Suggested Reading

The following books and articles are recommended reading for the class. You may find them useful when writing your final paper. You are not required to purchase these materials.

Landauer, T. (1995) The trouble with computers: Usefulness, Usability, & Productivity. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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Rosson, M. and J. Carroll (2001) Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human Computer Interaction. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.Powell's | Amazon

Shneiderman, B. (1998) Designing the user interface. New York: Addison Wesley. Amazon

For more information on the design process as seen by software engineering and management:

Boehm, B. (1988) A spiral model of software development and enhancement, IEEE Computer 21,2, 61-72.

Collected readings on human-computer interaction and experience design:

Helander, M. Landauer, T. and Prabhu, P. (Eds.) (1997) Handbook of HCI. New York: Elsevier.

Theory on the basic psychology of users:

Stillings et al (1995) Cognitive Science: An Introduction. Cambridge MA:MIT Press (see especially, Chapter 2: Cognitive Psychology: The Architecture of the Mind.) Amazon | Powell's

Eberts. R. (1994) User Interface Design. Englewood Cliffs NJ: PrenticeHall (see chapters 7, 8, and 10.) Amazon | Powell's

Process of User Centered Design:

Mayhew, D. (1999) The Usability Engineering Lifecycle. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Amazon | Powell's

User adoption and acceptance of new ideas:

Rogers, E. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations New York: The Free Press