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Teaching Materials Below is additional material associated with
the topics covered in chapter 6. An article by Chia Shen
entitled ‘a new paradigm for HCI’ can be found at: http://www.cs
.umass.edu/csinfo/newsletter/images/alummatters_fall04.pdf A
historical overview of GUIs and beyond, called: “The Graphical
User Interface. Time for a Paradigm Shift?” can be found at:
http://www.sensomatic.com/chz/gui/history.html There are many
sites that offer guidelines online. Examples include IBM
(http://www-03.ibm.com/easy/page/558) and US government
(http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html0 ). One site that
will test your website for accessibility, quality and privacy
for free is: http://webxact.watchfire.com/ A humorous site
called webpagesthatsuck.com provides a blog-based commentary of
really badly designed web pages and explains why.