Research Catalog

Title

Interfacing thought : cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction / edited by John M. Carroll.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Carroll, John M. (John Millar), 1950-

Description

xv, 370 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Interfacing Thought consolidates and presents theoretically important cognitive science research in the new and intensely active domain of human-computer interaction. It is a valuable survey of the whole range of problems and tasks in this growing field.

Series Statement

A Bradford book

Subject

• Human-computer interaction
• Interactive computer systems
• Human engineering
• Ergonomics
• ergonomics
• Interactive computer systems
• Human engineering
• Human-computer interaction
• Benutzeroberfläche
• Computer
• Kognitionswissenschaft
• Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
• Mensch-Maschine-System
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Mens-computer-interactie
• Cognitieve processen
• Mens-machine-systemen
• Computers

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Relations between cognitive psychology and computer system design / Thomas K. Landauer -- Learning about computers and learning about mathematics / Clayton H. Lewis -- Goal and plan knowledge representations : from stories to text editors and programs / John B. Black, Dana S. Kay, and Elliot M. Soloway -- Cognitive aspects of learning and using a programming language / Richard E. Mayer -- Paradox of the active user / John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson -- Cognitive resources and the learning of human-computer dialogs / Philip J. Barnard -- Technology transfer : on learning a new computer-based system / Donald J. Foss and Mitchell DeRidder -- A quantitative theory of human-computer interaction / Peter G. Polson -- Effect of practice on knowledge and use of basic lisp / Jean McKendree and John R. Anderson -- Cognitive analysis of people's use of software / Judith Reitman Olson -- Computer support for organizations : toward an organizational science / Thomas W. Malone -- Cognitive engineering-- cognitive science / Donald A. Norman -- HCI, what is it and what research is needed? / Phyllis Reisner -- Improving human-computer interaction-- a quest for cognitive science / John Whiteside and Dennis Wixon.

ISBN

• 0262031256
• 9780262031257

LCCN

86020974

OCLC

• ocm14188933
• 14188933
• SCSB-1169263

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library