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 Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition) $101.00 As a Human-Computer Interaction University Associate Professor I was delighted with the new edition of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition). It was entirely renewed and fully updated. I have shared this textbook with my HCI undergraduate and graduate HCI students this semester and they liked it a lot and found it touches well and thoroughly current HCI issues! Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant present and discuss timely most key HCI theories, concepts, ideas and applications. I strongly recommend this book for academic and professional HCI courses.  HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community $43.00 This is a wonderful book that is also a very quick read. At the same time, it's also highly rewarding to read. Erickson & McDonald did a great job of obtaining short essays from a collection of HCI researchers (including those who have helped to define the field, those who are shaping the field, and those who are just beginning). In these essays, each author reflects on one work that is 10 years or older that deeply influenced her/his own research. Even though I've read about many of the referenced projects, though these essays, I developed a completely new found understanding of their significance. As I think back to those original projects, I am able to better appreciate them and the research progress that has been made over the years (and the work that remains). I would love to see a second volume of this book. There's just so many more researchers out there to whom the question of "what influenced your work" could be asked! |
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