Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction

by Shneiderman, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780321200587
• ISBN10: 0321200586
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Shneiderman's Designing the User Interface: Fourth Edition Preview consists of the third edition of the text along with a free booklet containing material from the upcoming new edition and six months access to a companion Web site featuring additional content. The preview material includes two updated chapters and new content from the upcoming fourth edition of the book. Designing the User Interface provides a complete, current, and an authoritative introduction to user-interface design. Students will learn practical techniques and guidelines needed to develop good systems designssystems with interfaces the typical user can understand, predict, and control. The book covers a wide variety of topics, including the World Wide Web, information visualization, and computer-supported cooperative work. It contains early coverage of development methodologies, evaluation techniques, and user-interface building tools. The author provides provocative discussion of speech input/output, natural-language interaction, anthropomorphic design, virtual environments, and intelligent (software) agents.

Table of Contents

For Preview Booklet

Human Factors of Interactive Software

Theories, Principles, and Guidelines

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen

ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges

Designing Trust into Online Experiences

A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design from Personal to Public

For Third Edition of Book: (each chapter begins with an introduction and ends with a Practitioner's Summary and Researcher's Agenda.)

Human Factors of Interactive Software

Goals of System Engineering

Goals of User-Interface Design

Motivations for Human Factors in Design

Accommodation of Human Diversity

Goals for Our Profession

Theories, Principles, and Guidelines

High-Level Theories

Object-Action Interface Model

Recognize Diversity

Use the Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design

Prevent Errors

Guidelines for Data Display

Guidelines for Data Entry

Balance of Automation and Human Control

Managing Design Processes

Organizational Design to Support Usability

The Three Pillars of Design

Development Methodologies

Ethnographic Observation

Participatory Design

Scenario Development

Social Impact on Statement for Early Design Review

Legal Issues

Expert Reviews, Usability Testing, Surveys, and Continuing Assessments

Expert Reviews

Usability Testing and Laboratories

Surveys

Acceptance Tests

Evaluation During Active Use

Controlled Psychologically Oriented Experiments

Software Tools

Specification Methods

Interface-Building Tools

Evaluation and Critiquing Tools

Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments

Examples of Direct-Manipulation Systems

Explanations of Direct Manipulation

Visual Thinking Icons

Direct-Manipulation Programming

Home Automation

Remote Direct Manipulation

Virtual Environments

Menu Selection, Form Fillin, and Dialog Boxes

Task-Related Organization

Item Presentation Sequence

Response Time and Display Rate

Fast Movement Through Menus

Menu Layout

Form Fillin

Dialog Boxes

Command and Natural Languages

Functionality to Support Users' Tasks

Command-Organization Strategies

The Benefits of Structure

Naming and Abbreviations

Command Menus

Natural Language in Computing

Interaction Devices

Keyboards and Function Keys

Pointing Devices

Speech Recognition, Digitization, and Generation

Image and Video Displays

Printers

Response Time and Display Rate

Theoretical Foundations

Expectations and Attitudes

User Productivity

Variability

Presentation Styles: Balancing Function and Fashion

Error Messages

Nonanthropomorphic Design

Display Design

Color

Printed Manuals, Online Help, and Tutorials

Reading from Paper versus from Displays

Preparation of Printed Manuals

Preparation of Online Facilities

Multiple-Window Strategies

Individual-Window Design

Multiple-Window Design

Coordination by Tightly-Coupled Windows

Personal Role Management and Elastic Windows

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Goals of Cooperation

Asynchronous Interactions: Different Time, Different Place

Synchronous Distributed: Different Place, Same Times

Face to Face: Same Place, Same Time

Applying CSCW to Education

Information Search and Visualization

Database Query and Phrase Search in Textual Documents

Multimedia Document Searches

Information Visualization

Advanced Filtering

Hypermedia and the World Wide Web

Hypertext and Hypermedia

World Wide Web

Genres and Goals and Designers

Users and Their Tasks

Object-Action Interface Model For Web Site Design

Afterword: Societal and Individual Impact of User Interfaces

Name Index

Subject

Index

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