Various readings and references
Three texts on user interface:
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, Alan Cooper, IDG Books Worldwide, 1995.
Human Performance Engineering, Robert W. Bailey, Prentice Hall, 1996.
Human-Computer Interaction, Alan Dix, Finlay, Aboud & Beale, Prentice Hall, 1998.
Useful links:
Usable Web -- "785 links about web usability"
The AlertBox -- "current issues in web usability"
HCI Sites -- links on Human Computer Interaction from ACM's SIGCHI
HCI at Stanford -- the graduate programs at Stanford are headed by Terry Winograd -- probably the most noted authority in the field. Check out the Stanford Interactive Workspaces Project and the Stanford Digital Libraries Technology Project.
Bailey library:
The Bailey library has extensive databases of main stream academic journals. Many are available in full-text form so that you may actually read the up-to-date article from the comfort of your computer.
Journals:
E-zines (reputable):
ACM interactions magazine -- from the Association for Computing Machinery -- I think we can now gain access to this through Bailey Library.
In Bailey library:
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition.
- Learning and motivation.
- Cognitive psychology.
- Memory & cognition.
- Communications of the ACM.
- Computers in society.
- IBM systems journal.
- Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
subtopics:
navigation -- taxonomy, cataloging and classification, indexing, searching, hypertext link structures
Rapid Navigation in OnLine Documents by Michael Hoffman
accessibility -- readability, disability, culture, gender, language
human cognition & perception -- the nervous system, learning & memory, problem solving
social issues -- collaboration, workgroup dynamics
evaluation -- qualitative and quantitative methods
design -- from aesthetics to marketing
maintenance -- coding issues, multiple authorship, site consistency,
history and case studies--
Graphical User Interface Gallery
MouseSite - from Stanford University -- a site exploring the history of human computer interaction
other?