May 2000
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Nielsen Norman Group: Strategic Human-Centered Design
http://www.nngroup.com http://www.useit.com http://www.jnd.org |
Consulting company of Jakob Nielsen and Donald Norman
Jakob Nielsen's home site Don Norman Home site |
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Cultural Dilemma of Usability Engineering http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~YZ2M-KRS/article/970426hci1.html | Comment on cultural differences impacting Nielsen's taxonomy of usabilty, usefullness, utility. |
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ACM SIGCHI
http://www.acm.org/sigchi http://www.acm.org/sigchi/hci-sites | ACM's Human Computer Interaction professional interest group. Good starting place with journal and rich set of links |
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British HCI Group
http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk | |
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US DoD CSERIAC Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center http://iac.dtic.mil/cseriac | Good source of ergonomics and vehicle/crew station simulation. |
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Ergonomics Society home page http://www.ergonomics.org.uk | |
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EUSC - European Usability Support Centres http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/husat/eusc http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/husat/eusc/contents_resources.html http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/husat/eusc/r_usability_standards.html | |
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Gary Perlman http://www.acm.org/~perlman http://www.acm.org/~perlman/uidesign.html | General Usability researcher, good set of reference links and good tutorial "Task-Centered User Interface Design (Lewis & Rieman)" |
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Geogia Tech GVU: Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu | |
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HFES: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society http://hfes.org HFES CSTG Computer Science Tech Group http://cstg.watson.ibm.com/indexbody.html | |
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International Journal of Human Computer Studies http://www.academicpress.com/ijhcs http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~shamus/specialissue.html | IJHCS special issue in production: "User Centered Design and Implementation of Virtual Environments" |
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Napier HCI Group http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/hci/projects.html | |
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NSF Course 98: Human Computer Interface Design http://www-engr.sjsu.edu/~knapp/hci.html | |
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Oregon Graduate Institute Center for Human-Computer Communication http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CHCC | |
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Paderborn University C-LAB Usability Homepage http://www.c-lab.de/usability | |
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TAP Training Workshop on Usability and User Requirements http://www.nectar.org/reposit/update/stories/1997111701/contents.htm | |
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U. Vienna CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering http://www.cure-vienna.org | |
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Usability First http://www.usabilityfirst.com | |
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Usability Professionals' Association http://www.upassoc.org/index.html | |
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Usable Web http://usableweb.com | |
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Vienna User Interface Group http://www.ani.univie.ac.at/ani/research/MCK.html | |
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Virginia Tech Center Human-Computer Interaction http://vtopus.cs.vt.edu/~chci Virginia Tech Usability Methods & Tools http://miso.cs.vt.edu/%7Eusab |
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ACM UIST 94 includes paper: "A survey of design issues in spatial input" http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/proceedings/uist/192426 |
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Dec 1998 Workshop Design and Usability for Collaborative Virtual Environments http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/research/technologies/evaluation/workshop/workshop.html |
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CVE98 Luncheon: Design and Usability for Collaborative Virtual Environments http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/research/technologies/evaluation/workshop/face-to-face CVE98 Usability for VE Lunch Notes http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/research/technologies/evaluation/workshop/summary.html |
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HICS '98 - Choi, etc http://www.computer.org/proceedings/hics/8341/8341toc.htm I. Choi and R. Bargar: Human-Machine Performance Configuration for Multidimensional and Multi-Modal Interaction in Virtual Environments |
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Feb21-23 1999 US NSF HCI Program Grantees Workshop '99 http://nsf-workshop.engr.ucf.edu |
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May 19-21 1999 TWLT 15 - Interactions in Virtual Worlds http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt15.html |
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VRST99 Systematic Design for VR Tutorial (Canceled) http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/people/Jolanda.Tromp/TUTVR99-jola.htm |
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UCDIVE: Sept99 York Workshop on User Centered Design and Implementation of Virtual Environments http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~shamus/ve-call.html |
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April 13-14, 2000: Workshop on Guiding Users through Interactive Experiences http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/ag-domik/workshop |
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29, 30 June 2000 University of Surrey: Workshop on Computational Semiotics for New Media http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/newMedia/call.htm |
