Week 3 Readings
Reviews are due by noon Tuesday, April 10. (Please read the Kennedy paper before class Monday April 9, although you don't need to have the review done by then.)
- "Design and
Evaluation" (introduction to section of Human-Computer
Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, distributed with the Gould paper).
No review needed.
·
"Using Video in the BNR Usability Lab", Sue
Kennedy.
Submit
Review & Response to Kennedy
·
"Methodology matters", by Joseph McGrath
Submit
Review & Response to McGrath
·
Heuristic
Evaluation by Jakob Nielsen (available online -- read the items linked
under "Jakob Nielsen's Online Writings on Heuristic Evaluation")
Submit
Review & Response to Nielsen
Optional Papers (no review necessary for these)
·
Guerrilla
HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier
by J. Nielsen (available online)
· "The Diversity of Usability Practices", special section of May 1999 Communications of the ACM. You may still have this issue of CACM kicking around a nearby office. Otherwise dowload the papers from the above links (restricted distribution). The complete set of articles in the section are:
o The Diversity of Usability Practices - Introduction by Kim Halskov Madsen
o Replacing Usability Testing with User Dialog by Jacob Buur and Kirsten Bagger
o Increasing ease of use by Karel Vredenburg
o A contribution to the design process, by Klaus B. Bærentsen and Henning Slavensky (for some reason the text of this article isn't in the ACM digital library)
o Strengthening the focus on users' working practices by Julia Gardner
o A flexible approach to third-party usability by William R. Dolan and Joseph S. Dumas
o Organizing usability work to fit the full product range by Michael Muller and Mary P. Czerwinski
o
Cooperative
usability practices by Thea Borgholm and Kim Halskov Madsen
· Thinking Aloud: Reconciling Theory and Practice by M. Ted Boren and Judy Ramey (available online)