introduction
1. human
2. computer
3. interaction
4. paradigms
5. design basics
6. software process
7. design rules
8. implementation
9. evaluation
10. universal design
11. user support
12. cognitive models
13. socio-organizational
14. comm and collab
15. task models
16. dialogue
17. system models
18. rich interaction
19. groupware
20. ubicomp, VR, vis
21. hypertext and WWW
references

CHAPTER 1
the human

outline

links

resources

exercises

• ismy.blue - self-test website where your blue-green boundary lies compared with others. Created by Patrick Mineault aftera debite with hsi wife and reported in The Guardian
• Fitts's Law: The Importance of Size and Distance in UI Design - practical user interface deisgn implications of Fitts' Law at interaction-design.org
• Hard Feelings: Science's Struggle to Define Emotions - short article by Julie Beck in The Atlantic giving an overview of curret state of emotion research
• How the Eye Functions - (Internet Archive) beautiful 1941 short video introduction to the mechanics of the eye (also available on YouTube)
• Making Medication Safer - short docuentary presented by James Reason, one of the foremost experts on human error
• Auditory Illusions at Illusion Forum
• Project Implicit - Methods for uncovering unconscious beliefs and attitudes try a demo test.
• Demonstrations of Auditory Illusions by Kyushu Institute of Design
• A new look at seeing - a model of the primary visual cortex
• e3 online! as others see - a brief introduction to colour blindness
• Senses Challenge from the BBC - a series of online tests that show you some of the ways senses inform and sometimes decieve us
• How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision - from the US National Health Museum: rapid tour from the structure of the eye down to the chemicals that we use to sense light
• www.vischeck.com - colour blindness links, plus online tools and downloads to enable you to see how things look for colour blind users
• Vision Science - an internet portal for research in human and animal vision, lots of resources, links, events, etc.
• Causes of Color and Color Vision and Art parts of WebExhibits - a beautiful and informative web site about all aspects of colour
• Resource listing from the Psycholinguistics and Visual Cognition Laboratory, MSU
• The touch laboratory at Queen's
• Touch, Gesture & Marking
• all about Fitts' Law
• online demo of Stroop effect at Tiscali
• Seeing hearing and smelling the world
• Virtual tour of the ear
• The Theory into Practice database at psychology.org includes articles on mental models and memory and other aspects of cogition
• Theories and Hypotheses Related to Cognitive Architectures – nice site at Universty of Michegan with summaries of major ideas in cognitive architecture including tpcis such as bounded rationality and power law of practice