Ben Shneiderman. "Designing the User Interface"
Shneiderman, 1998, "Designing the User Interface". Addison-Wesley Longman Inc., Reading Massachusetts. (638 pp).
Ben Shneiderman's book is used in the first year HCI course of the Master of IT education at Aalborg University. Beside the book the course lecture notes contain useful information and further references.
The following chapters in Shneiderman's book are recommended as primary reading.
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CONTENTS (example) |
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Chapter 1
Human Factors of Interactive Software pages 4 - 49 |
1.3 Goals of User-Interface Design (pp. 14)
1.4.4. Exploratory, creative, and coooperative systems (pp. 17) 1.5.2 Cognitive and perceptual abilities (pp. 20) 1.5.3 Personality differences (pp.21) References (pp. 33-49). (Just a pointer to furher reading for those interested) |
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Chapter 2
Theories Priniciples, and Guidelines pages 52 - 93 |
2.2 High-Level Theories (pp. 53)
2.3 Object-Action Interface Model (pp. 61) 2.4.1 Usage profiles (pp. 67) 2.4.3 Interaction styles (pp. 71) |
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Chapter 3
Managing Design Processes pages 95 - 121 |
3.4 Development Methodologies (pp. 104)
3.5 Ethnographic Observation (pp. 107) 3.6 Participatory Design (pp. 109) 3.7 Scenario Development (pp. 111) |
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Chapter 4
Expert Reviews, Usability Testing, Surveys, and Continuing Assessments pages 123 - 153 |
4.2 Expert Reviews (pp. 125)
4.3 Usability Testing and Laboratories (pp. 127) 4.4 Surveys (pp. 132) 4.5 Acceptance Tets (pp. 135) 4.6 Evaluation During Active Use (pp. 145) |
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Chapter 6
Direct Manipulation and Virtual Environments pages 185 - 233 |
6.2 Examples of Direct-Manipulation Systems (pp. 187)
6.3 Explanation of Direct Manipulation (pp. 202) 6.7 Remote Direct Manipulation (pp. 217) 6.8 Virtual Environments (pp. 221) |
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Chapter 9
Interaction Devices pages 305 - 349 |
9.3 Pointing Devices (pp. 315)
9.4 Speech Recognition, Digitization, and Generation (pp. 327) |
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Chapter 14
Computer Supported Cooperative Work pages 477-507 |
14.3 Asynchronous Interactions: Different Time, Different Place (pp. 482)
14.4 Synchronous Distributed: Different Place, Same Time (pp. 488) 14.5 Face to Face: Same Place, Same Time (pp. 494) 14.6 Appying CSCW to Education (pp. 498) |
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Chapter 15
Information Search and Visualization pages 509 - 549 |
15.2 Database Query and Phrases Search in Textual Documents (pp. 513)
15.3 Multimedia Document Search (pp. 519) 15.4 Information Visualization (pp. 522) |
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Chapter 16
Hypermedia and the World Wide Web pages 551 - 583 |
16.1 Introduction (pp. 552)
16.6 Object-Action Interface Model for Web Site Design (pp. 567) |
See also http://www.aw.com/DTUI/