Research Catalog

Title

When people use computers : an approach to developing an interface / Marilyn Mehlmann.

Author

Mehlmann, Marilyn.

Publication

• Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1981]
• ©1981.

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Details

Description

xvii, 142 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This book is intended for the person who needs to design a computer system to be used by non-DP people working from terminals. It outlines one approach to developing an interface for those people in such a way that the computer really will be a tool to help them in their work.

Series Statement

Prentice-Hall software series

Uniform Title

Prentice-Hall software series.

Alternative Title

Approach to developing an interface

Subject

• System design
• Interactive computer systems
• User interfaces (Computer systems)
• User-Computer Interface
• Interactive computer systems
• System design
• Informatik

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works
• Instructional and educational works.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
• Einführung.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 135-136.

Contents

Introduction -- Where dialog development fits in -- What use is a computer? -- Criteria for good design -- Structure of a dialog -- Section 1. Interface definition ; What do we need as input? -- Guidelines for terminal use -- Where to provide computer aid -- Making a documentation and training plan -- The role of the future user -- Who are the users? -- The penalties of bad design -- Evaluating the definition -- Section 2. Dialog design ; The function tree -- Describing a dialog step -- Expanding the guidelines -- Simulating a dialog -- Section 3. Dialog implementation ; Designing screen layout -- Screen appearance -- Appendixes ; A. Examples of frame templates -- B. An application development model.

ISBN

• 0139562192
• 9780139562198

LCCN

80025540

OCLC

• ocm06890235
• 6890235
• SCSB-51041

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library