| Usability Professionals' Association | http://www.upsassoc.org |
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Suggested
readings in human-computer interaction (HCI), user interface (UI) development,
& human factors (HF) by Gary Perlman |
| A user interface
design bibliography http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-05.html |
| "Where
Humans and Machines Meet" (Computerworld News & Features Story) http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,58971,00.html |
| Human Technology
Interface Lab at University of Washington - Design Links http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/tfurness/courses/inde599_sp01/designlinks_sp01.html |
| Recommended
Readings, Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd. http://www.foruse.com/publications/bibliographies/recommended.htm |
Newsletters:
| Human Factors
International e-newsletter (archive) http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/pastissues.asp |
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Society for
Technical Communication Special Interest Group (SIG) on Usability (online
newsletter and archive) |
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Society for
Technical Communication Special Interest Group (SIG) on Special Needs
(online newsletter and archive) |
| Cooper
Web site newsletter http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters.asp |
| UI
Design Webzine for Interaction Designers http://www.uidesign.net/ |
| Boxes
and Arrows discussion forum and article archive http://www.boxesandarrows.com/ |
Usability Bookseller Web Sites:
| Amodeus
Books, Chapters and Videos http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/amodeus/bc.html |
Books: (Amazon.com links)
| A Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Joseph S. Dumans and Janice C. Redish | ISBN 1841500208 |
| Human-Computer Interface Design Guidelines, by C. Marlin Brown | ISBN 1871516544 |
| Developing User Interfaces by Deborah Hix and H. Rex Hartson | ISBN 0471578134 |
| Envisioning Information, by E. R. Tufte | ISBN 0961392118 |
| Handbook of Usability Testing by Jeffrey Rubin | ISBN 0471594032 |
| The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman | ISBN 0465067107 |
| The Human Factor, by R. Rubinstein and H. Hersh | ISBN 0932376444 |
| The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper and Paul Saffo | ISBN 0672316498 |
| The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by E. R. Tufte | ISBN 0961392142 |
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The Icon Book, Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation, by William Horton |
ISBN 0471599018 |
| Things That Make Us Smart, by Donald A. Norman | ISBN 0201626950 |
| Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction by Mary Beth Rosson and John M. Carroll | ISBN 1558607129 |
| User-Centered Web Design by John Cato | ISBN 0201398605 |
| Visual Cues - Practical Data Visualization, by P.R. Keller and M.M. Keller | ISBN 0818631023 |
| HCI Index - a collection of links to many types of resources on human-computer interaction | http://degraaff.org/hci/index.html |
| The
16th British HCI Group Annual Conference, incorporating European Usability
Professionals' Association Conference (HCI 2002) |
http://cise.sbu.ac.uk/hci2002/ |
| HCI Educators Workshop | http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hcie2003/ |
| List of conferences and workshops | http://degraaff.org/hci/conference.html |
| Usability First - Web site design | http://www.usabilityfirst.com/websites/index.txl |
| Web Style Guide | http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ |
| Interaction design - books on UI design and usability testing, including sections on the Web | http://www.user.com/books1.htm |
| Interaction design - special needs for Web design | http://www.user.com/web.htm |
| Color contrast and partial sight | http://www.lighthouse.org/color_contrast.htm |
| Alan Cooper's Web site - insights, articles, and more | http://www.cooper.com/ |
| Jakob Nielsen's site | http://useit.com |
| Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini's site | http://askTog.com/menus/designMenu.html |
| U. Maryland resources - Guide to Usability for Software Engineers | http://otal.umd.edu/guse/ |
| US Dept. of Labor research paper - "A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design" | http://www.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st970120.htm |
Examples of Good Interface Designs
| Commart's Design Interact site | http://www.designinteract.com/ |
| Gloria Gery's list of links to sites on good design | http://www.pcd-innovations.com/web_site_designs.htm |
| Gloria Gery's list of links to award-winning design samples | http://www.pcd-innovations.com/samples.htm. |
Examples of Bad Interface Designs
| Bad Human Factors Designs site | http://www.baddesigns.com/index.shtml |
| Vincent Flanders' site | http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ |
| Jeff Johnson's site | http://www.gui-bloopers.com/more_bloopers.asp |
| Gloria Gery's list of links to sites on bad design | http://www.pcd-innovations.com/bad_design.htm |
Usability Evaluation
| Research-based Web design and usability guidelines (National Cancer Institute) | http://www.usability.gov/guidelines/ |
| Washington University's WebTango site (automating Web site evaluation) | http://webtango.ischool.washington.edu |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web metrics |
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/WebTools/tech.html |
