CS295J/Literature

Perception

• Colin Ware: Information Visualization: Perception for Design

Insight into some of the theory of perception as it pertains to building visual interfaces (David)

• Some unindentified paper(s)/book(s) about Gestalt theories of perception and cognition

These theories, from the 40's inform visual design and may provide an analogy for integration of theory and practice (David)

• Feeling Bumps and Holes without a Haptic Interface: the Perception of Pseudo-Haptic Textures Lecuyer-2004-FBH

Looks like it could have cool information on "hacking" human perception. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Research issues in perception and user interfaces Encarnacao-1994-RIP

"The authors focus at on three things: presentation of information to best match human cognitive and perceptual capabilities, interactive tools and systems to facilitate creation and navigation of visualizations, and software system features to improve visualization tools." First and third points sound relevant. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• The Uniqueness of Individual Perception Whitehouse-1999-ID

Differences and similarities between between the perceptions of individuals. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Cognition

• Colin Ware: Visual Thinking: For Design

Insight into some of the theory of cognition as it pertains to building visual interfaces (David)

• Wikipedia's Seven Plus or Minus Two page

A clear description of one part of human thinking; will probably provide pointers to other things to read (David)

• A cognitive model for the perception and understanding of graphs Lohse-1991-CMP

Abstract: "…we have only a partial understanding of how people perceive and process graphic information." Obvious potential relevance. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Cognitive load during problem solving: Effects on learning John Swiller

Older article but referenced in a lot of newer ones; looks at how conventional problem-solving is ineffective as a learning device. (lisajane)

HCI

• John M. Carroll: HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks: Toward a Multidisciplinary Science

A gargantuan book with chapters by many folks describing some of the models and theories from HCI that may relate back to cognition; may need to create individual (David)

• Project ernestine: validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world task performance

A study in which the GOMS method is used to correctly predict the performance of call center operators using a new workstation. Might be interesting because of the methodology used to decompose the task into basic cognitive and perceptual actions, and then measuring these actions to evaluate the new interface. (Eric)

• The Growth of Cognitive Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction Since GOMS

• The limits of expert performance using hierarchic marking menus

Marking menus naturally facillitate the transition from novice to expert performance for command invocation, and have been quite influential over the years to research into menu techniques. (Andrew Bragdon)

• Chunking and Phrasing and the Design of Human-Computer Dialogues

High-level theory of human-computer dialogues. (Andrew Bragdon)

• Polson, P. and Lewis, C. Theory-Based Design for Easily Learned Interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, 5, 2 (June 1990), 191-220.

This is a cognitive model of how users find and learn commands in an unfamiliar user interface. This could potentially be adapted to be a piece of a theory of visualization. (Andrew Bragdon)

• Manual and gaze input cascaded (MAGIC) pointing

This is a system which combines gaze input (coarse-grained) and mouse input (fine-grained) to quickly target items. This is important because it "kind of" gets around Fitt's law by using gaze input to "warp" the cursor to the general vicinity of what the user wants to work on. (Andrew Bragdon)

• If not now, when?: the effects of interruption at different moments within task execution

Presents task models of user attention. (Andrew Bragdon)

• "Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres.

Empirical study of how information workers spend their time. Puts forward a theory of how users organize small individual tasks into "working spheres." (Andrew Bragdon)

• The state of the art in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces Ivory-2000-SAA

This looks money: somewhat-recent example of automating the evaluation process, very much one of our specific goals. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• User Interface Evaluation in the Real World: A Comparison of Four Techniques Jeffries-1991-UIE

Survey of several evaluation methods, almost 20 yrs old. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Cognitive Walkthroughs: A Method for Theory-Based Evaluation of User Interfaces Polson-xxxx-CWM

One more method. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation Nielsen-1992-FUP

Another old one, not sure of relevance yet. "Major usability problems have a higher probability than minor problems of being found in a heuristic evaluation, but more minor problems are found in absolute numbers." E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• The Use of Eye Movements in Human-Computer Interaction Techniques: What You Look at is What you Get Jacob-1991-UEM

One of the first research papers to introduce eye tracking as a viable HCI technique. (Trevor)

• Real-Time Eye Tracking for Human Computer Interfaces Amarnag-2003-RTE

Technical details about the implementation of a recent real-time eye-tracking system. (Trevor)

• Semantic Web HCI: Discussing Research Implications Degler-2007-SWH

A workshop discussion from CHI 2007 discussing the idea of a "semantic internet" and its relevance to the HCI community. Discusses things like adaptive web interfaces, mashups, dynamic interactions, etc. (Trevor)

• Implicit Human Computer Interaction Through Context Schmidtt-2000-IHC

A highly cited paper discussing the notion of implicit HCI, including semantic grouping of interactions, and some perceptual rules. (Trevor)

• Cognitive Strategies for the Visual Search of Hierarchical Computer Displays Anthony J. Hornof

This article investigates the cognitive strategies that people use to search computer displays. Several different visual layouts are examined. (lisajane)

• Unseen and Unaware: Implications of Recent Research on Failures of Visual Awareness for Human-Computer Interface Design D. Alexander Varakin; Daniel T. Levin; Roger Fidler

