Human Interface Research.Txt

Over the past few weeks I have received numerous requests for information regarding human factors experiments which were conducted in order to develop the Macintosh computer. This was in response to the question I had posted several weeks before. I am sending all of the e-mail I received related to this issue. I did find on my own some fairly good information, but it seems as though much of the Mac development was first of all based on the Xerox Star, and secondly not very emperically, but rather based on common sense. One good information source containing some early Star experiments is "Readings in Human-Computer Interaction A Multidisciplinary Approach" by Ronald M. Baecker and William A.S. Buxton. This book contains, "Human Factors Testing in the Design of Xerox's 8010 Star Office Workstation" by William L. Bewley, Teresa L Roberts, David Schroit and William L. Verplank also "Designing the Star User Interface" by David Canfield Smith,