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Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface (UI) Development, & Human Factors (HF)
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Gary Perlman.
The HCI Bibliography.
Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1989-.
Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1996-.
Available
on the Web at
http://hcibib.org/
or in
http://hcibib.org/listdir.cgi
Send email to:
director@hcibib.org.
This collection of recommended books for user interface developers
is based on searches of The HCI Bibliography, a free-access
online bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction.
Over 62,000 bibliographic entries on
books,
conference proceedings,
journal articles,
and websites
can be accessed electronically.
The bibliography contains the tables of contents of
almost all of the books listed.
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Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A. S. Buxton & Saul Greenberg (Editors).
Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000 (Second Edition).
Los Altos, CA: Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1995.
ISBN 1-55860-246-1.
This new version is very different from the first
and should be considered a different snapshot of the field.
An excellent introduction to the field.
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Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran & Allen Newell.
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983.
ISBN 0-89859859-1
This classic defines the early theoretical basis for HCI.
It is primarily for researchers.
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Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd & Russell Beale.
Human-Computer Interaction.
3rd Edition.
Prentice Hall, 2004.
ISBN 0-13-046109-1.
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Martin Helander, Thomas Landauer, Prasad Prabhu (Editors).
Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction.
Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1997.
ISBN 0-444-81862-6 (hardbound)
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ISBN 0-444-81876-6 (paperback).
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The second edition contains 62 papers and 1582 pages.
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Julie A. Jacko (Ed)
The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. (3rd edition)
CRC Press, 2012.
ISBN 978-1-4398-2943-1;
Updated for 2012.
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Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, & Harry Hochheiser
Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction,
Wiley, 2010.
ISBN 0-470-72337-8, 978-0-470-72337-1
An excellent overview of research methods in HCI,
from requirements analysis through evaluation,
including experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis.
The one methods book to use when you're using more than one.
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ACM SIGCHI Curriculum Development Group.
ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human Computer Interaction,
New York: ACM, 1992.
ISBN 0-89791-474-0; ACM Order Number 608920.
The report is available on the WWW at:
http://old.sigchi.org/cdg.
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This report defines the field of HCI,
describes four courses and full programs in HCI,
and provides resources for HCI education.
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Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald (editors)
HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community,
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
ISBN 0-262-05088-9.
Bottled inspiration.
A collaborative history of HCI in a series of essays about influential works by influential workers.
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Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, & Harry Hochheiser
Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction,
Wiley, 2010.
ISBN 0-470-72337-8, 978-0-470-72337-1
An excellent overview of research methods in HCI,
from requirements analysis through evaluation,
including experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis.
The one methods book to use when you're using more than one.
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Yvonne Rogers, Heken Sharp, & Jenny Preece
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction.
3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2011.
ISBN 0-470-66576-9, 978-0-470-66576-3.
I like this book as much as any on my list of recommended readings
(I liked it enough to write the foreword to the 1st edition).
While not as comprehensive as some books, it makes what I think
is a good depth/breadth tradeoff.
It goes into enough detail on core topics that practitioners can
use it as a guidebook.
It has the pedagogical features that
I like to see in a textbook (outlines, summaries, bibliography).
I think will be motivating to students and understandable to a
wide audience, which is important to be useful and usable by
multidisciplinary teams.
The book has a website, as should any book in the new millennium,
www.id-book.com,
which contains materials for students, teachers, and practitioners.
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Deborah Hix & H. Rex Hartson.
Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product and Process.
New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993.
ISBN 0-471-57813-4.
This book generated a lot of positive reviews when it came out.
The authors present a methodology for developing user interfaces,
including their User Action Notation (UAN) for representing
interaction between the user and the system.
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Clayton Lewis & John Rieman.
Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction.
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993.
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Plain text is available via anonymous
ftp,
with an HTML version on the World-Wide Web:
http://hcibib.org/tcuid/.
This is the first shareware book on UI design,
and more importantly,
it is a good practical guide to UI design and evaluation,
making it a good choice for a supplementary text
for software engineering courses.
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Deborah J. Mayhew
The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design
San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publshers, 1999.
ISBN 1-55860-561-4.
This book presents material from a decade of Mayhew's consulting and tutorials.
It is a complement to her book on
Principles and Guidelines.
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Jonathan Lazar (Ed.)
Universal Usability:
Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations.
John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
ISBN 0-470-02727-4.
With articles covering young and old users, users of multiple languages,
and many different accessibility issues,
this collection may be an antidote to developers writing software for themselves.
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Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Designing the User Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
(5th Edition, pp. 672, ISBN 0-321-53735-1, March 2009),
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
This popular book is in its 5th edition.
Although it is a survey of user interface development,
it can also be used as a guide for practitioners.
There is a
companion website for this book.
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Dan R. Olsen, Jr.
Developing User Interfaces.
Mountain View, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
ISBN 1-55860-418-9.
This is a book written for programmers of user interfaces.
It explains the fundamental algorithms used in interactive
graphical user interfaces.
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Randolph G. Bias & Deborah J. Mayhew (Eds.)
Cost-Justifying Usability: an update for an Internet age.
Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
ISBN 0-12-095811-2.
This updated collection contains 22 chapters devoted to
the demonstration of the importance of usability evaluation
to the success of software development.
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Joseph S. Dumas & Janice C. Redish.
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing.
Intellect, 1999
ISBN 1-84150-020-8
Updated edition.
This step-by-step guide provides checklists and offers insights
for every stage of usability testing.
The best guide to usability testing.
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Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, & Harry Hochheiser
Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction,
Wiley, 2010.
