The Xerox Star system (handout),

Recommended:
As We May Think (Vannevar Bush)
Sketchpad (Ivan Sutherland thesis)
The NLS demo (look at the beginning of the demo)

Chap 1-3 of Philosophy Of Science: A very short introduction by Samir Okasha

"Setting the stage for discovery" (R. S. Root-Bernstein, in "Science and its ways of knowing")

Recommended:
"The So-called scientific method" (Henry H. Bauer, in "Science and its ways of knowing")

Proposal

Gathering data

Recommended:
HICH Chap 56: User-based Evaluations (Joseph S. Dumas)

Earth is spherical (p < 0.05): alternative methods of statistical inference (Vicente et al)

DPE: Chap 3

Finding what has been done

DPE: Chap 6

Example from the literature:
EdgeWrite: A Stylus-Based Text Entry Method Designed for High Accuracy and Stability of Motion, Wobbrock et al. UIST'03.

HCIH Chap 49: Contextual Design (Karen Holtzblatt)

Recommended:
HICH Chap 52: Prototyping Tools and Techniques (Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Wendy Mackay)

DPE: Chap 4, 5

Example from the literature:
The Stanford prison experiment

DPE: chap 7, 8

DPE: Chap 9, 11

Example from the literature:
Physically Large Displays Improved Performance on Spatial Tasks Tan, D.S., Gergle, D., Scupelli, P., Pausch, R. To appear in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (Draft).

DPE: Chap 10

Recommended:
"Observing the user experience" by Mike Kuniavsky. (on reserve at the CS library)

Ethnography

Example from the literature:
Chap 1 of Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins

Section A and B of Chap 20 & 21 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen

Recommended:
Section C of Chap 20 & 21 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen

Section A and B of Chap 12 & 13 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen

Recommended:
Section C of Chap 12 & 13 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen

HW 2

HCIH Chap 54: Participatory Design: The Third Space in HCI (Michael J. Muller)

Example from the literature:
Participatory design of an orientation aid for amnesiacs (Mike Wu et al.)

Recommended:
Section C of Chap 14 & 15 of Explaining Psychological Statistics by Cohen

Cognitive Architecture

HCIH Chap 5: Cognitive Architecture (Michael D. Byrne)

Example from the literature:
Details of command-language keystrokes (Allen et al. ToCHI 1(2))

HCIH Chap 7: Input Technologies and Techniques (Ken Hinckley)

Example from the literature:
A morphological analysis of the design space of input devices (Card et al. ToCHI 9(2))

Recommended:
Asymmetric Division of Labor in Human Skilled Bimanual Action: The Kinematic Chain as a Model (Yves Guiard, Journal of Motor Behavior 19(4))

Recommended:
WYSIWIS revised: early experiences with multiuser interfaces (M Stefik et al.)

Recommended:
The Age Explorer suit

Draft for review.

Universal Usability (Ben Shneiderman)