On Human Computer Interaction for dissertation projects

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is a Computer Science/ Information Systems subject. Sometimes, students would choose this topic area for their final year dissertation projects mainly because it is feasible to conduct usability evaluation of websites in the public domain. I provide the following HCI references to you:

1. Dix, A., Finlay, J., Abowd, G.  and Beale, R. (1998) Human-Computer Interaction, Prentice Hall.
2. Hackos, J.T. and Redish, J.C. (1998) User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, Wiley
3. Mayhew, D.J. (1999) The Usability Engineering Lifecycle, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
4. Nielsen, J. (2000) Designing Web Usability, New Riders.
5. Nielsen, J. and Mack, R. (editors) (1994) Usability Inspection Method, Wiley.

The academic journal of Interacting with Computers, published by Elsevier, is useful journal reference on this subject. There are also articles on HCI published in information systems journals from time to time.

Please make sure that you do sufficient reading on these references before doing your final year projects on HCI.