91.527 - Human Computer Interaction - Fall 2009
Dr. Haim Levkowitz
Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA

Readings

Required:

  1. Quamobrem -- why is it that? (my blog)
  2. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition
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    Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition (ID2E)
  3. Leonardo's Laptop Leonardo's Laptop (LL)
    Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
    Ben Shneiderman
    MIT Press, September 2003
    ISBN-13: 978-0262692991
    Using the inspiration of Leonardo da Vinci to build a new, humanistic computing that focuses on users' needs and goals.

Recommended reference texts:

Here is a partial list of recommended readings, which I will amend, and/or update later.

Humane Interface, The: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
Jef Raskin

ISBN-10: 0201379376
ISBN-13:  9780201379372

Publisher:  Addison-Wesley Professional
Copyright:  2000
Format:  Paper; 256 pp
Published:  03/29/2000
Status: Instock

 Press OnPress On: Principles of Interaction Programming
Harold Thimbleby
Cloth / November 2007
How to understand and program interactive devices so that they are reliable and easy to use; includes wide-ranging programming insights, tools, and code.
ISBN-13: 978-0262201704


Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4/E
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Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland

ISBN: 0-321-19786-0
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 672 pp

Human-Computer Interaction, third edition


Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd, Russell Beale

ISBN: 0-13-046109-1
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Cloth; 834 pp

Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts, Technologies
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David Benyon
Phil Turner
Susan Turner

ISBN: 0-321-11629-1
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 832 pp

Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium
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John M. Carroll (ed.), Virginia Tech

ISBN: 0-201-70447-1
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 752 pp

more books ...

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