ISBN 0-470-72337-8, 978-0-470-72337-1
An excellent overview of research methods in HCI,
from requirements analysis through evaluation,
including experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis.
The one methods book to use when you're using more than one.
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Jakob Nielsen.
Usability Engineering.
Boston, MA: Academic Press, 1993.
ISBN 0-12-518405-0 (hardcover), 0-12-518406-9 (paperback).
This is a practical handbook for people who want to evaluate systems.
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Jakob Nielsen & Robert L. Mack (Eds.)
Usability Inspection Methods.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
ISBN 0-471-01877-5.
This book contains chapters contributed by experts on
usability inspections methods such as heuristic evaluation,
cognitive walkthroughs, and others.
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Jeffrey Rubin and Dana Chisnell.
Handbook of Usability Testing:
How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests.
2nd Edition.
New York: Wiley, 2008.
ISBN 0-470-18548-1.
This book contains templates for usability lifecycle documents.
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Robert L. Solso & Homer H. Johnson.
An Introduction to Experimental Design in Psychology: A Case Approach.
Fourth Edition.
New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
ISBN 0-06-046436-4.
Fifth Edition (1994) 0-06501142-2
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Sixth Edition (1997) 0-32101146-5
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This little book is an excellent introduction
to the logic of experimental design, confounding and controls
for non-specialists.
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Tom Tullis & Bill Albert.
Measuring the User Experience : Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008.
ISBN 0-12-373558-0.
Tom Tullis is a master of metrics and knows how to communicate results to the corporate world.
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Apple Computer, Inc.
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1992.
ISBN 0-201-62216-5.
There is an interactive animated companion CD-ROM to these Mac guidelines called
"Making it Macintosh", Addison-Wesley, 1993.
ISBN 0-201-62626-8.
Available on the Web
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Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
Amiga User Interface Style Guide.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991.
ISBN 0-201-57757-7.
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GO Corporation.
PenPoint User Interface Design Reference.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.
ISBN 0-201-60858-8.
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Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sunsoft Inc. & USL.
Common Desktop Environment: Functional Specification (Preliminary Draft).
X/Open Company Ltd.,
1993.
ISBN 1-85912-001-6.
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Microsoft Corporation (Tandy Trower)
The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design.
Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1995.
ISBN 1-55615-679-0.
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Microsoft Corporation
The Microsoft Windows User Experience.
Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1999.
ISBN 0-7356-0566-1.
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Microsoft Corporation (Nadine Kano)
Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1995.
ISBN 1-55615-840-8.
Superseding: The GUI Guide: International Terminology for the Windows Interface. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55615-538-7.
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NeXT Computer, Inc.
NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (Release 3).
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992.
ISBN 0-201-63250-0.
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Open Software Foundation.
OSF/Motif Style Guide.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.
ISBN 0-13-643123-2.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989.
ISBN 0-201-52364-7.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Functional Specification.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989.
ISBN 0-201-52365-5.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines.
2001.
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Gavriel Salvendy (Editor).
Handbook of Human Factors.
New York: John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN 0-471-11690-4 (2nd edition), 1997.
The second edition contains 60 chapters (over 2100 pages)
with more chapters on HCI.
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Martin Helander
A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics (Second edition)
CRC Press, 2005.
ISBN 0-415-28248-9.
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William S. Cleveland.
The Elements of Graphing Data.
Wadsworth.
ISBN 0-534-03730-5
1985.
This book has a chapter that covers good graphing practices.
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Aaron Marcus.
Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (ACM Press), 1992.
ISBN 0-201-54363-9; ACM Order number 703900.
This book contains many examples and includes a comparative
study of graphical user interfaces on different platforms.
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Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano.
Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques.
Sunsoft Press.
ISBN 0-13-303389-9
1995.
This book presents an unusually coherent analysis
of visual communication techniques as applied to user interfaces.
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Edward Tufte.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Graphics Press.
0-9613921-0-X
1983.
Tufte (pronounced "TUFF-tee") set the field on the right course
in this landmark book, emphasizing form and substance
in graphical presentation.
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Edward Tufte.
Envisioning Information.
Graphics Press.
ISBN 0-9613921-1-8.
1990.
In this second book,
Tufte provides more of a theoretical base for information presentation.
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Edward Tufte.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Graphics Press.
ISBN 0-9613921-2-6.
1997.
The third book from Tufte.
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Lynch and Horton.
Web Style Guide:
Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites.
1999.
The Yale Web Style Guide
is a widely-used comprehensive style guide.
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World_wide Consortium
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
1999-.
The WAI
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
describe how to make Web pages more accessible to people with disabilities.
A set of checkpoints and techniques are extremely valuable.
WCAG 2.0
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Beyond borders: Web globalization strategies.
John Yunker.
2003.
I like this book a lot because it begins with easier translations (from English)
and gradually builds up to harder ones (e.g., Asian languages, right-to-left languages).
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web accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance.
Jim Thatcher et al,
2006.
I ordered this book immediately because Jim Thatcher is my guide-of-choice to accessibility,
with his keen eye for practical information.
He is great at helping people build accessible applications.
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Rosenfeld and Morville.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd ed.
2002.
Rosenfeld and Morville apply library science to Web site design
and a readable and highly applicable book.
They started the
Argus Center for Information Architecture.
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King.
Website Optimization.
2008.
King's previous book with a similar name focused on an overlooked but critical aspect of website usability:
response time.
This new book has more of a focus on "conversion" (getting users to where they want to get),
but there is still material on response time.
A web site at
websiteoptimization.com
provides chanpter summaries, figures, links
to resources, and more.
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National Cancer Institute.
Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines.
2000-.
As the name implies, these guidelines are based on the best available research.
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