Papers for CSE 590H

See the bibliography of a superset of the readings we'll be covering in the class.

Note: you are expected to read and attempt to understand all of the papers we assign. We aren't going to give exams or quizzes in this class, but we'd like you to come to class prepared to discuss the papers we have read.

Copies of all papers are available in 4th floor filing cabinet in Sieg Hall; books are on reserve in the Engineering Library.

Required Reading

  1. (3/28) Norman, Donald. Design of Everyday Things. (Chapter 1 only)
  2. (3/28) Myers, Brad. Why are User Interfaces Hard to Design and Implement. Source?.
  3. (3/30) Ehn, Pelle. Ch 1 Work-oriented Design of Computer Artifacts.
  4. (4/4) Brad Myers, "State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools", Tech Report CMU-CS-92-114, Feb 92.
  5. (4/6) Blomberg. Ethnographic Field Methods and their Relation to Design. Participatory Design: Principles and Practices. L. Erlbaum Associates. 1993.
  6. (4/11) Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng. "Introduction: Situated Design" (Chapter 1), in Design at Work, Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng, eds.
  7. (4/18) Jenny Preece. Part II of Human Computer Interaction. (Concentrate on Chapters 4-6.)
  8. (4/25) George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Ch 1-6. Metaphors We Live By. The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
  9. (4/25) Erikson, Thomas D. "Working with Interface Metaphors." in The Art of Human-Computer Interaction, Brenda Laurel, ed.
  10. (4/25) Smith, Randall B. "Experiences with the Alternate Reality Kit: An Example of the Tension betwen Literalism and Magic." CHI 1987.
  11. (5/11) Jones, W.T. Ch 11 The Twentieth Century to Wittgenstein and Sartre
  12. (5/11) Wittgenstein, Ludwig. pp 2-13 Philosophical Investigations
  13. (5/11) Ehn, Pelle. Ch 4 Work-oriented Design of Computer Artifacts.
  14. (5/18) Kay, Alan. The Early History of Smalltalk History of Programming Languages II. 1993.
  15. (5/18) Johnson, Roberts, Verplank, Smith, Irby, Beard, Mackey. The Xerox Star: A Retrospective. Readings In Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000.
  16. (5/25) Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld. A Softbot-Based Interface to the Internet. CACM, Vol 37 No 7 (July 1994), pages 72-76.
  17. (5/30) S. Mukherjea, J. Foley, and S. Hudson. Visualizing Complex Hypermedia Networks through Multiple Hierarchical Views. CHI'95, pages 331-337.
  18. (5/30) John Lamping, Ramana Rao, and Peter Pirolli. A Focus+Context Technique Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing Large Hierarchies. CHI'95, pages 401-408.
  19. (5/30) U. Shardanand and P Maes. Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth." CHI'95, pages 210-217.
  20. (5/30) D. Maltz and K Ehrlich. Pointing the Way: Active Collaborative Filtering. CHI'95, pages 202-209.

Optional Reading

  1. (3/30) Ehn, Pelle. Ch 6 Work-oriented Design of Computer Artifacts.
  2. (4/4) Tyson Henry et al, "A Nose Gesture Interface Device: Extending Virtual Realities," UIST 91, p 65-68.
  3. (4/4) Brad Myers and Mary Beth Rosson, "Survey on User Interface Programming", CHI 92, p 195-202.
  4. (4/11) Pelle Ehn. "Scandanavian Design: On Participation and Skill", in Adler and Winograd, eds. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools.
  5. (4/18) Card, Moran and Newell. Chapter 2 from "The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction", 1983. (If you don't read the whole thing, read the first couple of pages at least.)