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References for Further Reading on Field Studies

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by Ashley McKee

For our recent Field Studies Virtual Seminar attendees and anyone interested in learning more about Field Research, here is Kate Gomoll’s list of resources on Field Studies. You can also expect a new UIE Research Report detailing the ins and outs of the entire Field Study process from Kate and her colleagues, Ellen Story Church and Eric Bond, in the next few weeks.

    Baecker, R. and Buxton, W. Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1987.

    Bauersfeld, P. Software by Design: Creating People Friendly Software. New York, NY: M&T Books, 1994.

    Carroll, J. (Ed.) Scenario-Based Design: Envisioning Work and Technology in System Development. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1995.

    CHI Conference Proceedings. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. (Proceedings published annually since 1983 by ACM’s SIGCHI.)

    Hackos, J. and Redish, J. User and Task Analysis for Interface Design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1998.

    Holtzblatt, K. and Beyer, H., (Eds.) Communications of the ACM. May 1995, Vol. 38, No. 5. (Theme of the issue is “Requirements Gathering: The Human Factor.”)

    Gardiner, M. and Christie, B. Applying Cognitive Psychology to User-Interface Design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1987.

    Gomoll, K. “Some Techniques for Observing Users” from The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Brenda Laurel, editor. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990.

    Greenbaum, J. and Kyng, M., (Eds.) Design at Work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1991.

    Laurel, Brenda, (Ed.) The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990.

    Muller, M. and Kuhn, S., (Eds.) Communications of the ACM. June 1993, Vol. 36, No. 4. (Theme of the issue is participatory design.)

    Norman, D. Design of Everyday Things (formerly Psychology of Everyday Things). New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988.

    Stone, D., Jarrett, C., Woodroffe, M., and Minocha, S. User Interface Design and Evaluation. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, The Open University, 2005.

    Schuler, D. and Namioka, A., (Eds.) Participatory Design: Principles and Practices. Hillsdale, NJ. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1993.

    Wixon, D. and Ramey, J. Field Methods Casebook for Software Design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1996.

Published here on March 20, 2007.