HCI Textbooks Recommendations
, 2nd Edition
Created: 7/23/99, Last modified: 7/23/99
Dr. Ping Zhang compiled this 2nd edition of the HCI Textbooks Recommendations in 7/1999. The recommendations are from the HCI Education community. The 1st edition of HCI Textbooks Recommendations can be found at http://cindy.syr.edu/pzhang/t_hci_bk.cgi.
This report is organized as the following:
I. The original request
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:07:37 -0400 Dear colleagues, I am asking for recommendations on HCI textbooks for a graduate level Intro to HCI course. The students never took HCI courses before and the course will have an overview of the entire field. I have used Preece et al. 1994 book two years ago. The book worked quite well as a main textbook along with supplementary readings. I am wondering if there are newer textbooks available these days (ideally published after 1996 and covers Web HCI issues). I am aware of the ACM.ORG website with HCI readings by Gary Perlman. I would like to hear from you with experiences on what books work well or not well as textbooks. Other suggestions on teaching such a course are also highly appreciated. I did a similar request two years ago and a summary of the recommendations is at URL http://cindy.syr.edu/pzhang/t_hci_bk.cgi. I will do another summary if the response to this request is informative. Many thanks in advance! Date Ping |
II. Summary of the recommendations
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# of Recom. |
Author(s) |
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Publisher |
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Shneiderman, Ben |
Designing the user interface: Strategies for effective human-computer interaction, 3rd edition |
Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-69497-2 |
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2 |
Preece,J. et al. |
Human-computer interaction |
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., MA, 1994 |
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1 |
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CHI '99 Conference proceedings |
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1 |
Jordan, Patrick W. |
An Introduction to Usability |
Taylor & Francis 1999, ISBN: 0748407626 |
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1 |
Mayhew, Deborah |
Usability Engineering Lifecycle |
Academic Press/Morgan Kaufmann 1999, ISBN: 1558605614 |
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1 |
Landauer, Thomas K. |
The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity |
MIT Press 1995, ISBN: 0-262-12186-7, 0-262-62108-8 |
III. Original comments
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:45:46 -0400 Ping: Greetings. I have taught HCI on the graduate level for about 10 years now. Perhaps I can be of some help regarding your request. Generally, I use the Shneiderman text(now third edition, 1998) for a general overview book. I find that Shneiderman is comprehensive in presenting the breadth of the HCI field (as is Preece's book). He also provides depth by presenting findings from various HCI studies. He expends a bit more effort on theory, too. My gut feeling is that Preece's book works the best for the undergraduates, while Shneiderman's book can be used for either undergraduate or graduate. I always require a second text and I offer my own personal bibliography on HCI for recommended reading. (Of course, I direct my students to Gary Perlman's website as well.) The choice of the second text is tricky in that I like to choose something that is current and exposes the graduate student to both breadth and depth of HCI research. I have used extensively the Baecker et al., 1995 Readings in HCI text, but now that is getting a bit dated. This year, I will be using the CHI '99 Conference proceedings. I find that the non-HCI'ers in the class are amazed by the scope of HCI research and development being done today, particularly when they get deep into the conference proceedings. Usability is an extensive area we cover on the master's level. Sometimes I require an indepth book on usability that offers both concepts (definition of usability, attributes, etc.) and techniques for evaluation. I have used Nielsen's 1994 extensively, but now that we need to use a more current text, we will be using either Jordan's book on Introduction to Usability or Mayhew's 1999 book on Usability Engineering Lifecycle. So, that's it in a nutshell. It depends on the audience, too. Some of our graduate students are computer science majors, others are completing their master's or Ph.D. in Computing Technology in Education. You can visit my HCI website at http://www.scis.nova.edu/nova/hci/top.html I have many resources in there for graduate level HCI courses. Don't forget to visit Shneiderman's Book site at http://www.aw.com/cseng/titles/0-201-69497-2/website/welcome-roger.html. Roger Chapman from Ohio State is working hard to maintain this resource for us all. Good luck. Regards, Laurie Dringus |
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 09:25:20 +1000 Hi Ping, I am having the same problem of finding a suitable textbook. I agree that Preece et al (1994) is a good text and it would be nice to have a newer Preece et al which included material on the Web Issues. Ben Schneiderman has a new edition "Designing the user Interface', Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-69497-2. This has a chapter on 'Hypermedia and the World Wide Web'. But I prefer the section in Preece on evaluation. I also am looking for a new text for both an undergraduate subject in HCI as well as a post graduate subject. At this stage I am tempted to provide multiple readings and will be most interested to see the response to your e-mail jan |
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:31:54 +0000 I have found that Landauer's book, "The Trouble with Computers" from MIT Press is an excellent supplimentary book for graduate level course. Most of the students find it quite thought provoking. --tom hewett |
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:19:56 -0500 Ping, I highly recommend Ben Shneiderman's Designing the User Interface. I used that, along with Jenny Preece's book and some supplemental materials, for an HCI class. Lisa |
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