Human-Computer Interaction : An Empirical Research Perspective, Paperback by ...

Description: Human-Computer Interaction : An Empirical Research Perspective, Paperback by MacKenzie, I. Scott, ISBN 0124058655, ISBN-13 9780124058651, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Human-computer interactions (HCI) is an ever more important subject for study as computers become ever faster, smaller, and more integrated into daily life. MacKenzie (computer science and engineering, York University, Canada) emphasizes the performance of research into HCI in this work intended for the working scientist. The first chapter is an overview of the history of HCI going all the way back to Vannevar Bush's notion of the "memex" in his famous 1945 essay "As We May Think" and moving through the invention of the computer mouse in 1963, and then onto the first GUIs in the Xerox Star computer and the Apple Macintosh during the 1980s. Following this are two chapters detailing the problems of matching human reaction times and sensory modes with computer hardware and software, software and hardware interfaces, input devices, and the way computer interfaces model aspects of the outside world. Chapters four through eight represent slight change in theme towards the elements involved in actually doing scientific research into HCI. Topics covered here include research methods, experimental design and the use of human test subjects, statistical analysis of results for hypothesis testing, construction of models of interactions, and finally writing and publishing an HCI research paper. Each chapter concludes with student exercises and there is a supplementary website that contains software source code, several statistical applications, and packages for experiments in HCI. Figures are in b&w. Morgan Kaufmann is an imprint of Elsevier. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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