
1. Recommended Reading List for First-year HCI Ph.D. students
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

2. Identify and Evaluate Research Ideas in HCI
A good start is half the battle won. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas

3. The 5-Step Approach for Controlled Experiment Design for HCI
Controlled experiment, an approach that has been adopted from research methods in psychology, is now widely used in HCI. Design an effective controlled experiment is not necessarily easy, even for experienced researchers. Existing controlled experiment designing tools focused more on