Links to Resources

Some useful HCI journals

ACM Transactions of CHI (external)

ACM Digital Library (external)

Behaviour and Information Technology

Computers in Human Behavior (external)

Human Computer Interaction (external)

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (external)

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (external)

Interactions (external)

Interacting with Computers (external) (Impact factor 2006: 0.833)

Some useful resources & Web design links

ACM SIGCHI

The HCI Bibliography

Nielsen's Useit.com

Usable web

CHI Web

Research-based Web design and usability guides

Some useful Teaching and Learning links:

OECD Directorate for Education: Quality teaching in Higher Education (and Phase 2).

Assessing Learning in Australian Universities: Ideas, strategies and resources for quality in student assessment (CSHE/AUTC).

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Learning and Teaching Performance Fund

Teaching Quality Informaton : This site contains key statistics and reports about the quality of teaching at all Higher Education Institutions in the UK, giving official detailed quantitative data on students' entry qualifications, progression, completion of awards and subsequent employment; together with various qualitative reports provided by the Institutions themselves.

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) promotes and funds high-quality, cost-effective teaching and research, meeting the diverse needs of students, the economy and society.This site has lots of reports such as: “Collecting and using student feedback: a guide to good practice”, John Brennan, Ruth Williams, on quality and standards of learning and teaching in HE.

Miscellaneous Resources

Web pages

Exploring font sizes: see how different fonts display in your browser and how they change as you increase or decrease your browser's text size display.

All about Macs OS X: an attempt to explain using Macintosh computers (OS X) for those who have a Windows background. (27/1/05)

Sample interactivity page: a sample "learning" page with an interactive Shockwave component to illustrate use of interactivity. (12/10/00)

Odd examples

QuickTime movie with Flash overlay (not work properly in QT5??).

Some QTVR examples. (30-4-99)

Odd presentations

OzCHI 2009 presentation (movie clips are not included in this PDF - they come from an episode of the Garden Gurus - "SmartGardenWatering". Episode 7, Autumn 2009.

Presentation at Eng Experience Workshop July 19, 2007

DIS Dept Mtg, 16 July 2007

Mettle LMS+ forum July 11 2007

CSSE Praze discussion June 1 2007

OzCHI 2006 conference presentation

SciMET Fest Aug 2006

Open Day presentation 2006

SSLC Meeting May 2005

SSLC Meeting April 2005

Discovery Day 2004 presentation (142 kB pdf)

SaTTaL Nov 2003

T & L Mtg 11-8-03

Stuff you probably shouldn't find

Melbourne State College photo circa 1988?: small version (72 dpi, 281 kB); large version (300 dpi, 1.4 MB). (29/11/02)

Tour of Building B on 13 Feb, 2002. (1/3/02)

DIS Retreat at Macedon, 2001. (4/2/01)