Human factors in computer systems: some useful readings

Four years ago I began teaching a course on Human Factors and Computer Systems at the University of Michigan (formerly Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) 491, now IOE 436). An overview of that course is given in a paper that appeared in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Green, 1984). That paper sparked the interest of many people outside the University and, as a consequence, I have received requests for additional information. While there have been many improvements in the class exercises and software used for the course since that article, a significant change was the addition of a collection of readings two years ago. This article identifies those materials and comments on them. That information should be useful to educators developing their own courses and to practitioners interested in current developments in user interface design.