People and Computers VIII

by Edited by J. L. Alty , D. Diaper , S. Guest

• ISBN13: 9780521466332
• ISBN10: 0521466334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned with every aspect of the relationship between computers and people (individuals, groups, and society). The annual meeting of the British Computer Society's HCI group is recognized as one of the main venues for discussing recent trends and issues. This volume contains refereed papers and reports from the 1993 meeting. A broad range of HCI related topics are covered, including user interface design, user modeling, tools, hypertext, CSCW, and programming. Both research and commercial perspectives are considered, making the book essential for all researchers, designers and manufacturers who need to keep abreast of developments in HCI.

Table of Contents

1. The design of reliable HCI: the hunt for hidden assumptions Erik Hollnagel

2. Beyond human computer interaction: designing useful and usable computational environments Gerhard Fischer

3. Precipitating change in system usage by function revelation and problem reformulation Wai On Lee and Philip J. Barnard

4. Icon design and its effect on guessability, learnability and experienced user performance Jackie Moyes and Patrick W. Jordan

5. Adapting to interface resources and circumventing interface problems: knowledge development in a menu search task Wai On Lee

6. A survey of usability engineering within the European IT industry - current practice and needs Andrew Dillon, Marian Sweeney and Martin Maguire

7. Modelling user performance in visually based interactions Jon May, Lisa A. Tweedie and Philip J. Barnard

8. Developing runnable user models: separating the problem solving techniques from the domain knowledge Ann Blandford and Richard M. Young

9. Power tools: new generation data presentation tools Eugenio Zabala and Richard W. Taylor

10. A generic user interface constructor for planning and scheduling applications Jan van Putten, Nardie Scharenborg and Auke Woerlee

11. Objects, invariants and treacle: animation in the views system Lon Barfield, Eddy Boeve and Steven Pemberton

12. A method for multimedia interface design Peter Faraday and Alistair Sutcliffe

13. A novel device for using the hand as a human-computer interface Christoph Maggioni

14. Reusing user interface designs: experiences with a prototype tool and high-level representations T. T. Carey, M. S. Ellis and M. Rusli

15. Beyond hacking: a model based approach to user interface design S. Wilson, P. Johnson, C. Kelly, J. Cunningham and P. Markopoulos

16. Specifying and prototyping dynamic human-computer interfaces for stochastic applications C. W. Johnson

17. Interface semantics and users' device models: identifying evaluation issues for direct manipulation design M. V. Springett and A. S. Grant

18. User-centred evaluation of explanation facilities in information systems H. Johnson

19. Critical incidents and critical themes in empirical usability evaluation John M. Carroll, Juergen Koenemann-Belliveau, Mary Beth Rosson and Mark Kevin Singley

20. The development of DRUM: a software tool for video-assisted usability evaluation Miles Macleod and Ralph Rengger

21. The three-dimensional graphical user interface: evaluation for design evolution A. G. Sutcliffe and U. K. Patel

22. A formal approach to the presentation of CSCW systems C. W. Johnson

23. Theory-based negotiation frameworks for supporting group work Beth Adelson

24. Autonomous support for group working: the aide de camp project F. P. Coenen, I. Finch, T. J. M. Bench-Capon and M. J. R. Shave

25. A study of turn-taking in a computer-supported group task Andy McKinlay, Rob Procter, Oliver Masting, Robin Woodburn and John Arnott

26. A longitudinal study of transfer between programming languages by experienced programmers Jean Scholtz

27. Expertise and display-based strategies in computer programming Simon P. Davies

28. MRE: a flexible and customisable program visualisation architecture Mike Brayshaw

29. Why hyper talk debugging is more painful than it ought to be Marc Eisenstadt

30. Towards cognitively salient relations for hypertext navigation Henry Bloomfield and Peter Johnson

31. Combining systems and manuals Harold Thimbleby.