Human-Computer Interaction

HCI is a multi-disciplinary field

Goals of the HCI research field are improving interaction between human and computer improving communication and cooperation between humans

References

Anthologies

Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Editors): "The New Media Reader".
The MIT Press, 2003, ISBN: 0-262-23227-8
http://www.newmediareader.com/
Review: http://www.game-research.com/art_rev_newmedia.asp

Terry Winograd (Editor): "Bringing Design to Software".
Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN: 0-201-85491-0
http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/
Review: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_design_software.asp

Brenda Laurel (Editor): "The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design".
Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN: 0-201-51797-3
http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0201517973
Review: http://www.cdli.ca/~elmurphy/emurphy/laurel.html

Books

Thomas K. Landauer: "The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity".
The MIT Press, 1996, ISBN: 0-262-62108-8
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=5775&ttype=2
Review: http://www3.sympatico.ca/cypher/computers.htm
Review: http://www.cognetics.com/papers/charlie/charlie8.html

Ben Shneiderman: "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies".
The MIT Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-262-19476-7
http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/feature/leonardoslaptop/
Review: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_leonardo.asp

Donald A. Norman: "The Design of Everyday Things".
New York: Basic Books, 2002 (orignal release: 1988), ISBN: 0-465-06710-7
http://www.jnd.org/books.html
Review: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/everyday-things/

Lucy A. Suchman: "Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication
(Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive & Computational Perspectives)".
Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN: 0-521-33739-9
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521337399/
Review: http://www.informatik.umu.se/~mjson/hcipd/suchman.html

Robert Spence: "Information Visualization".
Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-59626-1
http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product?ISBN=0201596261
Review: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_info_vis.asp

Jef Raskin: "The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems".
Addison-Wesley, 2000.
http://humane.sourceforge.net/humane_interface/
Review: http://humane.sourceforge.net/humane_interface/hollands_review.html

Wikipedia Articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topics_in_human-computer_interaction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_manipulation_interface

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_theory_(education)

Journal Articles

Brad A. Myers: "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology".
ACM interactions, March 1998, pp. 44-54.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/uihistory.tr.html

Eugene Eric Kim: "A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools".
Dr. Dobb's Journal, May 2004.
http://www.blueoxen.org/papers/0000D/

Edwin L. Hutchins, James D. Hollan, Donald A. Norman: "Direct Manipulation Interfaces".
Human-Computer Interaction, 1985, Volume 1, pp. 311-338
http://hci.ucsd.edu/120/2003/direct-manip.pdf (PDF, 344 KB)

Kirsten Wagner: "Informations- und Wissensorganisation anhand räumlicher Ordnungsmodelle:
Das Spatial Data-Management System der Architecture Machine Group als Fallbeispiel".
Wolkenkuckucksheim, 2000
http://www.tu-cottbus.de/BTU/Fak2/TheoArch/Wolke/X-positionen/Wagner/wagner.html

Daniel J. Gonçalves, Joaquim A. Jorge: "Ubiquitous Access to Documents: Using Storytelling to Alleviate Cognitive Problems".
Proceedings HCI International 2003
http://www.inesc-id.pt/pt/indicadores/Ficheiros/941.pdf (PDF, 27 KB)

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: "Instrumental Interaction: An Interaction Model for Designing Post-WIMP User Interfaces".
Proceedings of CHI 2000, pp. 446-453.
http://www.daimi.au.dk/CPnets/CPN2000/download/chi2000.pdf (PDF, 408 KB)

Vannevar Bush: "As We May Think", 1945
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml

Articles

Stefan Decker, Martin Frank: "The Networked Semantic Desktop", 2004.
http://server2.tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/we-sw-2004/DeckerFrank.pdf (PDF, 300 KB)

Matthias Müller-Prove: "Vision and Reality of Hypertext and Graphical User Interfaces" (Thesis), 2002.
http://www.mprove.de/diplom/

Chris Dent: "The Computer as Tool: From Interaction to Augmentation", 2001.
http://www.burningchrome.com:8000/~cdent/slis/l542/useTools.htm

Dick Berry: "The user experience: GUI versus the Web", 2000.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-berry2.html

Matthias Müller-Prove: "The Interface of Kai Krause's Software", 1999.
http://www.mprove.de/script/99/kai/

Courses / Seminars

Prof. James D. Hollan: "Human-Computer Interaction" (COGSCI 120). Course at University of California, San Diego
http://hci.ucsd.edu/120/

Prof. Terry Winograd: "Introduction to HCI" (cs147). Course at Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs147/schedule.html

Jason Hong: "The Past, Present, and Future of Interactive Computing" (CS39I). Seminar at University of California, Berkeley.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jasonh/cs39i-seminar/

Projects

Jef Raskin: Flash-Demo of a zooming GUI.
http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/zoom.html