Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface (Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction, Series Number 4) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521409217 ISBN 13: 9780521409216

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Designing Interaction, first published in 1991, presents a broadbased and fundamental re-examination of human-computer interaction as a practical and scientific endeavor. The chapters in this well-integrated, tightly focused book are by psychologists and computer scientists in industry and academia, who examine the relationship between contemporary psychology and human-computer interaction. HCI seeks to produce user interfaces that facilitate and enrich human motivation, action and experience; but to do so deliberately it must also incorporate means of understanding user interfaces in human terms - the province of psychology. Conversely, the design and use of computing equipment provides psychologists with a diverse and challenging empirical field in which to assess their theories and methodologies.

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Book Description

Designing Interaction, first published in 1991, presents a broadbased and fundamental re-examination of human-computer interaction as a practical and scientific endeavor. The chapters in this well-integrated, tightly focused book are by psychologists and computer scientists in industry and academia, who examine the relationship between contemporary psychology and human-computer interaction.

Review

Drawn from psychology, computer science, anthropology, management science, and industrial design, these essays reveal how contemporary psychology can contribute to the design of improved human computer interfaces. -- Book Description

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521409217
• ISBN 13: 9780521409216
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346
• Editor: Carroll John Millar