User-Centered Web Site Design, NSF DUE 0088184, is intended to help introduce Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) more widely into the CS curriculum. A text is one key part; publication is expected by the end of 2002. The links below tell you more.
Rosalee J. Wolfe, who set up the graduate and undergraduate HCI programs at DePaul University, is my coauthor.
Please ask for information about beta-testing the book in the summer or fall of 2002. The publisher, Prentice Hall, will provide copies for your students, free. Please also ask for sample chapters.
Five course outlines, prepared by Dr. Wolfe.
Preface, with ideas about teaching HCI.
Selection from our proposal to the NSF, giving the rationale for the project. Also mentions other project materials, including a workshop to be scheduled. The proposal was written two years ago. Some things have changed; in particular, the awareness of the need for HCI has become much more widespread since Spring 2000. The proposal had a bias towards Web design courses with an HCI flavor. Our thinking has changed almost 180 degrees since then. The book has an opening eight-chapter HCI core, not specific to the Web at all, followed by six chapters on Web issues. The book will serve as the text for an HCI course, with or without a Web component.
Please see notes on requesting a preprint.
Please send email for more information.