 The AWK Programming Language
Computer users spend a lot of time doing simple, mechanical data manipulation
- changing the format of data, checking its validity, finding items with
some property, adding up numbers, printing reports, and the like. All of these
jobs ought to be mechanized, but it's a real nuisance to have to write a specialpurpose
program in a... |  |  Multimodal Usability (Human-Computer Interaction Series)
This preface tells the story of how Multimodal Usability responds to a special
challenge. Chapter 1 describes the goals and structure of this book.
The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable
arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR – “Taskforce for creating
human-machine... |  |  |