Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems

Spring2002 - Professor Ben Shneiderman
Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

 Project

Homework

VBprojects

Participants

Grades

Links

Links of Interest

These are some of the sites that you might find both interesting and useful, especially in the context of this course. Remember, this too is a joint effort. So send me URLs to any interesting sites that you might have come upon in the past few days and I will do my darndest best to put it up over here.

• The Book
• HCI Papers Archive
• Smart Money's Map of the Market
• Human Computer Interaction Lab, UMCP
• Web Pages That Suck!!
• Home Page of Advanced Interfaces
• The Web Architect archive
• The home page for Killer Sites
• Usable Web
• Use it
• Yale Style Guide
• Dzine
• The page of David Siegel
• Web Review
• Web Techniques
• Web Business
• HCI Bibliography
• Source of designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces
• Jakob Nielsen's Website

Web links for major resources on universal usability

General:


• Universal Usability home site
• ACM SIGCHI Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
  
• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Universal Usability 
  
• European Conferences on User Interfaces for All
  
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  
• World Wide Web Consortium's Checklist for Web Content Accessibility
  University:
  
  
• North Caroline State University's Center for Universal Design
  
• University of Maryland Universal Usability in Practice
  
• University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab
  
• University of Wisconsin Trace Center
  Corporate:
  
  
• IBM Accessibility Center: Web Guidelines
  
• IBM's general site on usability
  
• Microsoft Accessible Web Design Guidelines
  
• Sun Microsystems' Accessibility Program Design Guidelines
  
• WebABLE, Inc.
  U. S. Government:
  
  
• U.S. Government Digital Divide reports
  
• U.S. Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative
  
• U.S. Access Board for Federal procurement regulations
  
• Section 508 Accessibility Requirements for Web Sites

New Challenges for SIGCHI and ACM Members (based on Sept 11, 2001)

• New Challenges for SIGCHI and ACM Members (based on Sept 11, 2001)
• Strengthening Communities (www.hcibib.org/communities)
• Broadening Participation (www.hcibib.org/participation)
• Preventing Terrorism (www.hcibib.org/preventterror)
• Promoting Development (www.hcibib.org/development)

SHORE (Student HCI Online Research Experiments)

• SHORE2001

• SHORE2000

• SHORE1999

• SHORE1998

• SHORE1997

Visual Basic Online Tutorials

• Visual Basic Tutorial For Beginners

• VB Web - Complete Beginners Tutorial

• MS Visual Basic 6.0 Tutorial (only for 6.0 New Features)

• Here is a VB-database tutorial in 7 parts. It starts off with the basics and gets more involved as you go along. It was very helpful.
  http://www.vb-world.net/databases/dbtutorial/
  

• Populating a List or Combo Box with data from a database
  http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=182
  

• More Tutorials

Previous Exam Materials

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2000/cmsc434-0101/Exam1.doc

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2000/cmsc434-0101/Exam2.doc

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring1999/cmsc434/exam/exam1.html

  • http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring1999/cmsc434/expt_soln.html

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring1999/cmsc434/exam/exam2.html

• http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE98/solutions.html

• http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE98/CMSC434solutions2.htm