HCC Resources

One excellent resource for research articles for this course is the ACM's digital library. Student membership for a year costs $42.

ACM Digital Library
http://www.acm.org/dl

Fitt's Law
http://www.tele-actor.net/fitts/fitts_background.html
http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html

Seniors Usability Checklist
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/checklist.pdf

usability resources

User Testing Techniques: A Reader-Friendliness Checklist
Guidelines for informal, but very effective, checklist-based user testing.

Usability.gov
This site provides a basic overview of and general information about usability.

Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)
From usability guru Jakob Nielsen, this article outlines the three main guidelines for writing for the Web.

How Users Read on the Web
Jakob Nielsen’s 1997 study of user behavior.