User Interface Design, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994 A Structured Approach Languages and Information Systems Series

Solidly founded on 25 years of research and teaching, the author integrates the salient features of the subdisciplines of computer science into a comprehensive conceptual framework for the design of human-computer interfaces. He combines definitions, models, taxonomies, structures, and techniques with extensive references and citations to provide professors and students of all levels with a text and practical reference.

I Introduction.- 1. Historical Perspective.- 2. Definitions and Dependencies.- II Prerequisite Knowledge Areas.- 3. User Capabilities and Limitations.- 4. Computer Applications and Tasks.- 5. Computer Capabilities and Limitations.- 6. Interaction Characteristics and Options.- 7. Representation Models and Methods.- 8. Supportive Tools and Techniques.- III Design and Development.- 9. Design Terms and Decision Constructs.- 10. Design Approaches and Methods.- 11. Design Objects, Modules, and Models.- IV Special-Purpose Designs.- 12. Network-Oriented Design.- 13. Adaptive Design.

This pioneering text presents an interdisciplinary methodological framework for human-computer interaction (HCI) design based on such decision-making tools as schematics and paradigms and the corresponding specifications of required design features. This innovative resource provides : an overview of the field, describing a high-level model of human-computer relationship , coverage of the major factors for HCI design, including user requirements, user-oriented analysis of computer applications and tasks, and computer capabilities that affect the user in HCI , a description of potential design features, including interaction techniques and styles, their bases and compositions , models and methods for representing all objects in HCI , and special models and tools to support HCI design , a pre