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User Interface Update - 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Unit 1 - Displays

  • Evaluating the layout of graphical user interface screens (Parush, Nadir and Shtub)
  • The effects of monitor size on user performance and preference (Simmons and Manahan)
  • Effects of display resolution on visual performance (Ziefle)
  • Electronic text readability issues for the visually impaired (Bangor)
  • The century's top interfaces (Kreuze)
  • Can audio enhance visual perception and performance? (Davis, Scott, Pair, Hodges and Oliverio)
  • Time-compression of audio and video (Omoigui, He, Gupta, Grudin and Sanocki)
  • Principles of educational multimedia user interface design (Najjar)
  • Sound demonstration

Unit 2 - Input Devices

  • Alphabetic vs. QWERTY keyboard layouts for touch screens (Capobianco, Lee and Cohen)
  • Testing pointing device performance (Douglas, Kirkpatrick and MacKenzie)
  • Input rates for small-screen input (Lewis)
  • Development of a typing key layout for single-finger input (Lewis, Kennedy and LaLomia)
  • The design and evaluation of a high-performance soft keyboard (MacKenzie and Zhang)
  • The Best of Comdex - Products that will improve usability

Unit 3 - Speech Recognition

  • Patterns of entry and correction in speech recognition systems (Karat, Halverson and Karat)
  • Empirical evaluation of multimodal error correction (Suhm, Myers and Waibel)
  • Ten myths of multimodal interaction (Oviatt)
  • Is speech recognition robust for older populations? (Kalasky, Czaja, Sharit and Nair)
  • Speech recognition demonstration

Unit 4 - Interaction Issues

  • Testing the boundaries of metaphors and memory load (Vaughan)
  • How people use location knowledge of menu items (Hornof and Kieras)
  • Efficient access to a large number of menu items (Kurtenback, Fitzmaurice, Owen and Baudel)
  • Eye tracking the visual search of pull-down menus (Byrne, Anderson, Douglas and Matessa)
  • Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces (Horvitz)
  • Whisper: A wristwatch style wearable handset (Fukumoto and Tonomura)

Unit 5 - Website Design

  • Intranet development and design that works (Baca and Cassidy)
  • Applying usability methods to a large intranet site (Grose, Jean-Pierre, Miller and Goff)
  • Authoring animated web pages using ‘contact points' (Faraday and Sutcliffe)
  • Developing user interface guidelines for e-commerce (Fath and Henneman)
  • A web solution case study (Berman)
  • A taskonomy of WWW use (Byrne, John, Wehrle and Crow)
  • An empirical evaluation of user interfaces for topic management of web sites (Amento, et.al.)

Unit 6 - Summary of the Best Research from the Past Five Years (or so)

  • General design issues
  • Web design issues
  • Input and output devices
  • Displays and multimedia
  • Interaction and multimodal
  • User guidance (help)
  • User issues
  • Documentation and training
  • Usability testing

Unit 7 - Users

  • Age, luminance and print legibility (Charness and Dijkstra)
  • Defining the relationships between web ability, age and experience (Kurniawan, Allaire and Ellis)
  • Testing at preferred and non-preferred times (Intons-Peterson)
  • Seven, plus or minus two, is too much to bear (LeCompte)

Unit 8 - Documentation and Training

  • Searching hardcopy vs. electronic documents (Blinn and Biers)
  • Hypertext vs. Boolean access to biomedical information (Wildemuch and Downs)
  • A personalized document reading environment (Graham)

Unit 9 - Usability Testing

  • Combining preference and performance data in human-computer interaction tasks (Grounds and Ensing)
  • The effectiveness of current usability evaluation methods (Andre, Williges and Hartson)
    Brain imaging studies of human-computer interaction (Sanderson, Pipingas, Danieli and Silberstein)
  • Difficulties in predicting the usage of a coffeemaker (Rooden, Green and Kanis)
  • Learning to predict human error (Stanton and Stevenage)
  • Automatic support for usability evaluation (Lecerof and Paterno)

 

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