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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Human-Computer Interaction - General
• HCI Education
• User Interface Development - General
• User Interface Design - Principles and Guidelines
• User Interface Development - Software Tools
• User Interface Evaluation
• Guidelines for Specific Platforms
• Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Graphic Design
• Web Design

Introduction

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Human-Computer Interaction -- General

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	Ronald M. Baecker & William A. S. Buxton (Editors). Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Los Altos, CA: Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-934613-24-9. Details /  find in libraries This excellent collection of 59 papers (and those in the second edition) are integrated with clear and thought-provoking prose by the editors. This excellent introduction to the field is also a great value, making it the most used university text on HCI. Detailed table of contents is available on the web at: http://www.hcibib.org/bibdata/baeck87.bib
	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. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries 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.
	Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran & Allen Newell. The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983. ISBN 0-89859859-1 Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This classic defines the early theoretical basis for HCI. It is primarily for researchers.
	Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd & Russell Beale. Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-13-458266-7 (hardback); 0-13-437211-5 (paperback) only outside USA. 1998 (Second Edition) ISBN 0-13-239864-8. Book Website / Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is a broad introduction to HCI, including a clear statement of a user interface development process. It should be useful to researchers in training and practitioners.
	Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd & Russell Beale. Human-Computer Interaction. 3rd Edition. Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN 0-13-046109-1. Book Website / Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Martin Helander (Editor). Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988. ISBN 0-444-88673-7 (paper). Details /  find in libraries Detailed table of contents is available on the web at: http://www.hcibib.org/bibdata/helander.bib. This collection of 52 survey papers contains excellent reference material for both researchers and practitioners. The 1991 softcover edition is reasonably affordable.
	Martin Helander, Thomas Landauer, Prasad Prabhu (Editors). Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1997. ISBN 0-444-81862-6 (hardbound) Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries ISBN 0-444-81876-6 (paperback). buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries The second edition contains 62 papers and 1582 pages.
	Andrew Sears and Julie A. Jacko (Eds) The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. (2nd edition) CRC Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8058-5870-9; Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Updated for 2007.
	Julie A. Jacko and Andrew Sears (Eds) The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. ISBN 0-8058-3838-4. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Jacko and Sears pick up where Helander's Handbook of HCI left off, with a comprehensive set of chapters by leading experts in the field.
	Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, & Harry Hockheiser Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction, Wiley, 2010. ISBN 0-470-72337-8, 978-0-470-72337-1 Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries An excellent overview of research methods in HCI, including experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis.
	Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, David Benyon, Simon Holland & Tom Carey. Human-Computer Interaction. Wokingham, UK: Addison Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-62769-8. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is a good general HCI textbook. It is the first one to contain all the pedagogical features (examples, exercises, etc.) to make it good for undergraduate and graduate level use. Reviewed in SIGCHI Bulletin, 26:4, 82-84, 1994, available on the World-Wide Web at: http://www.acm.org/~perlman/preece.html.

HCI Education

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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. Details This report defines the field of HCI, describes four courses and full programs in HCI, and provides resources for HCI education.
	Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald (editors) HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that have Influences the HCI Community, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. ISBN 0-262-05088-9. Details / buy at amazon.com. /  find in libraries Bottled inspiration. A collaborative history of HCI in a series of essays about influential works by influential workers.
	Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, & Harry Hockheiser Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction, Wiley, 2010. ISBN 0-470-72337-8, 978-0-470-72337-1 Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries An excellent overview of research methods in HCI, including experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis.

User Interface Development -- General

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	Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, & Helen Sharp Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. ISBN 0-471-49278-7. Details / buy at amazon.com. /  find in libraries I like this book as much as any on my list of recommended readings (I liked it enough to write the foreword). 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. 2002-03-11
	Heken Sharp, Yvonne Rogers, & Jenny Preece Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. West Sussex, England, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007. ISBN 978-0-470-01866-8; 0-470-01866-6. Details / buy at amazon.com. /  find in libraries Updated for 2007
	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. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries 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.
	Clayton Lewis & John Rieman. Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993. Details 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.
	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. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This book presents material from a decade of Mayhew's consulting and tutorials. It is a complement to her book on Principles and Guidelines.
	Jonathan Lazar (Ed.) Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. ISBN 0-470-02727-4. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries 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.
	Gary Perlman, Georgia K. Green, & Michael S. Wogalter (Eds.) Human Factors Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction: Selections from Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meetings 1983-1994. Santa Monica, CA: HFES, 1995. ISBN 0-945289-05-7. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries A collection of 79 papers selected from the HFES annual meetings on the basis of a focus on HCI (particularly user interface development), importance, usefulness, and soundness of methodology. Over 3500 papers were considered, of which 150 were chosen for re-review by 50 members of the HFES Computer Systems Technical Group. Contents
	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. Details / buy at amazon.com / /  find in libraries 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.

