Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (2-downloads)

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.   The much-anticipated fifth edition of Designing the User Interface provides a comprehensive, authoritative introduction to the dynamic field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Students and professionals learn practical principles and guidelines needed to develop high quality interface designs–ones that users can understand, predict, and control. It covers theoretical foundations, and design processes such as expert reviews and usability testing. Numerous examples of direct manipulation, menu selection, and form fill-in give readers an understanding of excellence in design The new edition provides updates on current HCI topics with balanced emphasis on mobile devices, Web, and desktop platforms. It addresses the profound changes brought by user-generated content of text, photo, music, and video and the raised expectations for compelling user experiences.   •Provides a broad survey of designing, implementing, managing, maintaining, training, and refining the user interface of interactive systems.   •Describes practical techniques and research-supported design guidelines for effective interface designs   •Covers both professional applications (e.g. CAD/CAM, air traffic control) and consumer examples (e.g. web services, e-government, mobile devices, cell phones, digital cameras, games, MP3 players).   •Delivers informative introductions to development methodologies, evaluation techniques, and user-interface building tools.   •Supported by an extensive array of current examples and figures illustrating good design principles and practices.   •Includes dynamic, full-color presentation throughout.   •Guides students who might be starting their first HCI design project

Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction     CH 1  Usability of  Interactive Systems     1.1 Introduction     1.2 Usability Measures     1.3 Usability Motivations     1.4 Universal Usability     1.5 Goals for Our Profession        CH 2  Guidelines, Principles, and Theories     2.1 Introduction     2.2 Guidelines     2.3 Principles     2.4 Theories     Part II: Development Processes   CH 3  Managing Design Processes     3.1 Introduction     3.2 Organizational Design to Support Usability     3.3 The Four Pillars of Design     3.4 Development Methodologies     3.5 Ethnographic Observation     3.6 Participatory Design     3.7 Scenario Development     3.8 Social Impact Statement for Early Design Review     3.9 Legal Issues       CH 4  Evaluating Interface Designs     4.1 Introduction     4.2 Expert Reviews     4.3 Usability Testing and Laboratories     4.4 Survey Instruments     4.5 Acceptance Tests     4.6 Evaluation During Active Use     4.7 Controlled Psychologically Oriented Experiments       Part III: Interaction Styles     CH 5  Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments           5.1 Introduction     5.2 Examples of Direct Manipulation     5.3 Discussion of Direct Manipulation     5.4 3D Interfaces     5.5 Teleoperation     5.6 Virtual and Augmented Reality       CH 6  Menu Selection, Form Fillin, and Dialog Boxes       6.1 Introduction     6.2 Task-Related Menu Organization     6.3 Single Menus     6.4 Combinations of Multiple Menus      6.5 Content Organization     6.6 Fast Movement through Menus     6.7 Data Entry with Menus: Form Fillin, Dialog Boxes and Alternatives     6.8 Audio Menus and Menus for Small Displays       CH 7  Command and Natural Languages       7.1 Introduction     7.2 Command-Organization Functionality, Strategies, and Structure     7.3 Naming and Abbreviations     7.4 Natural Language in Computing     CH 8  Interaction Devices     8.1 Introduction     8.2 Keyboards and Keypads     8.3 Pointing Devices     8.4 Speech and Auditory Interfaces     8.5 Displays — Small and Large      CH 9  Collaboration and Social Media Participation      9.1 Introduction     9.2 Goals of Collaboration and Participation     9.3 Asynchronous Distributed Interfaces: Different Place, Different Time     9.4 Synchronous Distributed Interfaces: Different Place, Same Time     9.5 Face-to-Face Interfaces: Same Place, Same Time   Part IV: Design Issues     CH 10  Quality of Service      10.1 Introduction     10.2 Models of Response Time Impacts     10.3 Expectations and Attitudes     10.4 User Productivity     10.5 Variability in Response Time     10.6 Frustrating Experiences      CH 11  Balancing Function and Fashion            11.1 Introduction     11.2 Error Messages     11.3 Nonanthropomorphic Design     11.4 Display Design     11.5 Web Page Design     11.6 Window Design     11.7 Color     CH 12 User Documentation and Online Help                     12.1 Introduction     12.2 Online versus Paper Documentation     12.3 Reading from Paper versus from Displays     12.4 Shaping the Content of the Documentation     12.5 Accessing the Documentation     12.6 Online Tutorials and Animated Demonstrations     12.7 Online Communities for User Assistance     12.8 The Development Process   CH 13  Information Search                                     13.1 Introduction     13.2 Searching in Textual Documents and Database Querying     13.3 Multimedia Document Searches     13.4 Advanced Filtering and Search Interface   CH 14  Information Visualization                                         14.1 Introduction      14.2 Data Type by Task Taxonomy         14.3 Challenges for Information Visualization                   Afterword:  Societal and Individual Impact of User Interfaces       A.1 Future Interfaces      A.2 Ten Plagues of the Information Age      A.3 Continuing Controversies