Summer 2012
— Information and Computer Sciences — UC Irvine — David G. Kay — Informatics 131
Supplementary References on HCI Topics
These links and books explain or illustrate some of the topics we've covered or mentioned in class (typically in more detail than we had time for). They're supplementary, not assigned, unless we say otherwise.
- New interface technologies
- Multitouch interface: We see multitouch interfaces now on iPhones and similar devices; this video shows Jeff Han of Microsoft and a large multitouch display
- Surface computing (where the tabletop is the interface): two videos, one from Microsoft and one showing the physical manipulation of objects to generate audio.
- Multiresolution browsing of images (Microsoft SeaDragon and Photosynth projects)
- BumpTop, an alternative desktop interface where the objects have physical properties (so they behave more realistically than conventional desktop icons). A few items shown here, like the "cover flow" view and pile views) are now available in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard). Also notice the pie menus.
- Three notable HCI experts:
- Human vision: See this XKCD comic.
- Information visualization
- Other videos
- David Pogue of the New York Times on the historical scope of desktop interface design, user frustration, and simplicity. The video includes some joke songs and mild Microsoft-bashing.
- Jim Chipchase on cellphone use, especially in the third world. This is an example of anthropological field research in the service of HCI: What do people carry with them?
- Alan Kay (no relation) gives a historical overview of HCI and his Dynabook concept from 1968 (which is like an iPad today): Doing with Images Makes Symbols.
- Other web materials
- Where to go after Informatics 131
- Informatics 132, Project in HCI Requirements and Evaluation
- Informatics 133, User Interaction Software
- Informatics 134, Project in User Interaction Software
- Informatics 143, Information Visualization
- Informatics 153, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work