Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction 1st Edition

This is my go-to. It's quite academic and does not discuss the design process much - you will not find information about personas or prototyping, for example, but if you are interested in real, rigorous research, it's a great guide.

Nice book with lot of methods writing. So great to have as a quick reference.

This is an easy-to-read and easy-to-apply book. I bought this for a PhD in HCI starting in October, 2013, but found it so engaging that I have almost completed the book already.

It's a textbook used for my class. It's not bad actually. Just need to sit down & reaaad. Well, I haven't finished it.. So.. Yeah.. Enjoy the book people.

I bought the Kindle version of this book several weeks ago, as I need to know how to run Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) experiment properly. There is no doubt that the content of the book is superb. If you only have one chance to buy a book for your HCI experiment, you should consider this book. The content is very useful, particularly if you are really novice in experiment design, how to use appropriate statistical analysis for your result, and also how to construct informative "informed consent" for the user.Unfortunately, the Kindle version was not as good as the textbook. Some of the contents were misplaced, for example, contents of Table 3.1 were not properly shown in the Kindle edition (there were two columns in the table, but I could not differentiate the content of 1st column and 2nd column since all contents were mixed in one column). Other typos, such as in Table 4.11 (page 82 in the paperback textbook version) was very obvious and annoying. In my Kindle version, the printed table is similar as Table 4.10. Since this mistake raised question, I ran to check the mistake with the paperback version and it was confirmed that the Kindle version was not as good as the paperback version.If only Amazon can repair these mistakes, it would be great for future Kindle version edition.I am looking forward for the updated version :)

Great book.

I'm really happy that this team has put together a strong book on HCI research methods... The do justice to traditional controlled experiments, then cover surveys, diaries, caset studies, interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic methods. They provide a updated description of how to do professional usability testing and web-based online surveys, web logging, and even eye-tracking data analysis. Finally they close with a vital section on "Working with Research Participants with Impairments" - making it clear that universal usability to design systems for all users is part of what every usability professional is expected to do. I would have liked more screen shots with specific examples and stories of successful research projects that improved well-known web sites. I did like the ample references for further reading - overall a great resource and indicator of the maturation of HCI research.