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1. Problems and issues in HCI.

In this section I have placed a summary of an article by Baecker and Buxton called A Historical and Intellectual Perspective (Preece & Keller, 1990) that lays the ground for the rest of the contents by taking a look at the origins of the discipline.

2. Different research directions.

This section features a summary of an article called Four Different Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction by Kammersgaard (Preece & Keller, 1990).

3. Principles for design of user interfaces and their relation to HCI.

This section features a brief look at a well known article about the ground breaking work at Xerox PARC in the late seventies called  Designing the Star User Interface by Smith et al. (1990). Then comes a short summary of an article by Shackel called Human Factors and Usability (1990), that presents a synthesis of different approaches to design for usability. As a progression from those ideas I then take a look the article From Human Factors to Human Actors (Bannon, 1991).

As a sort of extra feature I have also taken a look at a connection between HCI and artificial intelligence (AI), since that was a prerequisite for this course, by giving an account for an article called Theory-Based Design for Easily Learned Interfaces (Polson & Lewis, 1990).

4. Critisism and debate.

This part includes an extensive summary of Lucy Suchman's dissertation called Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication (1987), which is a critique of a help system for a photocopier based on the assumption that help systems can understand the user's needs by trying to infer the user's plan based on some parameters describing the state of the system. The critisism is also directed generally towards AI's view of how the human mind works, and the decompositional work analysis approach of task analysis. The book is the most famous example of ethnography in HCI.

5. Important articles, books, conferences, journals and other information resources.

Several attempts have been made to make the HCI resource inventory on WWW. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel yet again, I have collected a few links to some of these existing resources. Even this small selction is partly redundant since they make cross-references to eachother (but this could be said about any list of WWW links since everything is linked to everything in some way or another 8-).

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<h3><font size="4"><a name="1">1. Problems and issues in HCI.</a> </font></h3> <font size="4"> </font><p><font size="4">In this section I have placed a summary of an article by Baecker and Buxton called <i><a href="baecker.html">A Historical and Intellectual Perspective</a></i> (Preece &amp; Keller, 1990) that lays the ground for the rest of the contents by taking a look at the origins of the discipline. </font></p><h3><font size="4"><a name="2">2. Different research directions.</a> </font></h3> <font size="4"> </font><p><font size="4">This section features a summary of an article called <i><a href="kammersgaard.html">Four Different Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction</a></i> by Kammersgaard (Preece &amp; Keller, 1990). </font></p><h3><font size="4"><a name="3">3. Principles for design of user interfaces and their relation to HCI.</a> </font></h3> <font size="4"> </font><p><font size="4">This section features a brief look at a well known article about the ground breaking work at Xerox PARC in the late seventies called&nbsp; <i><a href="smith.html">Designing the Star User Interface</a></i> by Smith et al. (1990). Then comes a short summary of an article by Shackel called <i><a href="shackel.html">Human Factors and Usability</a></i> (1990), that presents a synthesis of different approaches to design for usability. As a progression from those ideas I then take a look the article <i><a href="bannon.html">From Human Factors to Human Actors</a></i> (Bannon, 1991). </font></p><p><font size="4">As a sort of extra feature I have also taken a look at&nbsp;a connection between HCI and artificial intelligence (AI), since that was a prerequisite for this course, by giving an account for an article called <i><a href="polson.html">Theory-Based Design for Easily Learned Interfaces</a></i> (Polson &amp; Lewis, 1990). </font></p><h3><font size="4"><a name="4">4. Critisism and debate.</a> </font></h3> <font size="4"> </font><p><font size="4">This part includes an extensive summary of <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/SFC/96/bios/suchman.html">Lucy Suchman</a>'s dissertation called <i><a href="suchman.html">Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication</a></i> (1987), which is a critique of a help system for a photocopier based on the assumption that help systems can understand the user's needs by trying to infer the user's plan based on some parameters describing the state of the system. The critisism is also directed generally towards AI's view of how the human mind works, and the decompositional work analysis approach of task analysis. The book is the most famous example of ethnography in HCI. </font></p><h3><font size="4"><a name="5">5. Important articles, books, conferences, journals and other information resources.</a> </font></h3> <font size="4"> </font><p><font size="4">Several attempts have been made to make <em>the</em> HCI resource inventory on WWW. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel yet again, I have collected a few links to some of these existing resources. Even this small selction is partly redundant since they make cross-references to eachother (but this could be said about any list of WWW links since everything is linked to everything in some way or another 8-). </font></p><ul> <font size="4"> <li><a href="http://www.hcibib.org/">The HCI Bibliography</a> <br> An On-line bibliographic database on HCI. </li><li><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigchi/hci-sites/">ACM SIGCHI: HCI-sites</a> <br> A collection of links to HCI-sites. </li><li><a href="http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/hci/">HCI Index</a> <br> A collection of HCI resources on the Internet. </li><li><a href="http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/">Human-Computer Interaction Resources on the Net</a> <br> A collection of information related to HCI. </li><li><a href="http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/0x811b0205_0x0005c3f1;sk=B70E1C3B">The HCI Bibliography Project</a> <br> Includes bibliographic information on books, reports, conferences, journals, information on publishers and more. </li></font></ul>