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User Interface Update - 1997

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

UNIT 1: User Interface Design Issues

  • User interface design model (Bailey, 1996)
  • Cognitive engineering principles for enhancing human-computer performance (Gerhardt-Powals, 1996)
  • Task analysis, cognitive task analysis and cognitive work analysis (Vicente, 1995)
  • The value added by cognitive task analysis (Klein, 1995)
  • Software ergonomics comes of age: The ANSI/HFES-200 standard (Redd, et.al., 1996)
  • Cost-justifying usability engineering (Cope and Uliano, 1995)
  • The Windows95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (Sullivan, 1996)
  • History and characteristics of human factors research (Meister, 1996)

UNIT 2: Interaction Issues

  • Duration estimates and users's preferences in human-computer interaction (Meyer, et.al., 1996)
  • Helping users program their personal agents (Terveen and Murray, 1996)
  • Interpretation of computer metaphors (Gillan, et.al., 1995)
  • User customization of a word processor (Page, et.al., 1996)

UNIT 3: Presentation Issues

  • Do color recommendations have any practical value? (Familant and Detweiler, 1995)
  • Interaction of signal word and color on warning labels (Braun and Silver, 1995)
  • Warning signal words: Understandability by children and elders (Wogalter and Silver, 1995)
  • Using small screen space more efficiently (Kamba, et.al., 1996)
  • An experimental evaluation of transparent menus (Harrison and Vicente, 1996)
  • Emotions matter: User empathy in the product development process (Dandavate, et.al., 1996)
  • Effects of personality and task strength on performance (Richter and Salvendy, 1995)
  • When the interface is a face (Sproull, et.al., 1996)
  • Listen while you work? Relations between personal stereo use and work (Oldham, et.al., 1995)
  • Remote conversations: Mediating talk with technology (Sellen, 1995)

UNIT 4: Users

  • Age-related differences in query construction and error recovery (Mead, et.al., 1996)
  • Mouse acceleration and older computer users (Walker, et.al., 1996)
  • Designing human memory-based computer products (Schacter, 1996)

UNIT 5: Global User Interface Issues

  • Design locally: Validate globally (Elkins and Quinn, 1995)

UNIT 6: Documentation

  • Interacting with hypertext: A meta-analysis of studies (Chen and Rada, 1996)
  • Simplified English for aircraft workcards (Chervak, et.al., 1996)

UNIT 7: Learnability

  • The importance of features and learning factors for “ease of use” (Thomas, 1996)
  • The next generation in human computer interaction (Soloway and Pryor, 1996)
  • An investigation of human-computer interaction task learning (Mitta and Packebush, 1995)

UNIT 8: Prototyping and Iterative Design

  • Iterative design of an Internet home page (Nielsen, 1996)
  • Usability problem identification using both low and high-fidelity prototypes (Virzi, et.al., 1996)

UNIT 9: Usability Testing

  • Benefitting design late in the development cycle (Walkenstein and Eisenberg, 1996)
  • Making a difference: The impact of inspections (Sawyer, et.al., 1996)
  • Perceived usability is a function of usefulness (Schwartz, et.al., 1996)
  • Expert review: How many experts are enough? (Dumas, et.al., 1995)
  • Remote evaluation: The network as an extension of the usability laboratory (Hartson, et.al., 1996)
  • Concurrent and retrospective verbal protocols in usability testing (Page and Rahimi, 1995)
  • A comparison of four evaluation methods for evaluating usability (Henderson, et.al., 1995)

UNIT 10: Usability and the Internet

  • Emerging trends in the WWW user population (Pitkow and Kehoe, 1996)
  • What is wrong with the World-Wide Web? (Lightner, et.al., 1996)
  • Using the Web instead of a window system (Rice, et.al., 1996)
  • Traditional vs. Web style guides: How do they differ? (Ratner, et.al., 1996)
  • User interface design on the Internet (Nielsen, 1996)


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