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User Interface Design

Readings

The lecture will roughly follow the text book by Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers and Helen Sharp: Interaction design. Additionally, you find useful information in papers I will mention in the lectures. The papers are freely available online through the University proxy.

Another (but optional) reference starting point is the book by Ben Shneiderman: Designing the User Interface.


Date Paper
26/02/ Gould, John, et al. “The 1984 Olympic Message System: a test of behavioral principles of system design.” CACM 30, no. 9 (1987).
05/03/ Blanch, Renaud, Yves Guiard, and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. “Semantic pointing: improving target acquisition with control-display ratio adaptation.” CHI, 2004.
12/03/ Edwards, Keith, Scott Hudson, Joshua Marinacci, Roy Rodenstein, Thomas Rodriguez, and Ian Smith. “Systematic output modification in a 2D user interface toolkit.” UIST, 1997.
19/03/ Myers, Brad. “A new model for handling input.” ACM TOIS 8, no. 3 (July 1990).
26/03/ Rettig, Marc. “Prototyping for Tiny Fingers.” CACM 37, no. 4 (April 1994).
02/04/ Nielsen, Jakob. “Ten Usability Heuristics“, Web page
Tognazzini, Bruce. “First Principles of Interaction Design“, Web page
07/05/ Gomoll, Kathleen, and Anne Nicol. “Guidelines for user observation.” User Observation: Guidelines for Apple Developers (January 1990).

Nielsen, Jakob. “Heuristic Evaluation“, Web page. Read the first 4 pages:

  • How to conduct a heuristic evaluation
  • A list of ten recommended heuristics for usable interface design
  • A more detailed discussion of the characteristics of the usability problems found by heuristic evaluation
  • How to rate the severity of the usability problems.
14/05/ Cooper, Alan. “The Perils of Prototyping“. 1994.
M.V. Zelkowitz and D. Wallace, “Experimental models for validating computer technology“, IEEE Computer 31(5), (May, 1998).