Course Textbooks
This course compares different methdologies, yet textbook authors
tend to represent a single methodological school of thought. Therefore
more than one book is required.
The following textbooks represent two of the major approaches to
design in HCI. The texts are required and are available in the bookstore.
Mary Beth Rosson and John M. Carroll. Usability Engineering:
Scenario-Based Develoment of Human-Computer Interaction. San Francisco:
Morgan Kaufmann, 2002. ISBN: 1-55860-712-9 (hardcover).
Constantine, L. L., and Lockwood, L. A. D. Software for Use:
A Practical Guide to the Essential Models and Methods of Usage-Centered
Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999. (hardcover)
This third book was added to help us think more deeply about
interface design and question our assumptions.
Raskin, Jef (2000). The Humane Interface, Boston: Addison-Wesley.
ISBN 0-201-37937-6
Other Readings
The readings include more recent papers by Constantine & Lockwood
from their web site at www.foruse.com/,
and an overview/tour of Extreme
Programming at http://www.extremeprogramming.org/index2.html
Students are also required to read papers to broaden their
perspectives on design. Here's a list of the additional readings
we used this semester:
Constantine, L. (2000). What Do Users Want? Engineering Usability
into Software. (Revised
from Windows Tech Journal, December 1995.) http://www.foruse.com/articles/whatusers.htm
Constantine, L. (2003). Canonical Abstract Prototypes for Abstract
Visual and Interaction Design. Reprint [June 2003; rev. Aug 2003]
of keynote delivered at DSV-IS, Madeira, Portugal, 4 June 2003. http://www.foruse.com/articles/abstract.htm.
Constantine, L. & Lockwood, L. (2000). Structure and Style
in Use Cases for User Interface Design. Preprint [February
2000, rev. November 2000] published in M. van Harmelen (ed.),
Object Modeling and User Interface Design. (Addison-Wesley, 2001;
ISBN: 0201657899). http://www.foruse.com/articles/structurestyle2.htm.
Larry L. Constantine, Helmut Windl, James Noble, Lucy Lockwood
(2003). From Abstraction to Realization: Abstract Prototypes
Based on Canonical Components. Working paper [August 2000,
rev. May 2001, rev. July 2003] from The Convergence Colloquy
held July 2000 . http://foruse.com/articles/canonical.htm
Ducheneaut & Bellotti (2001). E-mail as Habitat: An Exploration
of Embedded Personal Information Management
September 2001 interactions, Volume 8 Issue 5.
Goodwin, C. (1995). Seeing in Depth. Social Studies of Science
(SAGE, London, Thousand Oaks CA and New Delhi), Vol 25 (995),
237-74.
Background Readings
If you feel you have inadequate background for this course or just
want to go into more depth, read an introductory HCI text such as
the following:
Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction, Preece
Rogers & Sharp. Wiley, 2002. ISBM: 0-471-49278-7
I also recommend that you visit my ICS 463 Introduction to Human-Computer
Interaction Design class web site:
http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/classes/ICS463/Spring2004/index.html
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