Related Sites - Human Computer Interaction:universal usability . org
Provides the definition and foundation for the topic of universal usability in addition to introducing researchers and practitioners to five perspectives on universal usability. Universal usability involves understanding how users attempt to accomplish tasks using a variety of technologies in different organizational and social contexts. And researchers and practitioners have a wide range of approaches and methods available to apply to this range of user-system interactions. (2001-07-29)Usability of Computer Security: A Bibliography
This is a collection of references relating to the usability of computer security that contains two types of papers: some are from the security literature and relate to user interfaces or the usability of security systems, while others are from the HCI literature and relate to privacy, user needs or user studies of security systems. (2001-05-06)Jef Raskin's Homepage
This site contains information about Jef Raskin's book Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems and various articles he has written. (2000-11-12)The People-Centered Way
This mission of this web site is to promote the principles of People-Centered Thinking throughout the business community, and to identify and celebrate the successful implementation of this thinking in companies around the world. (2000-10-22)"For Better Software!" Monthly
This site is dedicated to the software usability, reliability, human-computer interaction, user interface design. It contains a series of monthly article on various aspects and problems with software interface design. (2000-07-30)Make it Easy 2000 - Conference Papers
Papers presented at IBM's Make it Easy 2000 Conference. Some of the titles include: "User Assistance: the end of User Manuals" ; and "Helping users perform complex tasks.." (2000-06-11)The Human Interface Design Principles
This site "...presents a set of principles useful for designing products for Macintosh computers. "... these principles can help clarify what you can do in order to design a product based on what is known about people and how they operate in the world." (2000-04-16)Usability.org
This site serves the internet community as a usability resource, with contributions coming the four web disciplines - developers, designers, architects and the business people, who all have their own view of things. (2000-03-19)Basic Color & Design SBFAQ
"...this SBFAQ is intended to fill a gap between the highly technical aspects of color and design. It consists of 6 parts. The first two cover questions about basic color psychophysics and the third covers color appearance and perception." (2000-02-27)The Aging Eye
This article contains information on the loss of visual acuity as we age. It also provides some guidelines on designing systems for older people. (2000-02-27)European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces
The i3 community is about design, technology and people. It's about computer systems in the lives of ordinary people. And it's about advanced high-risk research into the future. (2000-02-20)InteractionArchitect.com
According to the site description InteractionArchitect is ":...the knowledge base and meeting space on designing usable and useful interactive systems." (2000-02-13)patricklynch.net
This web site contains a links, information and articles about web site and user interface design. Pat Lynch is Design Director at the Yale University School of Medicine's Web Design and Development Unit. and co-author of the Yale Web Style Guide. (2000-02-13)GVU Research Center
Research at GVU encompasses a broad spectrum of activities, many of which deal with human-centric computing and with the use of new media and modalities. (2000-02-13)VoiceWizard.com
The VoiceWizard.com web site has information and resources on voice recognition and speech technology. (2000-02-13)Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
"The online center for the cognitive science of metaphor is dedicated to the dissemination of papers and research work on metaphor. The Center is designed to bring together work on metaphor from a number of related disciplines." (2000-02-06)Fitts' Law
Fitts' law is an effective method of modeling rapid, aimed movements, where one appendage (like a hand) starts at rest at a specific start position, and moves to rest within a target area. The law can be used to assist in the design of user interfaces. The Fitt's Law Java Demo is particularly interesting. (2000-01-30)Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)
HCII research and educational programs span a full cycle of knowledge creation. It starts with the fundamental understanding of how people work, play, interact with each other, and learn. Technologies and tools to support these human activities are created and employed in systems to serve a specific activity. These systems are evaluated in the field through carefully designed experiments. (1999-12-27)ACM SIGCHI Intercultural Issues
This page contains links to information on intercultural issues in human-computer interaction, including but not limited to: internationalization, globalization, localization, language and translation, and standards. (Jul-26-98)Ask Tog
Bruce "Tog" Tognazzine's site on software interface design. The site contains articles and advise on interface design. (Sep-02-98)ZDNet DevHead Usability Section
This ZDNet DevHead section contains articles about web site usability. Many of the articles are written by Jacob Nielsen. (Oct-18-98)Ergonomics at Work
This site contains some very good articles on the ergonomics of computer use, including some on the legibility of text in computer software. (1999-08-22)Good Documents
This web-site discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet. (Jul-05-98)Interaction and Information Design Resources
This website contains an extensive set of links to online resources for Interface, Interaction, Information and Visual Design. (Dec-06-97) page.Interface Interest and Research Group
A group of instructional designers interested in practical application of research to the design of instructional and performance support software.The HCI Bibliography
You can use this site to search over 16,000 bibliographic entries. The search results contain the bibliographic reference and an abstract of the article. Some of the articles are online. (Jul-26-98)Human Behavior and the Web
This section of the CIO Magazine website contains links to many articles and sites with information about web site design and usability. (Jan-15-99)Human-Computer Interaction Resources Network
This well organized site has a growing body of information about software interface design, usability testing and other human factors issues. It is highly recommended. (Apr-04-98)Human-Computer Interaction - Resources on the Net
This website contains links to Human-Computer Interaction resources on the Internet. The site has many links to computer interface guideline and standards documents. (Nov-26-96)HFI Design Magic site
This website contains some guidelines and ideas for designing computer interfaces. Of particular interest are the sections labeled Examples, Color, Layout and Wording.Human Factors International - Online Articles
This site contains nine articles about interface design. (Nov-26-98)The IBM Human Computer Interface Site
This site contains a mix of information about IBM's Human Computer Interface philosophy and practice. The site is more advertising than substantial information about HCI, but it's an interesting study in design. (May-11-97)The GUI Guy Site
This small site has a very interesting design and a few PowerPoint slides that illustrate some graphical user interface design goofs made by a major software developer. (May-11-97)Java Software Human Interface
These pages contains information on the JavaTM look and feel, papers, guidelines, an invitations to participate in usability studies and other topics related to Human Interface. (1999-09-18)Journal of Design Science
This webzine contains articles about web and interface design. You can also submit an interface crime report on systems that have a bad interface design. (Jul-05-98)UI Cafe
This website contains articles about software and web page design. (Sep-02-98)UI Design
This site contains information, links and original articles about the use of patterns in user interface design. (Mar-13-99)User Interface Design Workbook
According to the web master "This workbook covers a range of theoretical and professional topics relating to research and development in user-interface design. Its main purpose is to ensure a breadth of coverage of issues which are important in their own right in raising awareness of the work of the user-interface design specialist." (Nov-27-98)User Interface Digest
This site contains articles and information about interface design, human factors, ergonomics, CSCW and groupware, social impacts of technology, virtual reality, information design, visual interaction design, visualization, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and object oriented technology. (Feb-07-99)VRI UI Index
This site contains a very comprehensive and well organized list of user interface and human factors sites. (Feb-01-98).