User Interface Design -- Principles and Guidelines

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	Alan Cooper. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design. Foster City, CA: IDG Books, 1995. ISBN 0-56884-322-4. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries A collection of insightful essays by the father of Visual basic. Every page has an example of a mistake in a real system and a better way to do it. Sometimes I laughed out loud.
	Brenda Laurel (Editor). The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990. ISBN: 0-201-51797-3. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is a popular collection of inspiring readings on design.
	Deborah J. Mayhew. Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-721929-6. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is an excellent practical guide for effective design.
	Donald A. Norman. The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1988. ISBN 0-465-06709-3. Also published as The Design of Everyday Things, 1990, Doubleday ISBN 0-385-26774-6 (paperback).  find in libraries Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is a very popular book on good (and bad) design of the devices with which we interact on a daily basis, and as such it provides insights and inspiration about how to design usable software.
	Donald A. Norman & Stephen W. Draper (Editors) User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986. ISBN 0-89859-872-9 (paper). Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is an early set of readings that defined the idea of designing systems for users first.
	Richard Rubinstein & Harry Hersh. The Human Factor: Designing Computer Systems for People. Maynard, MA: Digital Press, 1984. ISBN 0-932376-44-4. Details /  find in libraries Although over 20 years old, this book still meets its billing of helping design systems for people.
	Sidney L. Smith & Jane N. Mosier. Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software. ESD-TR-86-278. Bedford, MA 01730: The MITRE Corporation, 1986. ISBN: 9992080418. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This set of guidelines is widely used in military systems, but is based on mid-80s technology with little on graphical user interfaces. HTML is available at www.hcibib.org/sam.
	Bruce Tognazzini. Tog on Interface. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-60842-1. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries A collection of inspiring columns by the user interface "evangelist" of the Apple Macintosh.
	U.S. Department of Defense. Military Standard: Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems, Equipment and Facilities. MIL-STD-1472D Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 14, 1989. Details /  find in libraries It is available on CD-ROM as part of CASHE:PVS. MIL-STD-1472f (PDF 23 August 1999) Section 5.15 of the 1472D standard is largely drawn from the MITRE guidelines.

User Interface Development - Software Tools

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	Len Bass & Joelle Coutaz. Developing Software for the User Interface. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-51056-4. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Dan R. Olsen, Jr. User Interface Management Systems: Models and Algorithms. Mountain View, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1992. ISBN 1-55860-220-8. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Dan R. Olsen, Jr. Developing User Interfaces. Mountain View, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. ISBN 1-55860-418-9. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is a book written for programmers of user interfaces. It explains the fundamental algorithms used in interactive graphical user interfaces.

User Interface Evaluation

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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. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This updated collection contains 22 chapters devoted to the demonstration of the importance of usability evaluation to the success of software development.
	Joseph S. Dumas & Janice C. Redish. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing. Intellect, 1999 ISBN 1-84150-020-8 buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Updated edition. This step-by-step guide provides checklists and offers insights for every stage of usability testing. The best guide to usability testing.
	Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, & Harry Hockheiser Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction, Wiley, 2010. ISBN 0-470-72337-8, 978-0-470-72337-1 Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries An excellent overview of research methods in HCI, including experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis.
	Jakob Nielsen. Usability Engineering. Boston, MA: Academic Press, 1993. ISBN 0-12-518405-0 (hardcover), 0-12-518406-9 (paperback). Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This is a practical handbook for people who want to evaluate systems.
	Jakob Nielsen & Robert L. Mack (Eds.) Usability Inspection Methods. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. ISBN 0-471-01877-5. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This book contains chapters contributed by experts on usability inspections methods such as heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthroughs, and others.
	Gary Perlman |STAT: Statistical Data Analysis, Available online A free package for data manipipulation and analysis available since 1979. Runs on UNIX/Linux, DOS/Windows, and Mac OS/X.
	Jeffrey Rubin. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests. New York: Wiley, 1994. ISBN 0-471-59403-2. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This book contains templates for usability lifecycle documents.
	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 Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Sixth Edition (1997) 0-32101146-5 buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This little book is an excellent introduction to the logic of experimental design, confounding and controls for non-specialists.
	Tom Tullis & Bill Albert. Measuring the User Experience : Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008. ISBN 0-12-373558-0. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Tom Tullis is a master of metrics and knows how to communicate results to the corporate world.

