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While I was making this quick web site I thought I would include a list of some of the Internet resources that have been mentioned in class and in Interfacers' emails.  Please let me know about any additions I should make.

Brendan.

Usability

"Devhead" summary of usability: (http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2137671,00.html)

Information on usability from a seminar given at internet librarian 98:

Going Forward: Usability Testing the Web Site: Beth Phillips, Editorial Webmaster, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nicole Hennig, Systems Librarian, Bose Corporation. (http://www.digital.com/misc/internet/ILUse/index.htm) (http://www.hennigweb.com/presentations/il98/)

Learning

Distance Learning Resource Guide (including Bloom's taxonomy), Gagne's Nine Events for Instruction, and a position paper on Distance Education and the WWW:

Bloom (http://www.wested.org/tie/dlrn/blooms.html)

Gagne (http://ide.ed.psu.edu/idde/9events.htm)

DE & WWW (http://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/edu-ws94/contrib/peraya.fm.html)

Problem Solving

Lucid dreaming:

FAQ's on lucid dreaming: (http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html)

Creativity & Problem solving:

Bibliography from Wayne Reeves' LIBR 281 Creativity & Problem Solving course that Laura took last summer (http://witloof.sjsu.edu/courses/281.reeves/28101.htm)

Other Resources

American Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Human-Computer Interaction (http://www.acm.org/sigchi/)

Cognitive Psychology (http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/cg.htm)

Keirsey Temperament Sorter II (http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi)

Microsoft interface design guidelines (http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/uiguide/)

A nice summary of current interface usability research and includes suggestions for future research: Visualizations for data exploration and analysis: a critical review of usability research; Visualizing Information.  Mirel, Barbara.  Technical Communication.  Society for Technical Communication, November 1998.  Mirel.htm