Interactive Systems Design
Addison Wesley (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Book
Hardback
644 pages
978-0-321-31378-2 (ISBN)
Description
From multimedia workstations to hand-held PDAs, from VR headsets to networked PCs --the modern computer is predominantly interactive. Today's designers and software engineers need to adopt a user-centred approach to system design. Newman and Lamming present a comprehensive guide to modern design techniques using proven methods and realistic applications System designers and software professionals will welcome the book's focus on methods which have been tried and tested in real applications. Students of human-computer interaction and software engineering will benefit from the practical guidelines it offers for effective interface design.
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 172 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-321-31378-2 (9780321313782)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Outline table of contents This table provides a rough indication of changes to be made to the First Edition. Part 1: Getting Started Current chapter Comments Introduction 1 Update Defining the problem 2 Links to needs and to evaluation Application studies 5 Complete rewrite: relate studies to needs, to evaluations. Analytic evaluation 8 Largely unchanged Part 2: Design and Test Architectures new Websites and mobile devices: offering a range of design models Styles 12 Updated Web UIs new Principles, examples Conceptual design 13,14 Largely unchanged but reduced to a single chapter Use of guidelines 15 Largely unchanged Empirical evaluation 9 Major revision: highlighting fault detection vs measurement Statistical methods 10 Largely unchanged Part 3: Research Theory and models 3 Major revision Case study: Project Ernestine Case A Largely unchanged Case study: Forget-Me-Not Case B Largely unchanged Further case studies new With emphasis on new technologies and new application domains Contributions new Explaining the range of research contributions and related methods Putting Research to Use new How to make use of published research, with links to the bibliography Bibliography Updated and with an introduction to the main topic areas Discarded Design processes/representations 4 Covered in Part 1 System analysis and design 6 Requirements definition 7 Covered in Part 1 User interface notations 11 Covered in Part 2