Styleguides for Specific Platforms

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	Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1992. ISBN 0-201-62216-5. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries 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
	Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Amiga User Interface Style Guide. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-57757-7. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	GO Corporation. PenPoint User Interface Design Reference. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-60858-8. Details / /  find in libraries
	Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sunsoft Inc. & USL. Common Desktop Environment: Functional Specification (Preliminary Draft). X/Open Company Ltd., 1993. ISBN 1-85912-001-6. Details / /  find in libraries
	Microsoft Corporation (Tandy Trower) The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1995. ISBN 1-55615-679-0. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Microsoft Corporation The Microsoft Windows User Experience. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1999. ISBN 0-7356-0566-1. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries | Available Online
	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. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Superseding: Available online from Microsoft /  find in libraries
	NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (Release 3). Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-201-63250-0. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif Style Guide. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-13-643123-2. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Palm OS User Interface Guidelines palmos.com/dev/support/docs/ui.
	Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-52364-7. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries
	Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Functional Specification. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-52365-5. Details / /  find in libraries
	Sun Microsystems, Inc. Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines. 2001. Details / Available Online

Human Factors and Ergonomics

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	Gavriel Salvendy (Editor). Handbook of Human Factors. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-88015-9 (1st edition), 1987. Details /  find in libraries The first edition was an excellent collection of 68 chapters (over 1800 pages) covering a wide range of human factors specialties. Detailed records with tables of contents are available on the Web.
	Gavriel Salvendy (Editor). Handbook of Human Factors. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-11690-4 (2nd edition), 1997. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries The second edition contains 60 chapters (over 2100 pages) with more chapters on HCI.
	Martin Helander A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics (Second edition) CRC Press, 2005. ISBN 0-415-28248-9. Details /  find in libraries

Graphic Design

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	William S. Cleveland. The Elements of Graphing Data. Wadsworth. ISBN 0-534-03730-5 1985. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This book has a chapter that covers good graphing practices.
	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. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This book contains many examples and includes a comparative study of graphical user interfaces on different platforms.
	Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano. Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques. Sunsoft Press. ISBN 0-13-303389-9 1995. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries This book presents an unusually coherent analysis of visual communication techniques as applied to user interfaces.
	Edward Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press. 0-9613921-0-X 1983. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries Tufte (pronounced "TUFF-tee") set the field on the right course in this landmark book, emphasizing form and substance in graphical presentation.
	Edward Tufte. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press. ISBN 0-9613921-1-8. 1990. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries In this second book, Tufte provides more of a theoretical base for information presentation.
	Edward Tufte. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Graphics Press. ISBN 0-9613921-2-6. 1997. Details / buy at amazon.com /  find in libraries The third book from Tufte.

Web Design

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	Lynch and Horton. Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. 1999. Details / Full text available online and in print from Amazon.com. /  find in libraries The Yale Web Style Guide is a widely-used comprehensive style guide.
	World_wide Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). 1999-. WAI Website 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
	Beyond borders: Web globalization strategies. John Yunker. 2003. Amazon.com /  find in libraries or visit the booksite: http://www.bytelevel.com/beyondborders/ 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).
	web accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance. Jim Thatcher et al, 2006. Amazon.com /  find in libraries or visit his website: http://jimthatcher.com/ 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.
	Rosenfeld and Morville. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd ed. 2002. Details / Amazon.com /  find in libraries  find first edition in libraries 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.
	King. Website Optimization. 2008. Details / Amazon.com /  find in libraries 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.
	National Cancer Institute. Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines. 2000-. http://usability.gov/guidelines/. As the name implies, these guidelines are based on the best available research.