VU Human-Computer-Interaction

Reading List and Resources

Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, Harry Hochheiser, Research Methods In Human-Computer Interaction, John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2010. Book's Home Page
Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd, Russell Beale, Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall 2004. Book's Home Page
Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, Jenny Preece, Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2011. Book's Home Page
Matt Jones, Gary Marsden, Mobile Interaction Design, 1st edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006. Book's Home Page
Steve Krug, Don't make me think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd edition, New Riders 2014. Book's Home Page

Bernhard Preim, Raimund Dachselt Interaktive Systeme: Band 1 & 2 Springer, 2. Auflage, 2010. Begleitwebseite zur Buchreihe
Markus Dahm, Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion Addison-Wesley Verlag, 2006.

zu Kognition: Colin Ware, Visual Thinking for Design, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008. Book's Home Page
zu Psychologie: Henry Gleitman, Daniel Reisberg, James Gross, Psychology, 8th edition, W. W. Norton and Company, 2010. Book's Home Page
zu Kommunikation: Renate Motschnig, Ladislav Nykl, Konstruktive Kommunikation, Klett-Cotta, 2009. Book's Home Page
zu statistischen Tests: Geoff Cumming, Understanding The New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and Meta-Analysis, Multivariate Applications Series, Routledge, 2011. Book's Home Page

Axure (http://www.axure.com/edu) Hinweis: Für Studierende und Lehre gibt es kostenfreie Lizenzen auf der Axure-Webseite!
Balsamiq (http://balsamiq.com)
Mockflow (http://www.mockflow.com)
appery.io (http://appery.io)
Pencil (http://pencil.evolus.vn)
Mockingbird (https://gomockingbird.com)
WireframeSkatcher (http://wireframesketcher.com)
Web Site Wireframe Tool (http://wireframe.talltree.us/default.asp)
Hot Gloo – The Online Wireframe App (http://www.hotgloo.com/)
Cacoo (https://cacoo.com)
iPhone Mockup Web App (http://iphonemockup.lkmc.ch/)

Language: Objective-C or Swift (recommended, although you can use both languages in the same project)

Platforms: OS X, (Linux)

Programming experience: intermediate

Having an idea about Object-Oriented Programming is recommended (e.G. if you know Java, Ruby, C# or any OO language)
If you finished SWE or SWA you should be fine

Tutorial-Info:

Pros:

You can take advantage of all the Apple built-in usability-goodness: Scrolling, Animations, Gestures, Back Buttons
Develop high quality native apps (and ultimately become rich and successful)
Swift is very easy to learn and similar to Java/Javascript in many regards
Great debugging with XCode
Tons of documentation (and people with the same problems) on the web

Cons:

If you don’t own a Mac, you can still develop applications on a Linux platform, however Apple did not release Xcode for Linux (and there is no other IDE yet) and UIKit. There’s no Core Graphics, no Core Animation, no AVFoundation, nor many of the other familiar core Objective-C libraries. Basically, most of what you need to create beautiful iOS or Mac apps isn’t here yet for Linux users.
You need an Apple developer license. We have some student licenses for you but you will have to send us the UDID of your Apple device so that we can activate it. Further details will be announced soon.

Web resources:

Ausführliche Dokumentationen und Guidelines von Apple. Besonders die iOS Human Interface Guidelines sind sehr zu empfehlen. Sie gehen auf viele verschiedene Aspekte ein und helfen beim Designen von iOS Apps. (Ignoriert man die strengen Richtlinien bzgl. Design und Usability, werden die Programme im App Store häufig nicht zugelassen)
VIDEO „Prohttp://iphonemockup.lkmc.ch/totyping: Fake It Till You Make It“. Beschreibt den Prototyping-Prozess und liefert einen interessanten Einblick in die Arbeit von UI/Interaction Designer bei Apple. (Anmerkung: Sie benötigen einen Apple Developer Account und Safari um sich das Video anzusehen)
„The Swift Programming Language“ bietet einen Einstieg in die neue Programmiersprache und ist ein gutes Nachschlagewerk.
iTunes U „Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift“. Ein Swift-Kurs mit vielen ausführlichen Anleitungen, Videos und Übungen der Stanford University.
VIDEO-TUTORIAL Building Your First Swift App (Photo Filter)
Online Tutorial: Part I Part II „Storyboards Tutorial in Swift“ - Ein 2-teiliges Tutorial mit dem Fokus auf die Erstellung eines User Interfaces bzw. eines Storyboards mit mehreren Views in Xcode.

Language: Java

Platforms: all

Programming experience: intermediate

Having an idea about Object-Oriented Programming is recommended (e.G. if you know Java, Ruby, C# or any OO language)
If you finished SWE or SWA you should be fine

Tutorial-Info:

Pros:

Highly customizable user experience (e.G: you can make home screen-widgets to enhance the user experience)
Google has less restrictions as to what kinds of apps make it to their store
Tons of documentation
Better performance

Cons:

Too many types of devices and screen sizes that you have to worry about (it’s easier to handle in Cordova)
Instable (“hacky things” you find online could stop working after an upgrade)

Web resources:

Language: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React.js)

Platforms: all

Programming experience: beginner/intermediate - if you have experience with web programming you should be fine

Having an idea about Object-Oriented Programming is recommended (e.G. if you know Java, Ruby, C# or any OO language)
If you finished SWE or SWA you should be fine

Tutorial-Info: