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User centered system design : new perspectives on human-computer interaction / edited by Donald A. Norman, Stephen W. Draper.

Contributor(s): Norman, Donald A | Draper, Stephen WPublisher: Boca Raton, Fla. ; London : CRC, 2009Description: xiii, 526 p. : ill. ; 23 cm001: 24911ISBN: 9780898598728Subject(s): Human-computer interaction | Interactive computer systems | System designDDC classification: 004.019

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This comprehensive volume is the product of an intensive collaborative effort among researchers across the United States, Europe and Japan. The result -- a change in the way we think of humans and computers.

Originally published: Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986.

Transferred to digital printing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. ix)
  • Authors and Participants (p. xii)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Section I User Centered System Design (p. 7)
  • Chapter 1 Architectural Design: an Analogy (p. 9)
  • Chapter 2 Issues in Design: Some Notes (p. 25)
  • Acknowledgnents (p. 29)
  • Chapter 3 Cognitive Engineering (p. 31)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 61)
  • Section II The Interface Experience (p. 63)
  • Chapter 4 Interface as Mimesis (p. 67)
  • Chapters 5 (p. 87)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 124)
  • Chapter 6 Notes on the Future of Programming: Breaking the Utility Barrier (p. 125)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 152)
  • Section III Users' Understandings (p. 153)
  • Chapter 7 User Understanding (p. 157)
  • Chapter 8 Understanding What's Happening in System Interactions (p. 171)
  • Chapter 9 Naive Theories of Computation (p. 187)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 200)
  • Chapter 10 Models of Computation (p. 201)
  • Chapter 11 Knowledge-Based Interface Design (p. 219)
  • Section IV User Activities (p. 239)
  • Chapter 12 The Structure of Users' Activities (p. 243)
  • Appendix: Collecting History Data (p. 262)
  • Chapter 13 Psychological Issues in Support of Multiple Activities (p. 265)
  • Acknowledgnents (p. 284)
  • Chapter 14 Communication Paradigms for a Window System (p. 285)
  • Section V Toward a Pragmatics of Human-Machine Communication (p. 315)
  • Chapter 15 (p. 319)
  • Chapter 16 Display Managers as the Basis for User-Machine Communication (p. 339)
  • Section VI Information Flow (p. 353)
  • Chapter 17 Answers First, Then Questions (p. 361)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 375)
  • Chapter 18 Helping Users Help Themselves (p. 377)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 398)
  • Chapter 19 Helping Users Help Each Other (p. 399)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 410)
  • Chapter 20 Designing for Error (p. 411)
  • Chapter 21 (p. 433)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 452)
  • Section VII The Context of Computing (p. 453)
  • Chapter 22 From Cognitive to Social Ergonomics and Beyond (p. 457)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 486)
  • Glossary (p. 487)
  • References (p. 499)
  • Index (p. 513)

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