This page contains a number of links to useful background resources about interaction design. If you come across something that you think would be good to add here, please either post the details as a request to the class newsgroup, or alternatively email to the teaching staff and we will add it.
Another history of interaction design
Marc Rettig has a number of useful resources on his site, including this presentation on the history of interaction design [local link to .pdf]. How do you think it compares with the lecture in week 2?
Doug Engelbart & the 1968 Demo
Doug Engelbart is probably best known as the inventor of the mouse, but this was only one aspect of the groundbreaking work he led in the 1960s. In particular, they gave a demonstration of the NLS system in 1968. The archive includes streaming video from that demo, as well as details about the other technologies that Engelbart pioneered at the Bootstrap Institute.
IxDA: The Interaction Design Association
"The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a non-profit professional organization whose focus is promoting both the field of interaction design and the interests of an international community of practitioners, managers, educators, and students of interaction design."
They have recently created a community site, which revolves around two email lists for discussion and announcements.
On being an Interaction Designer
Various people have written about what it means/takes to be an interaction designer