Archives- ISE 164
Suggested Reading- S1
- A new look at seeing - a model of the primary visual cortex
 - How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
 - colour blindness- online tools
 - Vision Science
 
Suggested Reading -S2
- Causes of Color and Color Vision
 - Color and Color Vision
 - Resource listing from the Psycholinguistics and Visual Cognition Laboratory, l
 - The touch laboratory at Queen's
 - Touch, Gesture & Marking l
 - 4 mental techniques
 - All about Fitts' Law
 - Mental Model
 - The Theory into Practice
 
Suggested Reading -S3-S4
- case study - Excel mode error
 - Pixelcentric's Interface Hall of Shames
 - What Are You Looking At? Google Details Results of Eye Tracking Study
 - Study: Seeing Red, Blue Affects Outcome Of Tasks
 - GUI icons in Marcin Wichary's Guidebook
 
Suggested Reading -Session 5
- Trace Research and Development Center - universal design
 - Boxes and Arrows: The Design behind the Design
 - Scenarios
 - Incorporating Navigation Research Into a Design Method
 - Zebra Tables
 - Dialogical techniques for the design of web sites - IJHCS paper
 - Survey Monkey- Create Survey
 - Online web-based Surveys at Zoomerang.com-Create Survey
 - ZAPSurvey-Create Online Survey
 
Suggested Reading -Session 6
- Usability engineering resources
 - Bluffers Guide to ISO 9241
 - software-engin.coms
 - Guide to Usability for Software Engineers
 
Suggested Reading -Session 7-8
- UI Patterns and Techniques -
 - Martijn van Welie's pattern collection for web design
 - The Design of Sites - Patterns, Principles, and Processes
 - SAP User Interface Standards
 - Apple Human Interface Guidelines
 - Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines
 - Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines
 - Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) Guidelines
 
Suggested Reading -S 9 and 10
- Alan's statistics tutorial
 - Heuristic Evaluation - A System Checklist
 - Gregory's Cognitive Walkthrough
 - usability testing "how to" from the IRM at the University of Colorado
 - Usability engineering resources
 - GATECH primer on questionnaire design
 - Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires, by Gary Perlman
 - Nielsen's ten usability heuristics
 - TechDis Evaluation Tools web accessibility evaluation
 - Thomas Green's Cognitive Dimensions a way of assessing the usability of notations
 - QuestionPro provide a free online survey tool for students and academics
 - SurveyMonkey another online survey tool
 - FreeOnlineSurveys.com yet another free survey tool!
 - Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports
 - Industry Usability Reporting
 - Usability Test Plan Toolkit
 - Tools- Noldus The The Observer XT 7.0
 - Tools- Morae Usability Testing for Software and Web Sites
 
Suggested Reading -S11
- GW Micro- Window-Eyes
 - Jaws
 - Ishihara Test for Color Blindness
 - Color Vision Deficiency
 - Universal Usability.org
 - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
 - Towards Accessible Human-Computer Interaction - Sun Microsystem
 - Utopia project - researching the relationship between older people and technology
 - www.vischeck.com
 
Suggested Reading -S12
- Craig Marion's links to Performance Support resources
 - Gordon Meyer's Usable Help - examining documentation and help systems for software and consumer products
 - opentag.com - tools and technologies used in the localization of software, on-line help and documentation
 - links to help authoring tools from Columbus State Community College
 - Help Technology Centre - resources and techniques for help systems
 - WritersUA - training and information for user assistance professionals
 
Suggested Reading -S13-14
- Virginia Tech pages on GOMS including movies and audio discussions
 - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
 - Two articles on GOMS by Bonnie John and David Kieras in ACM TOCHI 3(4) (Dec. 1996)
 - The Theory into Practice database at psychology.org includes articles on GOMS and SOAR
 - Knowledge Acquisition - a set of pages from Epistemics really aimed more at AI-style knowlegde
 - Paterno,F. (2000). Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications. London, Springer-Verlag.
 - J. Wesson, G. de Kock and P. Warren (1995). Task Analysis : The Missing Link in Software Development Methodologies, SAICSIT National Research and Development Seminar, Pretoria, 25-26 May 1995
 - Martijn van Welie's page on Groupware Task Analysis
 - D. Gillan, N. Cooke (1995). Methods of Cognitive Analysis for HCI, CHI'95 Tutorial, Denver, Colorado