Systems Ph.D. HCI Qualifying Exam in Computer Science
Reading List, Spring 2008

In previous years we have assigned textbooks, but all of the availble ones are too diffuse - they introduce large numbers of people, terms, systems, and methods, without giving a clear sense of what is most important. It is impossible (and unnecessary) to memorize everything that is in them, but very hard for a non-expert to pick out the important from the extraneous. So this year we will base the exam on a collection of readings from the HCI courses.

Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing, Gregory Abowd, Elizabeth Mynatt, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(1), 2000, pp. 29 - 58.

Contextual Design, Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt, Contextual Design, pgs. 36-60

An Ethnographic Approach to Design, Jeanette Blomberg, Mark Burrell, and Greg Guest, in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J. Jacko, ed., 2003, pp. 964-986.

As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.

Information Visualization (Ch. 1), Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999, pp. 1 - 34.

User Technology: From Pointing to Pondering, Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, ACM Conference on the history of personal workstations, 1986, pp. 183 - 98.

Getting in Touch, Paul Dourish in Where the Action Is, pp. 25-54

User Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction, Gerhard Fischer, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 11, 2001, pp. 68 - 86.

Input Technologies and Techniques, Ken Hinckley, in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J. Jacko, ed., 2007, pp. 161-176.

Beyond Being There, Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta, CHI 1992: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 119 - 25.

What Do Prototypes Prototype?, Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill, in Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (2nd ed.), M. Helander, ed., 1997.

Direct Manipulation Interfaces, Edwin L. Hutchins, James D. Hollan, and Donald A. Norman, Human-Computer Interaction, 1(4), 1985, pp. 311 - 338.

On Distinguishing Pragmatic from Epistemic Action, David Kirsh and Paul Maglio, Cognitive Science, 1994, pp. 513 - 549.

Design of the Conceptual Model, An interview with David Liddle, Bringing Design to Software, Chapter 2

Past, Present, and Future of User Interface Software Tools, Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, Randy Pausch, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, March 2000, pp. 3 - 28.

Sitemaps, storyboards, and specifications: a sketch of Web site design practice, Mark Newman and James Landay, DIS 2000: ACM Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 263 - 274.

Generations of User Interfaces, Jakob Neilsen, Chapter 3 from Usability Engineering, 1993.

The Power of Representation, Donald Norman in Things that Make Us Smart, 1993, pp. 43 - 76.

Design as Practiced, Donald Norman, Bringing Design to Software, Chapter 12

Multimodal Interfaces, Sharon Oviatt, in The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, A. Sears, J. Jacko, ed., Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003, pp. 286-304.

Information Foraging, Peter Pirolli and Stuart K. Card, Psychological Review, 106(4), pp. 643 - 675.

Usability Testing and Field Studies, Sharp, Rogers, Preece, Interaction Design, Ch. 14

Paper Prototyping, Carolyn Snyder, Ch. 4

Getting the Right Design and the Design Right: Testing Many Is Better Than One, Maryam Tohidi, William Buxton, Ronald Baecker, Abigail Sellen CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1243 - 1252.

The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94 - 104.

The Alto and the Star, Terry Winograd, Bringing Design to Software, Profile 2

Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, - Terry Winograd, Bringing Design to Software, Profile 4

The Spreadsheet, Terry Winograd, Bringing Design to Software, Profile 11