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User interfaces (Computer systems)

Here are entered works on the point at which a user interacts with a computer system, either directly through a terminal or indirectly through a data processing department. Works on the connections or links between two or more computer systems or devices are entered under Computer interfaces.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Human-machine systems

• Human-computer interaction

• User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design
• User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Testing
• Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)
• Web-based user interfaces

• Interfaces, User (Computer systems)

• Working Through Screens: 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work (2010), by Jacob Burghardt (PDF at archive.org)
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines (revised edition for Mac OS X), by Apple Computer, Inc. (HTML at Apple)

• Customizing Vendor Systems for Better User Experiences: The Innovative Librarian's Guide (Santa Barbara and Denver: Libraries Unlimited, c2016), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)

• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)

• C++ GUI programming with Qt 3 (c2004), by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark Summerfield (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• An Introduction to C and GUI Programming (second edition; Cambridge, UK: Raspberry Pi Press, ca. 2022), by Simon Long (PDF with commentary at raspberrypi.org)
• Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets, by Julian Smart and Kevin Hock, contrib. by Stefan Csomor (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• GTK+ / Gnome Application Development, by Havoc Pennington (HTML at linuxtopia.org)
• KDE 2.0 Development, by David Sweet (HTML at kde.org)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Motif Programming Manual (third edition, 2001), by Antony Fountain, Jeremy Huxtable, Paula M. Ferguson, and Dan Heller (HTML and PDF with commentary at ist.co.uk)
• Motif Reference Manual for Motif 2.1 (second edition, 2001), by Antony Fountain and Paula M. Ferguson (PDF with commentary at ist.co.uk)
• Motif Programming Manual (second edition, 1994), by Dan Heller and Paula M. Ferguson, contrib. by David Brennan (HTML and PDF at oreilly.com)
• XView Programming Manual (1993 edition, updated for version 3.2), by Dan Heller, ed. by Thomas Van Raalte (PDF at oreilly.com)
• XView Reference Manual, ed. by Thomas Van Raalte (PDF at oreilly.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges (1995), ed. by Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF at microsoft.com)
• The CUTGroup: Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech (Chicago: Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2014), by Daniel X. O'Neil (HTML with commentary at cutgroupbook.org)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface, by Kent L. Norman (HTML at UMD)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)

• The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (second edition), by Interaction Design Foundation (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• East of the Sun, West of the Moon (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• Design for Real Life (c2016), by Eric A. Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher (illustrated HTML with commentary at dfrlbook.com)

• Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch: Results by the STEVIN Programme (c2013), ed. by Peter Spyns and Jan Odijk (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), ed. by Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley James McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren B. Collister (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (presented by META-NET; c2013), ed. by Georg Rehm and Hans Uszkoreit (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Computational Linguistics: Models, Resources, Applications (c2004), by Igor A. Bolshakov and Alexander Gelbukh (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at gelbukh.com)
• Natural Language Processing With Python (electronic Creative Commons edition, updated for Python 3), by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper (illustrated HTML with commentary at nltk.org)
• Speech Understanding Research (final technical report; Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1976), ed. by Donald E. Walker (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines (1994), ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Ergonomic Models of Anthropometry, Human Biomechanics, and Operator-Equipment Interfaces, by National Research Council Committee on Human Factors (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Operations Other Than War: The Technological Dimension (1995), by National Defense University Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology (PDF at dodccrp.org)

• Subject-Oriented Business Process Management (c2011), by Albert Fleischmann, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary, Stefan Obermeier, and E. Börger (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Information Technology for Management (Global Text Project edition, c2009), by Henry C. Lucas (PDF at Global Text Project)
• Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems (2000-) (full serial archives)
• Scaling a Software Business: The Digitalization Journey (Cham: Springer Open, c2017), by Brian Fitzgerald, Klaas-Jan Stol, Sten Minör, and Henrik Cosmo (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing (Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, c2006), by Mike Ebbers, Frank Byrne, Pilar Gonzalez Abrados, Martin Rodney, and Joe Veilleux
  • frame-dependent illustrated HTML at ibm.com
  • PDF at ibm.com
• Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains (New York et al.: Seven Stories Press, c2022), by Vitalik Buterin, ed. by Nathan Schneider (PDF with commentary at nathanschneider.info)

• The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building Technologies for Communities (second edition, 2014), by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)
• Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (open access edition; Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2013), by Ulises Ali Mejias (PDF files at JSTOR)
• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (London: UCL Press, c2017), by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)
• Facets of Facebook: Use and Users (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Kathrin Knautz and Katsiaryna S. Baran
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• It's Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2014), by danah boyd (PDF with commentary at danah.org)
• Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
• The Art of Community (second edition; c2012), by Jono Bacon (PDF at artofcommunityonline.org)
• The Art of Community (first edition; c2009), by Jono Bacon (PDF with commentary at artofcommunityonline.org)
• Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), by Brad King and John Borland (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains (New York et al.: Seven Stories Press, c2022), by Vitalik Buterin, ed. by Nathan Schneider (PDF with commentary at nathanschneider.info)
• How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.