An annotated bibliography on user interface design

Abstract

This report is an annotated bibliography of material on user interface design literature, covering work available to us up to about May 1987. For each work there is a reference, a description of the work, and possibly a statement of the work's purpose. The description gives a summary of the work's content; the statement of purpose, or "goal," describes the intent of the work, and thus its overall tone. Some works do not have a "goal" paragraph. This is either because they build upon previous work (such as [Anson82] and [Anson80]) and have the same goal, or because they are purely expository (such as [Backus59]).