User Interface Design: Effective Human-Computer Interaction Strategies (Third Edition): Effective Human-Computer Interaction Strategies

Author: Ben Shneiderman
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Based on his 20 years of experience, Shneiderman provides readers with practical techniques and guidelines for user interface design. He also dedicates significant effort to discussing fundamental issues and supporting his conclusions with experimental results. Interface designers, software engineers, and product managers will find this book an invaluable resource for creating systems that are easy to learn quickly, perform well, have low error rates, and high user satisfaction. To recognize the merits of this book, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Document Engineering (SIGDOC) awarded Ben Shneiderman the Joseph Rigo Award in 1996. SIGDOC praised the book for "lifting the veil of professional jargon and mystery in the field of human-computer interaction" and attributed its success to "readability and a balance of practice and research." This book is aimed at designers, managers, and evaluators of interactive systems, comprehensively covering the design, implementation, management, maintenance, training, and improvement of user interfaces in interactive systems. It specifically includes discussions on the human factors of interactive software, involving new considerations for various user communities; testing methods for developing and evaluating interfaces; direct manipulation styles for graphical user interfaces and other interaction styles; as well as design rules for effective information, consistent screen design, and appropriate color usage. Additionally, it explores more recent topics such as speech input/output, natural language interaction, anthropomorphic design, virtual environments, and agents. The book is intended for a wide range of readers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology, information systems, library and information management, business, education, human factors engineering, human-computer engineering, or industrial engineering, all of whom are engaged in human-computer interaction research and can benefit from this book.