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Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Many aspects of usability testing have been thoroughly studied and documented. This isnt true, however, of the details of interacting with the test participants who provide the critical usability data. This omission has meant that there have been no training materials and no principles from which new moderators can learn how to interact.
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Ergonomics for Beginners: A Quick Reference Guide, Third Edition

CRC Press, 2008

Revised Contents Addresses Rapid Developments

Loaded with information on the design of work systems, workplaces, and workstations as well as human anthropometics, Ergonomics for Beginners: A Quick Reference Guide, Third Edition provides a useful quick reference and valuable tool for novices and experienced...

Smart Graphics: 9th International Symposium, SG 2008, Rennes, France, August 27-29, 2008, Proceedings

Springer, 2008

For centuries, artists and designers have been creating communicative graphics. With the advent of new forms of media, the emergence of paradigms such as ubiquitous computing, and the rapid evolution of interaction devices, there is a continuous cycle of renewal of the technologies and methods to support artists, interaction designers and...

Semantic Web for the Wo Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

The promise of the Semantic Web to provide a universal medium to exchange data information and knowledge has been well publicized. There are many sources too for basic information on the extensions to the WWW that permit content to be expressed in natural language yet used by software agents to easily find, share and integrate information. Until...

Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information (Oxford Series in Human-Technology Interaction)

Oxford University Press, 2007

Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990's Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of information growth continues unabated. This wealth of information provides resources for adapting to the problems posed by our increasingly complex world, but the simple availability of more information does not...

Building A Global Information Assurance Program

Auerbach Publications, 2002

Governments, their agencies, and businesses are perpetually battling to protect valuable, classified, proprietary, or sensitive information but often find that the restrictions imposed upon them by information security policies and procedures have significant, negative impacts on their ability to function. These government and business entities are...

Information Warfare and Organizational Decision-Making

Artech House Publishers, 2006

Organizations are among the most valuable and yet most fragile structures of our civilization. We rely on organizations to obtain information, to comprehend and process information, to accumulate and internalize information, to make decisions based in part on that information, and to execute those decisions. Organizations are ubiquitous because...

Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance.

In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it...

Machine Intelligence 13: Machine Intelligence and Inductive Learning (Machine Intelligence)

Oxford University Press, 1994

Machine Intelligence 13 ushers in an exciting new phase of artificial intelligence research, one in which machine learning has emerged as a hot-bed of new theory, as a practical tool in engineering disciplines, and as a source of material for cognitive models of the human brain. Based on the Machine Intelligence Workshop of 1992, held at...

Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology

Sams Publishing, 2001

Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "[T]hose who are designing, building, or managing the development of...

Multidimensional Geographic Information Science (Geographic Information Systems Workshop)

CRC Press, 2000

This book has been a long time in the making. The origins of the ideas in this book lie in 1990 when I attended a NATO-funded Advanced Study Institute in Las Navas del Marqués in Spain on ‘Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space’, organised by Andrew Frank and David Mark. After a long gestation, I started to write...

Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification: 13th International Workshop, DSVIS 2006, Dublin, Ireland, July 26-28, 2006, Revised Papers

Springer, 2007

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSVIS 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland in July 2006.

The 19 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote paper, and 2 working group reports were carefully reviewed and...

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