Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface

By John Millar Carroll

Book Overview

Designing Interaction, first published in 1991, presents a broadbased and fundamental re-examination of human-computer interaction as a practical and scientific endeavor. The chapters in this well-integrated, tightly focused book are by psychologists and computer scientists in industry and academia, who examine the relationship between contemporary psychology and human-computer interaction. HCI seeks to produce user interfaces that facilitate and enrich human motivation, action and experience; but to do so deliberately it must also incorporate means of understanding user interfaces in human terms - the province of psychology. Conversely, the design and use of computing equipment provides psychologists with a diverse and challenging empirical field in which to assess their theories and methodologies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521409217
• ISBN13: 9780521409216
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"