HCI Links - Modeling Users and Building Systems

Version of 8/22/04 - by RPF -

Many of the links here are gathered from a variety of sources and need to be updated or simply deleted. That is a work in progress, starting in the Fall of 2004. The links below do not open new windows, so a tabbed browser such as Firefox can be useful in exploring the collection. The titles alone give little indication of "what lies beyond", so annotating the titles is also useful project (or collection of projects).

• A description of cognitive modeling at usabilityfirst.com
• Theories in computer human interaction from the University of Maryland
• Interface analysis report of Disney.com using Foley and van Dam's conceptual levels
• Neisser's Perceptual Cycle
• Norman's Seven Stages of Action (and Gulfs of Execution and Evaluation) course slides by Richard Griffiths
• Expert Knowledge Elicitation to Improve Mental and Formal Models paper
• Formal methods in HCI by Alan Dix
• Cognitive Modeling and Cognitive Engineering described by The Mitre Corporation
• Models of the Design of Human Interaction with Complex Dynamic Systems paper
• Ecological Interface Design described by Kim Vicente

GOMS

• GOMSModel.org
• Overview of GOMS from the University of Baltimore
• A summary of the work being conducted with GOMS at the University of Michigan with links to papers and downloadable software
• A guide to GOMS model usability evaluation using GOMSL and GLEAN3 by David Kieras
• The GOMS Model and its Application description from Virginia Tech
• PGOMS (Predecessor of QGOMS)
• Using GOMS for User Interface Design and Evaluation : Which Technique?
• A GOMS Tutorial
• Bonnie E. John's GOMS Page
• Modeling Pilot Performance Using Automated Aircraft Systems presentation at George Mason University

Soar

• Soar: A Production-rule-based Cognitive Architecture Tool for Implementing GOMS Models
• Soar Frequently Asked Questions List

ACT-R

• About ACT-R
• Control in Act-R and Soar

Novice and Expert Users

• Expert v's Novice Users described by Jacob Nielsen
• "Problems with Save" paper
• "An empirical comparison of the usability for novice and expert searchers of a textural and graphic interface to an art-resource database" paper

Task Analysis

• A description of task analysis at usabilityfirst.com
• Design Discovery and Task Analysis lecture slides from Prof. Lawrence Rowe
• Description of Task Analysis at Usability.net
• "Beyond Task Analysis: Exploiting Task Models in Application Implementation" short paper from the CHI 1996 proceedings

Data Entry and Display

• Interface Widgets Layout
• Experiences - A Pattern Language for User Interface Design
• Turning Research into Practice: Characteristics of Display-Based Interaction

Getting Users Attention

• Apple's guidelines for limiting the use of color
• Techniques & Tools for Using Color in Computer Interface Design ACM Crossroads student article
• Guidelines from Windmill Software Ltd
• University of British Columbia lecture slides
• Description of Faraday and Sutcliffe's 1997 studies on using animation to control attention
• Engagement in Multimedia Training paper from the HICSS 1999 conference

Automation and Human Control

• Is It An Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
• Multiagent Model of Dynamic Design: Visualization as an Emergent Behavior of Active Design Agents
• Multiagent Model of Dynamic Design: Visualization as an Emergent Behavior of Active Design Agents
• Autonomous Interface Agents paper by Henry Lieberman
• The ALIVE System: Full body interaction with autonomous agents, by Pattie Maes, et al.,
• ContextExplorers: mobile agents for run-time context discovery, validation and verification
• "Improving the usability of an e-commerce web site through personalization" paper