The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications (Human Factors and Ergonomics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805844686 ISBN 13: 9780805844689

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002

Synopsis

The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications is a comprehensive survey of this fast-paced field that is of interest to all HCI practitioners, educators, consultants, and researchers. This includes computer scientists; industrial, electrical, and computer engineers; cognitive scientists; experimental psychologists; human factors professionals; interface and systems designers; product managers; and executives working with product development.

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of foundational principles, as well as the most recent advances in conceptualizing, designing, and evaluating computing technologies. It spans a variety of traditional and non-traditional platforms, including desktop and mobile computing, networked and virtual environments, and information appliances. In addition, the volume offers thorough coverage of interaction issues concerning diverse users, including men; women; children; the elderly; and those with cognitive, physical, and perceptual impairments. Another unique feature of this new Handbook is that HCI is presented in the context of special application domains, such as e-commerce, telecommunication, government, health care, educational software, entertainment, games, motor vehicles, and aerospace.

In this volume, an unprecedented number of top experts in the field of HCI share their expertise, experience, and insight regarding research, technological advancements, and specific methodologies in the field of human-computer interaction.

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Review:

This new handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of foundational principles, as well as recent advances in conceptualizing, designing and evaluating computing technologies.
—Interaction

This well organized volume begins with an evolutionary perspective on HCI, explores humans and computers in HCI, interaction fundamentals, and interaction for diverse users, including those with impairments. A unique feature is that HCI is presented in the context of special application domains, such as educational software, e-commerce, healthcare, etc. The handbook tackles the development process and management of HCI, discussing human values, ethics, and the evolving role of security, privacy, and trust in a digitized world, and it explores HCI's future. A welcome update for the classic Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction...Summing Up: Recommended. All levels.
—CHOICE

This book is vast. Vast in conception, vast in subject matter coverage and vast in physical size. Including the index and other reference material it is some 1300 pages, and it weighs in at 2 kilos. A 24-strong Advisory Board has guided the activities of 124 contributors, all admirably pulled together by Julie Jacko and Andrew Sears. The result is a landmark work; it would be difficult to find another on the same topic with equivalent breadth and coverage.
—IEEE

About this edition

• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0805844686
• ISBN 13: 9780805844689
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1312
• Editor: Sears Andrew, Jacko Julie A.