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Below is additional material associated with the topics covered in chapter 6.





Paradigms

An article by Chia Shen entitled ‘a new paradigm for HCI’ can be found at: http://www.cs.umass.edu/csinfo/newsletter/images/alummatters_fall04.pdf

A historical overview of GUIs and beyond, called:
“The Graphical User Interface. Time for a Paradigm Shift?” can be found at: http://www.sensomatic.com/chz/gui/history.html

Web design

There are many sites that offer guidelines online. Examples include IBM (http://www-03.ibm.com/easy/page/558) and US government (http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html0 ).

One site that will test your website for accessibility, quality and privacy for free is: http://webxact.watchfire.com/

A humorous site called webpagesthatsuck.com provides a blog-based commentary of really badly designed web pages and explains why.