Books
 Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach by Roger S Pressman and Roger Pressman

Software Engineering (3rd Edition) by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Joanne M Atlee

Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Using UML, Patterns and Java, Second Edition by Bernd Bruegge and Allen H. Dutoit

Usable Web: Usability Engineering

Suggested Readings on HCI, User Interface and Human Factors

Journals
Software Engineering Journal

IEEE Software Engineering Journal

International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering

HCI journals
 HCI Bibliography Journal Coverage
 International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
 Human-Computer Interaction
Interacting with Computers

UMUAI Special Edition on User Modeling and Adaptation in Affective Computing

Conferences
4-6 October 2006 - The 2th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium - Barcelona, Spain

29 November - 1 December 2006 - International Conference on Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture - Berlin, Germany

5-7 December 2006 - 19th International Conference Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications (ICSSEA 2006) - Paris, France

26 February - 2 March 2007 - Sixth Annual International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS 2007) - Banff, Alberta, Canada

26-29 March 2007 - 19th Annual Premier Conference for Software and Systems Process (SEPG 2007) - Austin, Texas

13-19 May 2007 - ICSE '07: International Conference on Software Engineering 2007 - TBD

9-12 July 2007 - International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-07) - Orlando, Florida

22-26 October 2007 - OOPSLA '07: ACM SIGPLAN Object Oriented Programming Systems and Applications Conference 2007 - Montreal, Canada

Papers

Usability Testing - Netscape Navigator Vs. Microsoft Internet Explorer
Usability Testing – The DATech Standard

DATech test handbook for compliance testing of products with ISO 9241 parts 10 and 11

DATech test handbook for compliance testing of usability-engineering processes with ISO 13407

Tools & checklists

Usability tools

Scone

Tools of Web Metrics Testbed NIST

Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires

Usability Guidelines

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Testing Methods and Tools

TaskArchitect: task analysis tool

Evaluating Web Site Accessibility

Logging Software Freeware

Usability Logger (freeware version) from OvoStudios 

Data Logger - Developed in Excel by Todd Zazelenchuk. Customizable with a lot of automated calculations and charts.

Logging Software Commercial products

Usabilityware 4.0 from Usability Systems, Inc.

Observational Coding System Toolset from Triangle Research Collaborative, Inc. (TRC)

The Observer from Noldus Information Technology

ErgoLight Usability Validation Suite (EUVS) from ErgoLight

Usability Activity Log from Bit Debris Solutions

Usability Logger from Usable Tools

Usability Logger from OvoStudios 

Morae from Techsmith

Usability Labs

Usability-Engineering Laboratory at GMD

Usability Laboratory of Waikato in New Zealand

Projects examples

Example projects Uni Utha SE lab

Useful links & Browsers

ACM digital library

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL)

SCIENCE DIRECT

Usability.gov
 User Interfaces and Usability for Embedded Systems

Links to usability websites

Northern Light Search
AltaVista
ResearchIndex: The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library

Internships

ACM Internship Opportunities for Students

Alexander Nikov                                  COMP3250 Links

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Revised: 29 September 2006