UI-related Links


Oranization here sucks. Improvement is on my list....

Established Graphics Standards

The Graphics File Format Page
The comp.fonts Home Page
The QuickDraw GX Fan Club
OpenDoc Overview

Research

New and different

Magic Lenses UI: using see-through tools in front of a basic UI to enhance things
Bricks Gaspable UI: making UIs more tangeable than today's all-virtual worlds of mice and icons
Pad Interface: a system where zooming in, to an arbitrary depth, is key
Eye-control User Interface Research

Less Exciting, but still worthwhile?

PARAgente User Agent Research
Effective Visual Communication for GUIs: decent stuff on typography, symbols, color
Adaptive Interface class at Georgia Tech: lots of PS doc links about adaptive interfaces
Georgia Tech UI Animation Research
Improving Music Software UIs
Merlin Project Interface
Art and the User Interface: suggestion that UIs should be designed more by artists
Some Economics of User Interfaces: Why -- economically -- ease of use is so behind ease of learning
Visual Design for the User Interface, Part 1: covers GUI history, as well as good/bad behavior (ie having or not having modes)
Microsoft Research User Interfaces Group: some stuff about animation and life-like characters
Digital UI Research
Consistency vs. Multiplicity in Interface Design
Computer Graphics & Graphical User Interfaces: a collection of UI papers, organized by subject

Interesting(?) Books/Articles

Automatic GUI Generation

Misc

Check out the comp.human-factors newsgroup.

Pages with other Links

Human-Computer Interaction
Suggested Readings on HCI, UI, and HF
Human Computer Interaction Bibliography: many postscript papers!
Scripting GUIs: not terribly interesting, but some neat bibliography entries
Up to the Interfaces Subproject
Up to the Tunes Home Page
Page maintainer: Chris (chrisha@simba.lakeside.sea.wa.us)
Last Update: December 20, 1995