Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The classic text, Interaction Design by Sharp, Preece and Rogers is back in a fantastic new 2nd Edition!

New to this edition:

"The best basis around for user-centered interaction design, both as a primer for students as an introduction to the field, and as a resource for research practitioners to fall back on. It should be labelled 'start here'."
-Pieter Jan Stappers, ID-StudioLab, Delft University of Technology

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 1 What is interaction design?
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Good and poor design
• 1.3 What is interaction design?
• 1.4 The user experience
• 1.5 The process of interaction design
• 1.6 Interaction design and the user experience
• Interview with Gitta Salomon
• Chapter 2 Understanding and conceptualizing interaction
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Understanding the problem space
• 2.3 Conceptualizing the design space
• Theories, models and frameworks
• Interview with Terry Winograd
• Chapter 3 Understanding users
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 What is cognition?
• 3.3 Applying knowledge from the physical world to the digital world
• 3.4 Conceptual frameworks for cognition
• Chapter 4 Designing for collaboration and communication
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Social mechanisms in communication and collaboration
• Technology-mediated social phenomena
• Interview with Abigail Sellen
• Chapter 5 Affective aspects
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 What are affective aspects?
• 5.3 Expressive interfaces and positive emotions
• 5.4 Frustrating interfaces and negative emotions
• 5.5 Persuasive technologies
• 5.6 Anthropomorphism
• 5.7 Interface agents, virtual pets and interactive toys
• 5.8 Models of emotion and pleasure
• Chapter 6 Interfaces and interactions
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Paradigms
• 6.3 Interface types
• 6.4 Which interface?
• Chapter 7 Data Gathering
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Four key issues
• 7.3 Data recording
• 7.4 Interviews
• 7.5 Questionnaires
• 7.6 Observation
• 7.7 Choosing and combining techniques
• Interview with Sara Bly
• Chapter 8 Data analysis, interpretation and presentation
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Qualitative and quantitative
• 8.3 Simple quantitative analysis
• 8.4 Simple qualitative analysis
• 8.5 Using Theoretical Frameworks
• 8.6 Tools to support analysis
• 8.7 Presenting your findings
• Chapter 9 The process of interaction design
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 What is involved in interaction design?
• 9.3 Some practical issues
• 9.4 Lifecycle models: showing how the activities are related
• Interview with Gillian Crampton Smith
• Chapter 10 Identifying needs and establishing requirements
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 What, how, and why?
• 10.3 What are requirements?
• 10.4 Data gathering for requirements
• 10.5 Data analysis
• 10.6 Task description
• 10.7 Task analysis
• Interview with Suzanne Robertson
• Chapter 11 Design, prototyping and construction
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Prototyping and construction
• 11.3 Conceptual design: moving from requirements to first design
• 11.4 Physical design: getting concrete
• 11.5 Using scenarios in design
• 11.6 Using prototypes in design.Tool support
• Interview with Karen Holtzblatt
• Chapter 12 Introducing evaluation
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 The why, what,, where and when of evaluation
• 12.3 The language used to describe evaluation
• 12.4 Evaluation approaches and methods
• 12.5 Evaluation studies
• 12.6 What did we learn from the case studies?
• Chapter 13 An evaluation framework
• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 D E C I D E: A framework to guide evaluation
• Chapter 14 Usability testing and field studies
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 Usability testing
• 14.2.1 Usability testing of a large website
• 14.2.2 Conducting experiments
• 14.3 Field studies
• Interview with Ben Shneiderman
• Chapter 15 Analytical evaluation
• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 Inspections: heuristic evaluation
• 15.3 Inspections: walkthroughs
• 15.4 Predictive models
• Interview with Jakob Nielsen