| Richard Waller's Sixty Ticks for a Good Website | http://www.waller.co.uk/eval.htm |
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Heuristic evaluation |
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic |
| Flash vs. HTML: A usability test (Dack.com) | http://www.dack.com/web/flashVhtml/ |
| International Society for Ecological Psychology | http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/ecopsyc/isep.htm |
| Collection Data Usage Reference Site | http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/projects/respect/urmethods/methods.htm |
| Focus Group Dimensions | http://www.focusgroupdimensions.com/nature.htm |
| VeriSign - SuperStats (Web site intelligence) | http://www.mycomputer.com/index2.html |
| NVivo software for qualitative analysis | http://www.qsr.com.au/products/products.html |
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MacShapa software for observational data analysis |
http://www.aviation.uiuc.edu/institute/acadprog/epjp/MacShapa.html |
| Robert Niles' site on statistics and data analysis | http://nilesonline.com/stats/ |
Universal Access
| Society for Technical Communication Special Interest Group (SIG) on Special Needs | http://www.stcsig.org/sn/index.shtml |
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Ethics of computers and the disabled |
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~jake/cs201/ethics.html |
| Professor Stephen Hawking, physicist | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hawking/ |
| Human Factors International accessibility overview | http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/accessibility.asp |
| Information on technology-related issues and disabilities (Trace Research & Development Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison) | http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web |
| Distance Education: Access Guidelines for Students with Disabilities, and other standards (Chancellor's Office of California Community Colleges) | http://www.htctu.fhda.edu/standards/standardsmain.htm |
| Gateway for information about Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act [The Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA), US General Services Admin. Office of Governmentwide Policy] | http://www.section508.gov |
| AWARE Center (Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education, HTML Writer's Guild) | http://aware.hwg.org/ |
| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium | http://www.w3.org/WAI |
Usability Labs at Academic Institutions
| Georgia Tech University Usability Lab | http://www.cs.gatech.edu/gvu/lab/descriptions/usability.html |
| Interactive Media Lab, University of Toronto | http://anarch.ie.utoronto.ca/ |
| Usability Center at the Extended University of Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) | http://eu.spsu.edu/UsabilityCenter/index.htm |
Usability Labs at Research Institutions
| OCLC Usability Lab, Online Computer Library Center | http://www.oclc.org/usability/index.htm |
Usability
Labs at Companies
| Microsoft Usability Lab | http://www.microsoft.com/usability/default.htm |
| Siemens Usability Lab | http://www.sea.siemens.com/software/product/uslab.html |
| Sun Usability Labs | http://www.sun.com/usability/ |
Usability Labs for Rent
| Otivo Rental Usability Lab | http://www.otivo.com/services/ulab.html |
| Ovo Studios Usability Labs | http://www.ovostudios.com/ |
| Sachs Insights Services: Usability Lab Rental | http://www.sachsnet.com/services/usability_lab.html |
| System Concepts Usability Lab | http://www.system-concepts.com/about/labhire.html |
Articles and White Papers on Usability Labs
| Usability.gov: Usability labs, portable and fixed | http://www.usability.gov/methods/labs.html |
| UIWEB.COM - The Power of the Usability Lab | http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue06.htm |
| Usability Laboratories Survey | http://www.useit.com/papers/uselabs.htm |
Tools & Utilities
| dg_coder: An editor, IDE and user interface designer for Java, free for personal use | http://www.execpc.com/~dgregoir/ |
| SubArctic: a Java-based user interface toolkit under development at Georgia Institute of Technology | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ui/sub_arctic/ |
| "Programmers
to encode human behaviour" (New Scientist) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991192 |
| "A
Function Specific to Joy - Are we ready for computers that know how we feel?"
by Harvey Blume http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc980429.htm |
| "The
Interface Revolutionary" (Computerworld News & Features Story) http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-81_STO57255,00.html |
| "Scientist
Says It's Time to Change 'Virtual Tupperware' System" USA Today (02/20/02)
P. 3B; Maney, Kevin http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020220/3875435s.htm |
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"Reading
your mouse movements" (BBC News, SCI/TECH) |
Smart Buildings
| Georgia Tech | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/seminar/fa98-info/smart_homes.html (If link is broken, then click here.) |
Industry & Research Info
| Xerox PARC | http://www.parc.xerox.com/parc-go.html |
Wearable Computers
| "Finally,
a computer you can wear" by David F. Salisbury www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/february10/webserver210-a.html |
| "That
Computer Looks Great on You" Wired News (03/12/02); King, Brad http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50975,00.html |
