Research Catalog

Title

People and computers VIII : proceedings of HCI 93, Loughborough, September 1993 / edited by J. L. Alty, D Diaper, S. Guest.

Author

HCI Conference (8th : 1993 : Loughborough, England)

Publication

Cambridge : Published on behalf of the British Computer Society by Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Alty, J. L.
• Diaper, D. (Dan)
• Guest, S. (Steven)
• British Computer Society.

Description

x, 492 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

British Computer Society conference series ; 7

Uniform Title

British Computer Society conference series ; 7.

Subject

• Computer software > Human factors > Congresses
• User interfaces (Computer systems) > Congresses
• Computer literacy > Congresses
• Humans

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. PowerTools: 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, Jurgen 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 HyperTalk 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.

ISBN

0521466334 (pbk)

LCCN

gb 93062713

OCLC

ocm29468906

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries