The HCI Sites page is a collection of resources on Human-Computer Interaction. It replaced Keith Instone's HCI Virtual Library (originally the HCI Launch Pad).
In addition to the link cateogries below,
the HCI Webliography also maintains special-interest lists of links on:
- ISRG: Interactive Systems Research Group
English
Canada, Ontario, Toronto
2009-06-28
Scott MacKenzie
York University
- Stop Password Masking
2009-06-23
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Usability suffers when users type in passwords and the only feedback they get is a row of bullets. Typically, masking passwords doesn't even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.
- AGConsult: web usability & information architecture
English, Dutch, French
Belgium, Boom
2009-06-17
Karl Gilis
AGConsult
karl.gilis@agconsult.be
AGConsult is a Belgium based company of web usability experts and information architects.
We do research, teach seminars and give advice about web usability to private companies and government agencies.
- Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations
2009-06-08
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.
- Apple User Experience Guides
2009-06-07
- Box of Ease User Interfaces
English
India, Karnataka, Bangalore
2009-06-01
Satheesh Nair
Box of Ease
satheesh@boxofease.in
Box of Ease is an Usability and User Experience Design Consultancy in Bangalore, India, providing specialized Graphic
User Interface (GUI) design services for enterprise applications and web based internet products for a wide range of
business domains, User Interface technologies and delivery mediums.
- Investor Relations (IR) on Corporate Websites
2009-05-25
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Individual investors are intimidated by overly complex IR sites and need simple summaries of financial data. Both individual and professional investors want the company's own story and investment vision.
- GroupLens Laboratory
English
United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis
2009-05-21
Angela Brandt
University of Minnesota
gladmin@cs.umn.edu
GroupLens is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We
conduct research in several areas, including recommender systems, online communities, mobile and ubiquitious technologies,
digital libraries, local geographic information systems.
- TableTop Interaction Laboratory, t2i Lab, Chalmers
English
Sweden, Gothenburg
2009-05-21
Morten Fjeld
CSE, Chalmers
fjeld@chalmers.se
The objective behind Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) is to allow users to interact with computers through familiar
tangible objects, thereby taking advantage of the richness of the tactile world combined with the power of computer-based
simulations. TUIs give physical form to digital information, employing physical artifacts both as representations and
controls for computational media. They lend themselves well to collaboration around intelligent tables, or what we call
tabletop interaction. The t2i Lab at Chalmers TH is a group of researchers and talented students pushing the edge of
interactive technology. We do this primarily by constructing TUIs and tabletop, large-display User Interfaces (UI).
- Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen
2009-05-14
Jared M. Spool
User Interface Engineering
The goal of a designer is to make their site disappear.
- Top-10 Information Architecture (IA) Mistakes
2009-05-11
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Structure and navigation must support each other and integrate with search and across subsites. Complexity, inconsistency, hidden options, and clumsy UI mechanics prevent users from finding what they need.
- Usability Onderzoek en Testen
Dutch
Netherlands, Noord-Brabant, Tilburg
2009-05-07
Alex Otten
Estate Internet Solutions
im@estate.nl
Company that designs websites for international companys and uses usability research to increase ROI
- Designing for Faceted Search
2009-04-28
Stephanie Lemieux
Earley and Associates
- World's Best Headlines: BBC News
2009-04-27
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Precise communication in a handful of words? The editors at BBC News achieve it every day, offering remarkable headline usability.
- Online, unmoderated user testing
English
Australia
2009-04-21
Loop11
Loop11
administration@Loop11.com
Loop11 is a web-based user-experience testing tool, allowing companies to conduct remote, unmoderated user testing on
any kind of digital interface.
Loop11 provides the ability to gain detailed insights and understandings of user behaviour. These insights are obtained
via a live interactive environment where users are asked to complete a series of tasks and questions on your website or
interface. All interactions are captured, processed and made available in real-time reports.
Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool helping you to understand user behaviour.
- IA Task Failures Remain Costly
2009-04-16
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Task success is up substantially compared with usability statistics from 2004. Bad information architecture causes most of the remaining user failures.
- Visuelle Kommunikation im Print- und Digitalbereich
German
Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hansestadt Rostock
2009-04-08
Mike Schönfelder
medienlab | werbeagentur
kontakt@medienlab.de
- First 2 Words: A Signal for the Scanning Eye
2009-04-06
Jakob Nielsen
useit.com
Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.
- ExperienceU - User Experience Research & Design Company in Prague, Czech Republic
English, Czech, Slovak
Czech Republic, Prague
2009-04-04
Stepan Doubrava
ExperienceU - Usability Consultancy Company
info@experienceu.com
ExperienceU provides top quality usability and user experience services including user research, user testing,
interaction design and others. We are located in Prague, Czech Republic and operate also in Slovakia and other European
countries.
- Click User Experience: Seattle usability consultant
English
United States, WA, Seattle
2009-04-03
Jenny Blackburn
Click User Experience
jenny@clickux.com
Click UX provides usability and user research consulting in the greater Seattle area.
- CHIstory
2009-04-02
Michael Bernstein
If I have seen farther, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants...and then I looked down at those giants and saw the silly videos they made back in the day. CHI Video Showcase 2009.