COMP 675 Winter 2000: Other Material

This page contains links to other relevant material. I'll try to expand it over time; if you find something useful, send me an email.

Old Exams

Follow this link to old exams from previous terms.

Design Guidelines and Principles

Apple General Design Principles

Ben Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design

Books

HCI 2e - Dix, Finlay, Abowd, Beale
Directory of /pub/cs/distribs/clewis
Transparencies Shneiderman

Suggested Readings on HCI, UI, and HF
SIGCHI Curricula in HCI
JavaScript Can Improve the Human Factors of Your Web Pages
Interface Hall of Shame
Bad Human Factors Designs
Guide to Usability for Software Engineers (GUSE)

Similar Courses

User Interface Design Guidelines : The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
Chauner: User Interface Design Guidelines : General Guidelines
U Birmingham HCI Contents Page (Beale)
GA Tech: CS 6751 Fall 1998 Home Page
U of Maryland:CMSC 434 Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems
Uof Maryland: Guide to Usability for Software Engineers (GUSE)
George Mason U: SWSE 632 Course Syllabus
Millersville CS425 Spring 1998

Societies

ACM SIGCHI Education
ACM SIGCHI HCI Education Survey

WWW Resources

CSIRO HCI resources
GA Tech:CS 6751 Fall 1998 Web Pointers
Beale: Information Resources
HCI Web Sites
The HCI Bibliography: Human-Computer Interaction Publications and Resources
Human-Computer Interaction Resources on the Net
Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires

http://www.useit.com/

Jakob Nielsen bi-weekly Alertbox column on Web usability. Clear and convincing explanations on what works and what doesn't when it comes to cyberspace. Includes an archive of essays and helpful links. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.baddesigns.com/index.shtml

A lot of fun staff! A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles By Michael J. Darnell. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.cora.justresearch.com/Human_Computer_Interaction/index.html

Cora is a Computer Science Research Paper Search Engine. This is the section on Human Computer Interaction. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~siegman/GUI_history.html

An unofficial list of claimed historical origins for many of the various human interface concepts that make up the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for various mainframe and personal computers, notably the Macintosh computer. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.syntagm.co.uk/guipage.htm

GUI Design Resources from Syntagm. Contains tips, bibliography, links to other related pages, etc. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.usableweb.com/

Usable Web is a collection of links about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/

Human Interface Technology Laboratory - Research in human-machine interfaces. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.sun.com:80/cgi-bin/show?sun-on-net/uidesign/designstory.html

Interface Design for Sun's WWW - Summary of design concepts for web pages, from the designer of Sun's web page. Includes examples. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.liquid.org/

Liquid Organization - Dedicated to improving the flow of information, implementation ideas and philosophy  mingle in an esoteric forum. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/hci/

Making Computing an Everyday Thing - IBM site is a useful repository of guidelines, ideas, graphics, reviews, and other resources for human-computer interaction. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.best.com/~jthom/usability/

Usability Methods Toolbox - Contains a glossary of methods in usability testing. Includes some suggested reading. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-05.html

User Interface Design - Text-only bibliography of works and journals relating to user interface design. [Victoria Kiricenko]

http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/bam/www/toolnames.html

User Interface Software Tools - Index of interface implementation and design tools. Mostly commercial, but with some freeware tools. [Victoria Kiricenko]

I appreciate the contributions of pointers as indicated by the names in square brackets.

Franz Kurfess
Last modified: Tue Feb 8 19:12:24 EST 2000