Human Factors, Informatic Usability - Brossura

Shackel, B.

 
9780521067300: Human Factors, Informatic Usability
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ISBN 10: 0521067308 ISBN 13: 9780521067300
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sinossi

It is at once a comprehensive introduction, a thorough overview, and a guide to what is known about informatics usability, and how it can help solve practical problems.

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Descrizione del libro

Human factors is one of the critical issues in Information Technology, as industry realizes the need to change from technology-oriented goals to meet the demands of computer users. Human factors can help to improve Informatics Usability for real people, and to reduce the huge people-costs of human machine interactions.

Contenuti

Preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I: Informatics Usability - Background and Overview; 1. Human factors for informatics usability - background and overview; 2. Usability - context, framework, definition, design and evaluation; 3. The business case for human factors in informatics; Part II: System Design - Orientation and Approaches; 4. Human factors contributions to the design process; 5. Helping the IT designer to use human factors; 6. Interface design issues for the system designer; 7. An approach to formalised procedures for user-centred system design; Part III: Special Topics in Depth; 8. The contributions of applied cognitive psychology to the study of human-compute interaction; 9. Formal models and techniques in human-computer interaction; 10. Designing expert systems for usability; Part IV: Organisational Aspects and Design in Large Systems; 11. Organisational issues and task analysis; 12. Participation in systems design - what can it offer?; 13. Towards a human factors strategy for information technology; Part V: Design and Evaluation - Some Specific Methods; 14. A taxonomy and rule base for the selection of interaction styles; 15. Designing and evaluating documentation for IT users; 16. Evaluating usability; References; Author index; Subject index.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521067308
ISBN 13 
9780521067300
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
464
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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