Topic 1 - HI2

The following are links that relate to the content of the first topic in HI2. The aim of this section of the course is that you are able to differentiate between individual and group based approaches to interaction. It does this in two ways:

1. The academic approach - compares and contrasts the academic views of interaction taken by HCI and CMC
2. The 'popular culture' approach - examines the every-day use of terms Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments

HCI and CMC

• Discourse and Distortion in Computer-Mediated Communication - http://www.itcs.com/elawley/discourse.html
  Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and its effects on the patterns of communication among its participants.

• Perspectives on CSCW: From HCI and CMC to CSCW - http://www.ul.ie/~idc/library/papersreports/LiamBannon/5/EWHCI92.html
  Traces the emergence of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in relation to human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-mediated communication (CMC)

• List of Liam Bannon's Articles - http://www.ul.ie/~idc/library/papersreports/LiamBannon/LBArticl.html
  a list other papers by Liam Bannon.

• HCI Bibliography - http://www.hcibib.org/
  Search over 19,600 records in the HCIBIB. It contains definitions of HCI, recommended reading, etc.

• Navigation in Computerized Systems - http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~janlud/navigation.html
  Illustrates and discusses the traditional cognitive psychological approach to HCI

• Notes on Defining of Computer-Mediated Communication - http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/jan/december.html
  Some notes by John December on the scope of the definition of CMC.

Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments

• The Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments - http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/virtual-worlds/EVE/index.html
  An attempt to describe the technologies and techniques being used to produce Virtual Reality (VR) applications.

• Colonizing Virtual Reality - http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/cultronix/chesher/
  Examines how the terms "virtual reality" and "cyberspace" came to mainstream attention and popular acceptance.

• Collective Intelligence: Becoming Virtual - http://www.uio.no/~mortenso/Hamburg.html
  Discusses the terms "cyberspace" and "cyborg"

• Connecting Bodies in Cyberspace - http://www.intelligent-agent.com/dec_bodies.html
  Experiments with technologically enhanced bodies ...

• Virtual Communities - http://netculture.about.com/internet/netculture/library/weekly/msub16.htm?iam=mt
  Links to a collection of essays on communities in cyberspace

• The Imagined Electronic Community - http://eserver.org/internet/community/community.html
  Explores how on-line community has been represented in business texts, in particular those describing internet commerce. The paper examines some of the changes that occur between 1994 and 1999 with respect to how the concept of community is represented.

• The WELL - http://www.well.com/aboutwell.html
  Claims to be the original Virtual Community. (The "Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link" (WELL) was founded in 1985)

• Howard Rheingold. The Virtual Community - http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/Lv/se-ss96/rheingold.html
  Short review of Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community

• Howard Rheingold. The Virtual Community - http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
  Full on-line text of Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community

• Neuromancer - http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/neuromancer.html
  Contains many links and references to William Gibson's book Neuromancer (including the full text of the book)