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Selected ebooks

• About face 3: the essentials of interaction design
• The essential guide to user interface design:
  I introduction to GUI design principles and techniques
• Handbook of human factors and ergonomics
• Handbook of usability testing:
  How to plan, design and conduct effective tests
• The human-computer interaction handbook:
  Fundamentals, evolving technologies, and emerging applications
• Measuring the user experience:
  Collecting, analyzing, and presenting usability metrics
• Paper prototyping
  The fast and easy way to design and refine user interfaces
• Understanding your users
  A practical guide to user requirements methods, tools, and techniques

Selected journals

• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
• Applied Ergonomics
• Behaviour and Information Technology
• CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Computers in Human Behavior
• Human-Computer Interaction
• IEEE Pervasive Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Haptics
• Interacting with Computers
• Interactions
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• Journal of Usability Studies
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Databases - journal articles and conference papers

• ACM Digital Library
  Scholarly articles and conference papers on all aspects of computer science.
  Includes papers on usability, user testing, human computer interaction, web-design and development.
  
• IEEEXplore
  Scholarly articles and conference papers on all aspects of electronics engineering and computer science.
  Includes human-computer interaction, usability and web development papers.
  
• Scopus
  Major scholarly journals and conference papers in all subject areas, including computer science.
  
• ScienceDirect
  Scholarly journals on all subjects published by Elsevier and associated publishers.
  
• Wiley Online Library
  Scholarly journals on all subjects published by Wiley.
  
• Informaworld
  Scholary journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge and others.
  Includes journals Human Computer Interaction and International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
  
• Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCO)
  Includes hardware and software product news and reviews plus articles.
  

Statistics and Standards

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
  Australian statistics; includes data from the Census of Population and Housing
  Interesting data includes Household use of information technology
  
• Australian Standards Online
  Full text access to all Australian standards. A limit of four users at a time applies; please logout when finished.
  For more information on standards see the subject guide Standards
  

Selected websites

• Boxesandarrows
  Hosts a series of interesting articles focusing on information architecture.
• Dey Alexander Consulting
  Has links to web resources on a range of usability topics.
• Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)
  Research centre based at Carnegie Mellon University, includes a list of members' publications
• InfoDesign: Understanding by Design
  Includes articles on usability, accessibility, information architecture, design patterns and more.
• Usability.gov
  US website designed to assist government agencies develop usable web sites.
  Includes an overview of usability process and some good examples of documentation.
• UsabilityNet
  Has a good overview covering basic techniques and ideas.
• Useit.com
  Website of the Danish writer Jakob Nielsen; considered the "king of usability".
  Links include Usability 101 and Top ten mistakes in web design
  Nielsen has a regular column: Alertbox: current issues in web usability
  
• User Interface Engineering
  Includes articles on usability.