• Berkeley's CS160 - Taught by James Landay and Laurence Rowe over past 5-6 years. Good readings in user-centered design and prototyping procedures. With project descriptions. Focus is on designing Web applications.

• Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing - taught at GA Tech by Thad Starner, one of the original MIT Cyborgs and a principal in fashion firm Charmed Technology.

• Tom Igoe's PIC Resources page under his Physical Computer Course Pages at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.

Books and Papers:

• Task-Centered User Interface Design - online shareware by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman.

• "Information Appliances and Beyond," edited by Eric Bergman, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2000. Interviews with Don Norman and developers from Sun, Netpliance, Handspring, Psion, Nokia, and others.

• "Modern Batteries: An Introduction to Electrochemical Power Sources, 2nd edition," edited by Colin A. Vincent and Bruno Scrosati. Good descriptions of the modern battery systems that are appropriate to today's appliances.

• IEEE Spectrum carries consistently interesting articles on technology directions, with detail and references to the original publications. Contents and highlights are available on the Web; articles can be viewed and downloaded if you are an IEEE member (which I recommend -- student memberships are very cheap). Three recent articles relevant to our interests are available on the course website:

• Two speakers are better than 5.1 - on 3D sound without using headphones, but incorporating some of the same tricks.

• Digital TV rollout - Good information. It presents the European point of view that HDTV is overkill, and that Europe's DVB, already in use for satellite TV around the world, is going to win. I suspect he's about 80% correct, since there is a lot of politics still to be played.

• Wireless data -- the mode of the future - This one's really for next year's course. But see what Irwin Jacobs (founder, with Andy Viterbi, of Qualcomm) thinks will help wires to go away.