User Interface Design of Electronic Appliances

✍ Scribed by Konrad Baumann, Bruce Thomas

• Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This simple and manageable guide to user interface design is written for the professional in industry working on product development and the decision process. It is directed not only to the human factors specialists, but also to technicians, designers, marketing and product managers and students.The book presents guidelines for user interface design including a catalogue of input and output devices for electronic appliances, adding material on the design process, interaction design, advanced input, speech interfaces, evaluation, standards, the move from usability to pleasure and cultural differences.Each chapter stands alone, so the book can be used as a reference handbook. Contributions come from several human factors specialists working in industry and in academia. The text is extensively illustrated by product examples showing good user interface design.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
User Interface Design for Electronic Appliances- Konrad Baumann and Bruce Thomas......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 16
Contributors......Page 18
Addresses of contributors......Page 21
Foreword......Page 24
Acknowledgements......Page 26
Part I Introduction......Page 28
1 Background......Page 30
2 Introduction......Page 33
3 Interaction design process......Page 56
Part II User interface design......Page 76
4 Creativity techniques......Page 78
5 Design principles......Page 104
6 Design of on-screen user interfaces......Page 135
Part III Input devices......Page 156
7 Controls......Page 158
8 Keyboards......Page 189
9 Altemative interaction techniques......Page 200
1О Speech control......Page 217
11 Wearable computers......Page 236
Part IV Output devices......Page 244
12 Visual displays......Page 246
13 Auditory displays......Page 280
14 Tactile displays and speech output......Page 295
Part V Important issues......Page 310
15 Standards in user-interface design......Page 312
16 Usability evaluation......Page 322
17 Pleasure with products Тhе new humап factors......Page 330
18 National cultures and design......Page 356
Appendices......Page 370
Appendix 1 Summary of guidelines......Page 372
Appendix 2 Guide to further reading......Page 382
References......Page 393
Index of Authors......Page 412
Index of Companies and Products......Page 416
Index of Subjects......Page 420