ICS 105/ Informatics 132                                                                                             Julia Gelfand

Human-Computer Interaction Project Course                                                                Science Library 228

Spring 2006                                                                                                                 jgelfand@uci.edu

                                                                                                                                    (949) 824-4971

 

The literature of Human-Computer Interaction is prolific and distributed among many disciplines.  The increasing interdisciplinary context is what this handout will support as well as identify some core literature and finding aids and lead you to resources you may find helpful in course assignments of writing commentary and doing basic research.

 

FINDING BOOKS - searching by keyword will retrieve the greatest number of titles but not always the most relevant and the output will be ordered by the most recent input to the database by publication date.  The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and Subheadings that reflect refinements, are recommended for increased relevancy and may include:

            Artificial intelligence

            Cognitive ergonomics

            Engineering psychology

            Ergonomics

            Human computer interaction - bibliographies

-         case studies

-         Congresses

dictionaries

-         encyclopedias

-         handbooks

-         periodicals

-         psychological aspects

-         research

Human Factors

 

.  More narrow terms may include:

            Ambient intelligence

            Natural language processing (Computer Science)

            User interfaces (Computer Systems)

 

Using:

1.      ANTPAC  the online catalog of UCI - lists all holdings in all formats at the source level - meaning by author or editor or compiler of a book, title of the book.  One can search by keyword and cover the author, title and subject heading fields and retrieve books in most recently published order going back.  Searches can be limited to promote relevancy - such as books only, journals, other formats media or Internet; by language; etc.  There is also an InterLibrary Loan request feature.

2.      MELVYL - the online catalog of all UC campuses - ANTPAC is a subset of MELVYL and one can search by specific campus and format.  UC eLinks link to specific holdings and to electronic fulltext content.  One can use the MELVYL-REQUEST feature to request materials be sent from another UC campus on InterLibrary Loan.

3.      WORLDCAT - the world's largest bibliographic database of library members around the world that have a certain title.  This collection of 34 million items is used when we have to borrow for a user on interlibrary loan and the title is not in MELVYL.  One can retrieve and verify the full bibliographic citation here.

4.      eBooks - there are several series that may be of interest in the http://crcnetbase.com database - the recommended one is EngnetBase where you will find different books that can be searched by concept and you will retrieve the fulltext chapters containing that content from a variety of titles.  Each book title is also found in ANTPAC.

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SELECTIVE REFERENCE WORKS

 

Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, 2005 - on order and due soon

 

Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce, 2006 - on order and due soon

 

Visual Ergonomics Handbook, 2005

SL Bar WW 103 V53 2005

 

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, 2 volumes, 2004

SL REF QA 76.9 H85 B56 2004

 

Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications, 2003

SL Bar 76.9 H8568 2003

 

Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation and Applications, 2002

SL Bar QA 76.9 C65 H349 2002

 

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS - several databases and online sources should be consulted for the scholarly contributions.  Most of the major Conference Proceedings, Congresses and Journals are indexed in the following sources:

  1. INSPEC (1969+) and its Archive (1898-1968)
  2. Web of Science (Science Citation Index 1945+ - later in April 2006, will extend back to 1900 in the Century of Science)
    1. a related database that is of interest and tracks citation patterns by journal title is the Journal Citation Reports - restrict search to Science and then choose by subject area or search by specific journal title in abbreviated form
  3. Compendex (Engineering Index 1969+)
  4. PsycINFO
  5. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (not all the online content is listed in Antpac yet, thus this link is better - just enter the volume # containing the paper you want in the search box)
  6. SPIE Digital Library
  7. Ergonomics Abstracts
  8. ACM Digital Library
  9. IEEE Xplore
  10. Digital Dissertations
  11. Google Scholar - retrieves books and journals with links to UCI holdings if you come through the campus network

 

Business Information Databases

    1. Business Source Premier
    2. Factiva
    3. Gartner - very major tool tracking IT trends and focusing on HCI
    4. Forrester - new product to be available very soon in April 2006 (check ANTPAC for exact URL)

 

Major Conferences -

            International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

            Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI by ACM)

            Symposium on Human Interface (Japan)

            International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics

            International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction

            International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP)

            Many others with conference papers published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

           

Major Journals

            ACM Interactions

            ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

ACM SIGCHI Bulletin - Special Interest Group on Computer & Human

            Interaction

            IEEE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics

            IEEE Transactions on Man-Machine Systems

            Human Technology an Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments

            Interacting with Computers

            Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

            Personal Technologies

            Presence

                       

Technical Reports - from both academic departments and industrial research labs - best searched on the web

 

Subject Guides - available for Computer Science, Informatics and Electrical/Computer Engineering

 

For additional information, please contact Liaison Librarian or use Ask a Librarian for eMail or CHAT reference or to schedule a research consultation.