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Books and articles I recommend

Human Factors and Usability

  • Human Factors in Engineering and Design (Seventh Edition). Mark Sanders and Ernest J. McCormick
  • An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering. Christopher D. Wickens, John D. Lee, Yili Liu, Sallie E. Gordon Becker
  • The Human Factor. Kim Vicente
  • Usability Engineering. Jakob NielsenThe Design of Everyday Things. Donald Norman
  • Design by People for People: Essays in Usability. Russell J. Branaghan (Ed.)
  • The Trouble with Computers. Thomas K. Landauer
  • Aging

    • Handbook of the Psychology of Aging

    User-Interface Design

    • Principles of Software User-interface Design. Deborah Mayhew
    • Task Analysis for User-interface Design. Joanne Hackos and Janice Redish.

    Human Error

  • Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error. Steven Casey.
  • The Naked Pilot
  • Evolutionary Psychology and the Psychology of Beauty

  • Why we Feel. Victor Johnston
  • The Moral Animal. Robert Wright
  • The Evolution of Desire. David Buss
  • The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins
  • Why is Sex Fun? Jared Diamond
  • Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty. Nancy Etcoff
  • New World New Mind: Robert Ornstein
  • Living with our Genes. Dean Hamer
  • Creativity

  • The Mind's Best Work. Perkins
  • The Act of Creation, Arthur Koestler
  • Consumer Psychology

  • How Customers Think. Gerald Zaltman
  • Why we Buy. Paco Underhill
  • Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Exploring Consciousness. Rita Carter
  • Mapping the Mind. Rita Carter
  • The Secret Life of the Brain. Richard Restak
  • Synaptic Self: How our Brains Become Who We Are. Joseph LeDoux
  • The Roots of the Self. Robert Ornstein
  • Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works. Ronald Kotulak
  • Judgment and Decision-Making

  • The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. Scott Plous
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Robert B. Cialdini
  • The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Barry Schwartz
  • Hedonic / Positive Psychology

  • Finding Flow. Mihaly Czykszentmihaly
  • Bowling Alone. Robert D. Putnam
  • Social and Semantic Network Analysis

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    • Pathfinder: Studies in Knowledge Organization. Roger W. Schvaneveldt (Ed.)

     

    Contact Information

    Russell Branaghan, Ph.D.

    Department of Applied Psychology
    Arizona State University Polytechnic

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    Russ.Branaghan@asu.edu

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