Xiaoyu Chen, Ph.D. Candidate

Accessibility

Getting to know more about blind and visually impaired people:

	Statistics of blindness in the United States, by the American Foundation for the Blind, http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=15
	A blind person tells you about being blind, http://menstuff.org/issues/byissue/blindness.html
	A web site for blind Chinese people (in Chinese), http://www.qy99.com/

Accessibility guidelines for developers:

	Section 508, the accessibility requirements by law, http://www.section508.gov/
	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999, http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
	W3C has launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device, http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/

Accessibility programs of some leading companies:

	IBM Accessibility Center, http://www-3.ibm.com/able/
	Microsoft Accessibility, http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
	MSDN Accessibility page, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/accessibility.asp
	Sun Microsystems Accessibility Program, http://www.sun.com/access/
	Apple Accessibility, http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
	SAP Accessibility, http://www.sap.com/solutions/netweaver/technicaldetails/accessibility.epx

Computing products for blind and visually impaired users:

A list of computing products for blind and visually impaired users, http://www.blinksoft.biz/sitemap.html

HCI Practices

	Whitepapers by the Nielsen Norman Group, http://www.nngroup.com/reports/
	User Interface Testing Methods and Tools, http://www.otal.umd.edu/guse/testing.html
	Usability Measurement and Questionnaires, http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/measurement.html
	QUIS: The Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/quis/
	IBM "Ease of Use" resources, http://www-306.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/558
	Fit for Human Consumption, a blog for Auditory Display, http://humanfactors.typepad.com/robtannen/auditory_display/index.html
	Qualitative research methods in information systems, http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/
	Survey instruments in information systems, http://www.isworld.org/surveyinstruments/surveyinstruments.htm

Mobile & Pervasive Computing

	IBM Pervasive Computing, http://www.research.ibm.com/thinkresearch/pervasive.shtml
	Familiar Stranger project, Intel Research Lab at Berkeley, http://berkeley.intel-research.net/paulos/research/familiarstranger/
	User Experience Design for Pervasive Computing Workshop, the Pervasive 2005 Conference, http://www.fluidum.org/events/experience05/

Teaching Resources

	Curricula design for Human-Computer Interaction, ACM SIGCHI, http://sigchi.org/cdg/
	The Joint IEEE Computer Society/ACM Task Force on the "Model Curricula for Computing", http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/
	MIT's OpenCourseWare, http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Arts

	A Timeline of Art History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
	Art from the Mind's Eye, Lisa Fittipaldi, a blind painter of abstract art and contemporary art, http://www.lisafittipaldi.com/
	Art beyond sight - Esref Armagan, a blind painter, http://www.mersina.com/gallery/armagan/index.html
	Accent on Rugs, http://www.accentonrugs.com/moderntap.html
	Fine Art Galleries, Online Artists Resources, http://www.artpromote.com/

Cooking & Recipes

	Cuisine Chinese Recipes, http://www.recipezaar.com/r/15/116
	Korean BBQs, http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,korean_bbq,FF.html
	Sushi, Tempura, and miso soup, http://www.garden-gifts.com/sushi.htm
	Thai recipes, http://importfood.com/recipes.html

Last update: June 10, 2005