Human-Computer Interaction - Fall 07
This page lists links cited in lectures and other useful resources.

Bad Human Factors Designs
Human factors bloopers of every kind are listed in this website.

Human-Computer Interaction Resource Network
Articles, references, tutorials and events related to the HCI field.

AskTOG
HCI related articles by Bruce Tognazzini.

Alertbox
HCI related articles by Jakob Nielsen.

Computer Rage
Computer rage site at the University of Maryland's Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes. It includes computer rage videos starring Prof. Kent Norman.

American Airlines flight 965
Detailed accident report.

Mizuho Securities trade blunder
Article from BBC.

Stress and Wellbeing in 2006
Report from Developing Patient Partnership, a UK charity, including information on how technologies are a major source of stress.

Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
Vannevar Bush presents ideas that would influence the design of the Internet and the Web in this 1945 Atlantic Monthly article.

Doug Engelbart's 1968 oNLine System demo
Doug Engelbart demonstrates use of a mouse, hyperlinks, teleconferencing and other breakthrough technologies.

Graphical User Interface Gallery
An interesting collection of screenshots and other information on a variety of graphical user interfaces (mostly operating systems).

Demo of Fisheye Menus
From Dr. Ben Bederson at the University of Maryland.

Flamenco Search Interface
Browse collections across multiple dimensions simultaneously.

QUIS: Questionnaire for User Interface Satisfaction
Article from the CHI 88 Conference. To open the PDF file you have to access the site from a University of Iowa computer (it checks your IP address).

Lotus Usability Lab
Has some pictures showing what a usability lab looks like.

Writely
A collaborative writing tool, now owned by Google, that you may find useful when putting together the written portions of your project.

FolderShare
A tool, now owned by Microsoft, to easily share files between computers. You may find it useful to share project related files.