I590 – Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction

Indiana University School of Informatics – Spring 2006
Wednesday 5:45 – 8:25, IT 395, 3 Credit Hours

Instructor: Karl MacDorman

Office Address:
IT 487, 535 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Office Phone: 317 278-8169
Lab Phone: 812 961-3754

Reading Assignments

Human Factors

Proctor, R. W. & Van Zandt, T. (1994). Human factors: In simple and complex systems. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
    Part I. Foundations of Human Factors
       2. Research Methods in Human Factors (23 pp, due Jan. 18, PPT)
       3. Reliability and Human Error in Systems (21 pp, due Jan. 25, PPT)
       4. Human Information Processing (22 pp, Avery, due Feb. 22)
       9. Attention and the Assessment of Mental Workload (23 pp, Avery)
       10. Retention and Comprehension of Information (22 pp, Waew)
       11. Solving Problems and Making Decisions (20 pp, Chris)

John, B.E. and Kieras, D.E. (1996). The GOMS Family of User Interface Analysis Techniques: Comparison and Contrast ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 3,(4), pp. 320–351.

The Psychology of Design

Norman, D. A. (2001). Applying the behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences to products. (Dip, PPT, due Feb. 15)

Norman, D. A. (1999). Affordances, conventions, and design. Interactions, May, pp. 38-43. (Dip, due Feb. 15)

Norman, D. A., Ortony, A. & Russell, D. M. (2003). Affect and machine design: Lessons for the development of autonomous machines. IBM Systems Journal, 42(1), 38-44. (Dip, due Feb. 15)

Norman, D. A. (2003). Emotional design: People and things. (Dip, due Feb. 15)

Jordan, P. W. (2000). Designing pleasurable products. London: Taylor & Francis.
    2. The four pleasures (32 pp, Patrick, PPT, due March 22)
    3. Creating pleasurable products (40 pp, Bob, PPT, due March 29)
    4. Methods (36 pp, Tim)

Distributed Cognition

Rogers, Y. (2005). Distributed cognition and communication. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.). Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 731-733.

Kirsh, D. & Maglio, P. (1994). On distinguishing epistemic from pragmatic action. Cognitive Science, 18, 513-549. (Young-Joo, due Feb. 22)

Cowley, S.J. (2006). What baboons, babies, and Tetris players tell us about interaction: A biosocial view of norm-based social learning

Hutchins, E. & Klausen, T. (1996). Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit. In Y. Engestrom and D. Middleton (Eds.), Cognition and Communication at Work. Cambridge University Press.

Hutchins, E. (1995). How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speed. Cognitive Science, 19, 265-288. (Tim, PPT, due Feb. 8)

Alac, M. (2005). From trash to treasure: Learning about brain images through multimodality. Semiotica, 156(1/4), 177–202. (Bob, PPT, due March 1)

Dourish, P. (2004). What We Talk About When We Talk About Context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(1), 19-30. (Waew, PPT, due Feb. 15)

Dey, A.K. & Mankoff, J. (2005). Designing Mediation for Context-Aware Applications, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 12(1), March 2005, Pages 53–80.

The Psychoanalytics of Human-Computer Interaction

Felluga, D. (2003). Modules on psychoanalysis. Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. (Chris, due Feb. 1, PPT)

Turkle, S. (2002). Wither psychoanalysis in the computer culture? Freud Lecture, The Sigmund Freud Society, Vienna. (Patrick, due Feb. 8)

Turkle, S. & Papert, S. (2002). Epistemological pluralism and the revaluation of the concrete. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 11(1), 3-33. (Heather, due Feb. 1, PPT)

The Psychology of Human-Robot Interaction

MacDorman, K. F. (2006). The uncanny advantage of using androids in cognitive research. Interaction Studies, 7(4). (19 pp, due Jan. 18)

Turkle, S., Taggart, W., Kidd, C.D., and Daste, O. (2006). Relational artifacts with children and elders: The complexities of cybercompanionship (25pp)

The Ethics of Human-Computer Interaction

Friedman, B. & Kahn, P. H. (2003). Human values, ethics, and design. In J. A. Jacko and A. Sears (Eds.), The human-computer interaction handbook (pp. 1177-1201). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (25 pp, due Jan. 25, PPT)

Friedman, B. & Kahn, P. H. (1992). Human agency and responsible computing: Implications for computer system design. Journal of Systems and Software, 17(1), 7-14. (Mar. 8)

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Borning, A. (in press). Value Sensitive Design and information systems. In P. Zhang & D. Galletta (eds.), Human-computer interaction in management information systems: Foundations. (Mar. 1)