W. Michelle Harris
Assistant Professor

Department of Information Technology
GCCIS
Rochester Institute of Technology
office 70-2573, phone 475-4487
wmh@it.rit.edu
resources

HCI1: Human Factors

Section 1: Tuesday & Thursday, 2 - 3:50 pm in room 70-2590
office hours: Mon/Wed 6-8pm in my office

class readings
11/30 Design for Democracy by AIGA
11/30 Slate: Wanted: A Legible Ballot by Jessie Scanlon
class examples
1/10 Improving Student's Memory (Paradise Valley CC)
1/10 SQ3R method of studying (Va Tech)
1/10 Exploratorium Memory exhibit
1/10 Memory Traces on video (Baylor College of Medicine)
12/13 Subliminal Perception (Merikle, U. Waterloo)
12/13 Various Kitchen Timers (Google images)
12/8 Symbols.com
12/8 Deutsch's Musical illusions
12/8 National Park Service design guidelines
12/8 M.C. Escher website
12/6 BF Skinner's Walden Two
12/6 Hear epics: The Iliad (Harper Collins) or English lit e.g. Beowulf (Norton)
12/6 Lego Honda movie
12/6 DCity Penny Memory Test
12/1 Dr. Naismith, inventor of basketball
12/1 BMW iDrive, & the NPR feature
12/1 Rube Goldberg gallery, and the CMU class R.G. lab
design links
Attorney's Guide to Perception & Human Factors
ubiComp.org
old site of Mark Weiser, ubiComp guru
NC State Center for Universal Design
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
Interaction Design HUB
Donald Norman's jnd.org Essays
Thoughts on Design by Nathan Shedroff
useit.com Jakob Nielsen's site
GUI Bloopers by Jeff Johnson
AskTog Home Page
Observing the User Experience, Kuniavsky (books24x7)
Cooper Newsletter
Adaptive Path, LLC publications
UCB UI Research Projects
UIWEB.COM - Web and interaction design
User Interface Engineering
www.welie.com -- patterns in Interaction Design
SparkNotes-Psychology
wmh - winter 2005/6