RESOURCES

Reading Resources

The textbook that will be used throughout the course is:

Rogers, Y. Sharp, H. and Preece, J. (2002) Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction. Wiley & Son.

It has an accompanying website where lots of extra materials, including lecture slides can be found at www.id-book.com

For a full list of reading resources please download resources.pdf

Web Resources

HCI Sites

The BCS HCI site which provides a list of degree courses in HCI, and a good definition : http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/ The BCS HCI group also has an affiliated usability site with the latest news on it : http://www.usabilitynews.com/

Gary Perlman has over the years compiled a range of HCI resources and links. Includes definitions, recommended readings, articles on usability, HCI glossary, and most frequently cited authors : http://www.hcibib.org/

HCI-index provides a range of pointers, including ‘what’s new in HCI' : http://degraaff.org/hci/

Usability

Jacob Nielsen's alertbox : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

Bruce Tognazzini's AskTog : http://www.asktog.com/

EU - funded project collating 'usabilty resources for practioners and managers' : http://www.usabilitynet.org/home.htm

UPA usability resources : http://www.upassoc.org.usability_resources/

Usability methods toolbox : http://www.jthom.best.vwh.net/usability/usable.htm

Mikael Ericsson from Sweden developed a portal of HCI resources including PhD theses. Sadly not updated since 1998, but still a good archive of stuff : http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/

This is a great site to visit to find examples of bad design. It provides a wonderful scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow interaction design principles. It is put together by Michael J. Darnell and has won various awards : http://www.baddesigns.com/

A book called Task-Centred user interface design’ is freely available on the internet (see shareware agreement). It can be found at : http://hcibib.org/tcuid/

Usability and HCI portal : http://www.usableweb.com/

Professional Associations and Usability Events

You should join the BCS HCI newslist, which provides valuable information on jobs, conferences, etc in HCI in the UK and abroad. To receive HCI news, send the message: "JOIN BCS-HCI your_firstname your_lastname" to jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk. To actually join the British HCI Group, contact hci@bcs.org.uk. For more information about this see : http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/

The UK Usability Professionals Association : http://www.ukupa.org.uk/

For information about usability events (mostly in London) : http://www.louiseferguson.com/events.htm

AIGA experience design : http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?contentalias=edlondon