Before you start, we want to make sure you have enough background information to proceed. We have prepared the following “must-reads” for you to get started.

• [Book] The Craft of Research,  Wayne C. Booth (Read at least the first 4 Chapters)
• [Book] Human Computer Interaction: An empirical research perspective, by Scott MacKenzie (Read at least Chapter 3, 4, and 5) 
• [Book] Research methods in Human Computer Interaction, by Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, Harry Hochheiser (skim through to know where the content is so that you can refer to them later when needed) 
• [Course] Coursera specialization, https://www.coursera.org/specializations/interaction-design  is good. But some courses/videos are not that much relevant (Instead of using the 7-day trial, try Audit)
• [Video] How to read papers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeaD0ZaUJ3Y 
• [Slides] Literature review: Survey paper start- Literature review 
• [Paper] HCI research as problem-solving, by Antti Oulasvirta and Kasper Hornbæk
• [Paper] Research Contributions in Human-Computer Interaction, Jacob O. Wobbrock
• [Book] Andy Field’s Discovering Statistics (reference, skim through, but you need to study it later) 
• [Book] On Writing Well — by William Zinsser

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