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23-28 July 2000 SIGGRAPH: 3D User Interface Design: Fundamental Techniques,Theory, and Practice http://www.siggraph.org/s2000/conference/courses/crs36.html |
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July 30-August 4, 2000 IES & HFES combined conferences http://iea2000.hfes.org |
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August 30-31st, 2000 IGC 2000 International Workshop on Interactive Graphical Communication http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~ph/IGC2000 |
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November 16-17, 2000 ACM Conf on Universal Usability http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/cuu |
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Anthony Steed http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Steed | |
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Chris Johnson http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/iee.html | Several VR papers incl 1998 "Why `Traditional' HCI Techniques Fail to Support DesktopVR" and 1999 "Taking Fun Seriously: Using Cognitive Models to Reason about Interaction with Computer Games" |
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Clive Fencott http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/vsmm99 |
paper "Creativity and Content in Virtual Environments"
poster "Towards a Design Methodology for VE" at Sept99 York workshop. |
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Doug A. Bowman http://vtopus.cs.vt.edu/%7Ebowman | Researching interaction techniques. Thesis: "Interaction Techniques for Common Tasks in Immersive Virtual Environments: Design, Evaluation, and Application" |
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Joe Gabbard/Debbie Hix http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/%7Ejgabbard/ve/framework http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/%7Ejgabbard/ve/methods | Framework for Usability in Virtual Environments - large taxonomy and framework for application of usability to VE. |
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Jolanda Tromp http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/people/Jolanda.Tromp | |
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Jounghyun Gerard Kim http://www.postech.ac.kr/%7Egkim | Software engineering of VR plus usability. |
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Kay M Stanney http://ie.engr.ucf.edu/vr_research/home | Automated tool for usability engineering/design, Exposure time & cybersickness, Theoretical models of wayfinding, Sense of presence, Presence article on Human Factors in VE |
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Kulwinder Kaur http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/~dj524/kully.html | Thesis and other writings are an excellent collection of information of usability in VE. Thesis lays out design methodology for VE and provides prototype web-based tool for guidance. |
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Peter Cochrane http://www.labs.bt.com/people/cochrane | |
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Rob Jacob http://conbrio.eecs.tufts.edu/~jacob | |
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Ronald R. Mourant http://www.coe.neu.edu/~mourant | |
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Roy Ruddle, School of Psychology http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/ruddle | |
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Rudy Darken http://www.interact.nps.navy.mil/darken/publications.html | |
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Michael Heim http://www.mheim.com http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/log7.html |
The Philosophy of Virtual Reality and the 3-D Internet Chat Log from CyberForum@ArtCenter |
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COVEN European ACTS Project AC040 http://coven.lancs.ac.uk | Main site has some deliverables and links to publications and particpant pages with more links |
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I3: European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces http://www.i3net.org http://www.i3net.org/i3projects http://klee.cootech.disco.unimib.it/~campiello http://arti.vub.ac.be/~comris http://www.conexus.org http://www.nada.kth.se/erena | See the project web sites for info on VE usability in Campiello, COMRIS, co-Nexus and eRENA. |
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CNN.com - Technology - Army wants to harness power of the Matrix - May 2, 2000 http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/02/army.matrix.idg/index.html | Realizing the StarTrek (tm) Holodeck?? Perhaps they mean image based rendering with agent driven avatars - not force field generators. |
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Chris Johnson
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/um99/games.htm http://www.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/ics/fun_and_games.html http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/safecomp_vr/safety_vr.html http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/virtual_eval/paper.html http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/papers/iee.html | HCI researcher with papers on Cognitive Modeling and Game Design, evaluations of Desktop VR for Learning and Safety-Critical Applications, Why traditional HCI methods fail with DesktopVR |
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Gamasutra
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000301/carson_01.htm http://www.gamasutra.com/features/designers_notebook/19991229.htm | Game developer site with good articles on "Environmental Storytelling" and "Interactive Storytelling". |
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Microsoft Usability: Home Page http://www.microsoft.com/usability Microsoft: Adaptive Systems and Interaction - Home http://www.research.microsoft.com/adapt Microsoft Research: Mary Czerwinski http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/marycz/home.htm Member Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group |
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MUSE Technologies - Leading the new age of perceptual computing http://www.musetech.com/index.html |
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