This article reviews basic and applied research documenting failures of visual awareness and the related metacognitive failure and then discuss misplaced beliefs that could accentuate both in the context of the human-computer interface. (lisajane)

• Shneiderman, Plaisant: Designing the User Interface

My textbook for an HCI class, has many good lists of guidelines. Especially Ch.2 pp 59-102. (lisajane)

• Studying Context, A Comparison of Activity Theory, Situated Action Models, and Distributed Cognition Bonnie A. Nardi

Defines the task of the HCI specialist as the application of psychological and anthropological principles to specific design problems. It posits an inherent feud between the accurate study of relative contexts and the necessary, but more general, development of comparative models and results. Gives a coherent overview of activity theory, situated action models, and distributed cognition; finds that activity theory presents the best overall framework. There is little reason given for this ranking, however, and the description of activity theory is the most theoretical and least developed of the three.

Having spent quite a bit of time studying Soviet psychology (from which came activity theory) last semester, I question the validity of the paper’s claim, as its description of activity theory bears the artifacts of the oppressive regulations which the Soviet government imposed on psychologists. Although the theory may sound more practical, it seems fairly weak as a basis for empirical design analysis.

The paper’s strongest point is the criticisms which follow descriptions, in which theoretical shortcomings of each perspective are discussed. (Steven)

• Robert Mack, Jakob Nielsen: Usability Inspection Methods (Ch. 1 Executive Summary)

Provides an overview of main usability inspection methods, a fair introduction to the industrial applications, as well as certain costs and benefits, of the methods as well as suggestions for expansive research. (Steven)

• Jock Mackinlay, Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG),

5(2):110-141, 1986. (Jian)

The first paper talked about how to automatically generate *good* graphs.

• Jock Mackinlay, Pat Hanrahan, Chris Stolte, Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis IEEE TVCG 13(6): 1137-1144, Nov-Dec, 2007 (Jian)

Extend their previous paper to analytics tasks.

• Jarke J. van Wjik, The value of visualization, IEEE visualization 2005. (Jian)

discuss vis from a variety of angles as for art, science and technology and question and quantify the utility of visualization.

• Johnny Accot and Shumin Zhai, Beyond Fitts' law: models for trajectory-based HCI tasks, CHI 97. (Jian)

Extend Fitts' to trajectory based tasks.

• Saraiya, P., North, C., Lam, V., and Duca, K.A, An Insight-Based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics, TVCG 12(6): 1511-1522, 2006.(Jian)
• the first paper that quantifies what insight is by comparing several infoVis tools for bioinformatics.

• David H. Laidlaw, Michael Kirby, Cullen Jackson, J. Scott Davidson, Timothy Miller, Marco DaSilva, William Warren, and Michael Tarr.Comparing 2D vector field visualization methods: A user study. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(1):59-70, 2005. (Jian)

an application-specific comparison of visualization method. a cool paper.

• Rosenholtz, Li, Mansfield, and Jin, Feature Congestion: A Measure of Display Clutter, CHI 2005. (Jian)

quantify visual complexity from a statistics point of view.

Design

• Wikipedia articles on "A Pattern Language" and "Design Pattern"

see summary for Alexander below (David)

• UI Design principles (feedback, etc -- find ref)

• Alexander: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

The original design pattern source; what makes a human space work, ineffable best practices, ~250 rules is enough to do communities and house-sized artifacts; could be a good metaphor for making; could be a good metaphor for making human virtual space work? (David)

• Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits, and Atoms Ishii-1997-TBT

A fairly-specific UI proposal, but could potentially have some nice relevant discussion on how we perceive "foreground" items and "background" items and their relationship. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Slanty Design Beale-2007-SD

Design method, five major design steps. E J Kalafarski 16:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

Really awesome book on the evolution of interactions with technology. (Trevor)

• Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton

Another great book on the practices of interaction design. (Trevor)

• The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

An interesting work on the efficiency of minimalist design. Quick read for those interested. (Steven)

• Ben Shneiderman, The Eyes Have It: User Interfaces for Information Visualization, UM, tech-report, CS-TR-3665. (Jian)

the paper talks about visualization mantra.

Thinking, analysis, decision making

• Morgan D. Jones: The Thinker's Toolkit: Fourteen Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

Set of methods for solving problems that might be incorporated into tools for thinking (David)

• Keim, Shazeer, Littman: Proverb: The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist

An automatic crossword-puzzle solver; the software framework for building this program may be a metaphor for some thinking groupware with plug-in modules. (David)

• Thomas, Cook: Illuminating the Path

a research agenda for tools for intelligence analysts; not sure of relevance (David)

• Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein: Nudge - Improving Decisions About Wealth, Health, and Happiness

A great, easy read for someone who isn't familiar with the psychological perspective. Focuses mainly on public policy issues, but certain sections (on developing a better social security website, for example) relate specifically to digital design. (Steven)

Visualization

• Min Chen, David Ebert, Hans Hagen, Robert S. Laramee, Robert van Liere, Kwan-Liu Ma, William Ribarsky, Gerik Scheuermann, Deborah Silver, "Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 12-19, Jan./Feb. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCG.2009.6