Chapter 6: Interfaces

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


Paradigms and visions:

An article by Susanne Bodker on Third Wave challenges for HCI:
http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/pallottv/docs/NordiCHI-2006/Keynotes/01-Bdker-1.pdf

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

HCI2020 manifesto:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/hci2020/

Natural user interfaces:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/jan10/01-06cesnui.mspx

http://vimeo.com/channels/nui

Graphical user interfaces:

A historical overview of GUIs and beyond:“The Graphical User Interface. Time for a Paradigm Shift?”: 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.html). 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.