Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Resources in this category:

Argus Center for Information Architecture
http://www.argus-acia.com/

"The Argus Center for Information Architecture provides leadership in defining and advancing the evolving discipline of information architecture. The Argus Center serves as a focal point for learning about the theory and practice of information architecture. Towards this goal, we: manage a selective collection of links to the most remarkable content, events, and people in our field; produce original articles, white papers, conferences, and seminars that draw from the experience and expertise of the Argus team; conduct research, independently and through partnerships, focused on improving our collective understanding of information architecture."

Dive Into Accessibility
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

An e-book about making web sites more accessible to those with disabilities.

HCI Bibliography
http://www.hcibib.org/

This site contains articles, case studies, definitions and many other resources devoted to human-computer interaction.

Interaction Design
http://www.interaction-design.org/

"This website features the beginnings of a free, open-content, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields."

Online Accessibility
http://www.umich.edu/~webacces/About.html

Online Accessibility from the University of Michigan provides information to help designers build more accessible web sites, with a tutorial and resources available.

Research-based Web Guidelines
http://www.usability.gov/guidelines/

This site provides over 50 of the top Web design and usability guidelines based on research studies and supporting information from the field. Each guideline provides: A brief statement of the overarching principle that is the foundation of the guideline, Comments that further explain the research/supporting information, Source(s) of the research/supporting information. A score indicating the "Strength of the Evidence" that supports the guideline, and One or more graphic examples of the guideline in practice.

Technology and Young Children
http://www.techandyoungchildren.org/index.html

A terrific resource for parents and educators for exploring the positive and negative impact of technology in children's lives and for learning the "do's" and "don'ts" of using technology with children, offering everything from Best Educational Practices to Internet help with tutorials, good search engines, and web design tips.

Text Encoding Initiative
http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml

"The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries more generally." Visit this web site to learn about TEI, a markup language commonly used for digitizing texts and other resources. The web site includes information on the history of the project as well as how to use the markup language.

Usable Web
http://usableweb.com/

Usable Web is a collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. Value adds: descriptions, multiple organizational schemes (by date, topic, destination, author, popularity), search engine queries to even more resources.

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site
http://www.useit.com/

This popular site focused on making computers more usable, is written by Jakob Nielsen, one of the most famous and opinionated individuals in the "Usability" movement. This site is filled with suggestions on how to make websites, and interfaces in general, easier for us humans to use.

Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), in coordination with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/

This site provides provides documents on guidelines from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCA WG). There are also minutes from previous meetings of the Group.