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Recommended Visual Basic Books

• Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 in 21 Days, Second Edition
  
  If you have any other book recommendations, please share them with me and I'll add a link! -- adamp@cs.umd.edu
  

Medical Device Related Links

Latest Links:

• MIT AgeLab: Ideas + Technology for Quality Living
• Georgia Tech Aware Home
• Medical Automation Research Center - University of Virginia Healthy System
• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA)
• Future of Aging Services 2004
  
  Consumer Health Information: (Courtesy of Dina Demner!)
  
  
• MedLinePlus
• HealthFinder
• WebMD
• National Institutes of Health
• Merck Manual - Home Edition
• Sample Question from WebMD
• Example of consumer software
• PDA Medical Applications (1)
• PDA Medical Applications (2)
  
  Research Reports:
  
  
• Intel's Proactive Health (1)
• Intel's Proactive Health (2)
• Intel: Helping the Elderly Age Gracefully at Home
• Intel Computer-Supported Coordinated Care: Using Technology to Help Care for Elders
• Alzheimer's Association
• Univ of Rochester Future Health
• Jeana Frost of MIT has a project on picture logs to help diabetics monitor their wellness
• UbiHealth 2003: The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications (16 online papers)
  
  U.S. Government Sources:
  
  
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Center for Devices & Radiological Health (1)
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Center for Devices & Radiological Health (2)
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Center for Devices & Radiological Health (3)
• U.S. NIH-NLM MEDLINEplus: Drug and Medical Device Safety
  
  Commercial Products:
  
  
• Personal Health Record & HealthKey
• HealthRecordsOnline Inc
• U.S. Market for Emerging At-Home Diagnostics: Table of Contents (9/2003)
• Home Diagnostics, Inc. (HDI)
• Accu-Measure FatTrack Gold Digital Body Fat Caliperwith MyoTape Body Tape Measure
• Welcome to Pro-Med Products

Macromedia Flash Links

• Flash MX 30 Day FREE Trial
• http://www.flashidea.com/ed285/download.htm
• http://www.flashidea.com/ed285/resource_flash.htm

General HCI Links

• 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

 
 

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