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Week 1 Reading - Friday Nov. 9, 2007 

E.L. Hutchins, J.D. Hollan, and D.A. Norman, "Direct manipulation Interfaces", in User centered system design, D. A. Norman and S. W. Draper Eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 87-124, 1985. http://hci.ucsd.edu/120/direct-manip.pdf

Additional Readings of Interest:

Johnson, J., Roberts, T. L., Verplank, W., Smith, D. C., Irby, C. H., Beard, M., and Mackey, K. 1989. The Xerox Star: A Retrospective. Computer 22, 9 (Sep. 1989), 11-26, 28-29. http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2003/cmsc434-0201/Handouts/XeroxStar.pdf

Shneiderman, B. and Maes, P. 1997. Direct manipulation vs. interface agents. interactions 4, 6 (Nov. 1997), 42-61. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/267505.267514

Possible Future Week Topics

• Human Motor Performance (S. MacKenzie)
• Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing (Weiser, Abowd, etc. etc.)
• Human Visual System Characteristics (C. Ware)
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HCI reading lists on the web

The UC Berkeley Reading list for the HCI Preliminary Exam:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hci-prelim-syllabus.html

• note that the reading list is supposed to augment the readings from the undergrad HCI course CS160. Those readings can be found here: http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs160-fa06/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

The Georgia Tech Reading list for the HCI Qualifying Exam (same concept as what Berkeley calls the "prelim"): http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Gregory.Abowd/hci-resources/area-bok/body-of-knowledge.html

• note that the lists are linked via the headings "research themes in HCI"

Other places that probably have an HCI prelim/quals exam (in the CS department anyway):

• CMU
• Irvine
• Maryland
• Washington
• Stanford