Human-Computer Interaction:
An Empirical Research Perspective

 

I. Scott MacKenzie

York University, Toronto, Canada

 

Last update: September 27, 2023

 

 

 

 

Web resources for the book will be posted here.  To see the complete Table of Contents, click the cover-image above. You can purchase the book through Amazon or the publisher, Elsevier.

 

Page numbers appear below in parentheses.  These refer to the location in the book where the software or other information in the file is discussed.

 

The zip files below contain Java applications, including source files and supporting files for the APIs.  Instructions for running the applications, etc., are found in the APIs.  Refer as well to the page in the book where the application is presented.

 

Experiment Software

Note: The latest version of the software below is on the web site for my experiment software: click here

     LetterGuessingExperiment.zip (p. 68) (API)

     GraffitiExperiment.zip (p. 69) (API)

     ReactionTimeExperiment.zip (p. 70) (API)

     PhoneKeypadExperiment.zip (p. 270) (API)

     FittsTaskTwo (p. 291) (API)

     TypingTestExperiment.zip (p. 317) (API)

     SoftKeyboardExperiment.zip (p. 317) (API)

 

Statistics Software

New: GoStats – includes and replaces the stats utilities below: GoStats.jar (API)

  Anova2 (p. 206)

  PostHoc (to accompany Anova2)

  ChiSquare (p. 211)

  MannWhitneyU (p. 216)

  WilcoxonSignedRank (p. 218)

  KruskalWallis (p. 218)

  Friedman (p. 221)

 

Android Downloads

The apk files below are intended for tablets.  The required minimum Android version is 3.0.

 

  GraffitiExperiment.apk – (p. 69) (Note: For the latest version of this software, please visit my web site for experiment software: click here)

 

Text File Downloads

  d1-wordfreq.txt (p. 51) (English word-frequency list)

  fr-wordfreq.txt (p. 51) (French word-frequency list)

  de-wordfreq.txt (p. 51) (German word-frequency list)

  fi-wordfreq.txt (p. 51) (Finnish word-frequency list)

  sms-wordfreq.txt (p. 51) (SMS word-frequency list)

 

Spreadsheet Downloads

  hanzipinyin_statistics_raw.xls (p. 51) (Mandarin Chinese pinyin-frequency list)

  07-StylusTapping.xls (pp. 247-248) (Figure 7.12, Figure 7.13)

  07-FittsLaw.xls (pp. 253-254) (Figure 7.16, Figure 7.17)

  07-InformationInEnglishAlphabet.xls (p. 257) (Figure 7.19)

  07-KLMExample.xls (pp. 263-264) (Figure 7.26, Equation 22)

  07-OptiLearningModel.xls (pp. 276-277) (Figure 7.36, Figure 7.37, Equation 29)

  07-MultipleRegressionExample.xlsx (pp. 280-281) (Figure 7.40, Equation 33)

 

Other Downloads

  SimpleExperiment.zip (p. 316) (in-class experiment similar to student exercise 8-3)

 

Power Point Slides

  PowerPoint slides are available through the publisher for instructors adopting the book as a course text. Click here to go to the publisher’s web site to setup an account.

  Better yet, just contact me and I'll send you my slides.

 

Errata

  Click here

 

Contact

  Comments/suggestions welcome.  Please contact Scott MacKenzie (email: mack “at” yorku.ca).