1. People: Donald Norman UCSD (Cognitive Science and Psychology); Apple Computer; Northwestern University … Application of cognitive science to computers http://www.jnd.org/

2. People: Jakob Nielsen Bellcore, Technical University of Denmark, Sun, … Usability. Discount usability engineering. http://www.useit.com/

3. People: Jonathan Grudin UCSD PhD (Norman) MCC, Aarhus University, UC Irvine, Microsoft Research, … HCI and CSCW research http://research.microsoft.com/users/jgrudin/

4. Places: ACM SIGCHI ACM Special Interest Group ACM SIGCHI brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use. ACM SIGCHI provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). http://www.acm.org/sigchi/

5. Places: CMU HCII Carnegie-Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/

6. Places: UMd HCIL University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory One of the first university laboratories devoted to HCI activities http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/

7. Places: Virginia Tech HCI Virginia Tech’s Human-Computer Interaction Group Example of an institution that has a major focus in HCI http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/~rreaux/hci/