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The Humane Interface. New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems ACM Press Series

ISBN: 1591403723
EAN: N/A

Year: 2000
Pages: 54

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• Human Interface, The New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• The Importance of Fundamentals
• Chapter One. Background
• 1-1 Interface Definition
• 1-2 Keep the Simple Simple
• 1-3 Human-Centered Design and User-Centered Design
• 1-4 Tools That Do Not Facilitate Design Innovation
• 1-5 Interface Design in the Design Cycle
• 1-6 Definition of a Humane Interface
• Chapter Two. Cognetics and the Locus of Attention
• 2-1 Ergonomics and Cognetics: What We Can and Cannot Do
• 2-2 Cognitive Conscious and Cognitive Unconscious
• 2-3 Locus of Attention
• Chapter Three. Meanings, Modes, Monotony, and Myths
• 3-1 Nomenclature and Notations
• 3-2 Modes
• 3-3 Case Study of a Noun-Verb Fix to a Verb-Noun ProblemH2 P classdocText
• 3-4 Visibility and Affordances
• 3-5 Monotony
• 3-6 Myth of the Beginner-Expert Dichotomy
• Chapter Four. Quantification
• 4-1 Quantitative Analyses of Interfaces
• 4-2 GOMS Keystroke-Level Model
• 4-3 Measurement of Interface Efficiency
• 4-4 Fitts Law and Hick s Law
• Chapter Five. Unification
• 5-1 Uniformity and Elementary Actions
• 5-2 Elementary Actions Cataloged
• 5-3 File Names and Structures
• 5-4 String Searches and Find Mechanisms
• 5-5 Cursor Design and a Strategy for Making Selections
• 5-6 Cursor Position and LEAP
• 5-7 Applications Abolished
• 5-8 Commands and Transformers
• Chapter Six. Navigation and Other Aspects of Humane Interfaces
• 6-1 Intuitive and Natural Interfaces
• 6-2 Better Navigation: ZoomWorld
• 6-3 Icons
• 6-4 Techniques and Help Facilities in Humane Interfaces
• 6-5 Letter from a User
• Chapter Seven. Interface Issues Outside the User Interface
• 7-1 More Humane Programming Language Environments
• 7-2 Modes and Cables
• 7-3 Ethics and Management of Interface Design
• Chapter Eight. Conclusion
• Appendix A. The One-Button Mouse: History and Future
• Appendix B. SwyftCard Interface Theory of Operation
• References
• Colophon