Human - Computer Interaction (HCI)
 

HCI-Sites

This page is maintained by a Special Interest Group of ACM (Association Computing Machinery), and contains over 500 links to many categories of HCI sites.  The organization is based on categories from the HCI Bibliography, a free-access online database on Human-Computer Interaction.

HCI applied to library web interfaces

Gary Perlman is a consulting research scientist at OCLC where he works on web-based user interfaces to bibliographic and full-text databases.  He works primarily with OCLC's web-based FirstSearch® (Try the Demo!), for which he has helped add front-end search features, internationalization, and backend efficiency.  He is also a steady contributor to the HCI field and a frequent conference speaker.

How to Help Someone Use a Computer

Here is an excellent checklist that we all need to read over and over again.  It was adapted by Phil Agre at UCLA from The Network Observer.