Last Friday was the last HCI class for 2009 at Penn. The last class is the time for class teams to demonstrate their HCI projects. There were three this year: ParkMe - an iPhone application to show available parking spots in an area, complete with such arcane details as traffic regulations; meMote - a Wii-mote based tv controller that had content based selection and accommodated the elderly and SendMe - a proprietary application that a student did n conjunction with his day job. All three were superb, but ParkMe won the great of the 8's contest. The class is EMTM 608 so hence the awards name.
I used a new book this year, Bill Moggridge's Designing Interactions, ISBN: 0-262-13474-8. It provided a perspective on design that nicely complemented the other texts in the course: Don Norman's Design of Everyday things, ISBN: 465067107, a classic that should be read repeatedly; John Maeda's The Laws of Simplicity, ISBN: 0262134721, a book that really like, great for a cross country plane trip and covered in an earlier post and User Interface Design and Evaluation, ISBN: 0120884364 by Stone, Jarrett, Woodroffe and Minocha, an excellent, practical textbook on doing HCI. These books, complimented by Ben Schneiderman's, et.al., classic and encyclopedic, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective HCI, ISBN: 0321537351 form a basis for an HCI library.
If you would like to explore my HCI lectures, they will be available for a few more weeks at my homepage. I would appreciate any additional recommendations of books to add to an HCI library, I will suggest a few more in the coming months, but always looking for pointers. Later!
