Human Factors for Informatics Usability - Rilegato

 
9780521365703: Human Factors for Informatics Usability
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0521365708 ISBN 13: 9780521365703
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1991

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
1991
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521365708
ISBN 13 
9780521365703
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
464
Redattore
Shackel B., Richardson S. J.
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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