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
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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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