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 p0001.djvu
User Interface Design for Electronic Appliances- Konrad Baumann and Bruce Thomas......Page p0004.djvu
Contents......Page p0006.djvu
Figures......Page p0009.djvu
Tables......Page p0016.djvu
Contributors......Page p0018.djvu
Addresses of contributors......Page p0021.djvu
Foreword......Page p0024.djvu
Acknowledgements......Page p0026.djvu
Part I Introduction......Page p0028.djvu
1 Background......Page p0030.djvu
2 Introduction......Page p0033.djvu
3 Interaction design process......Page p0056.djvu
Part II User interface design......Page p0076.djvu
4 Creativity techniques......Page p0078.djvu
5 Design principles......Page p0104.djvu
6 Design of on-screen user interfaces......Page p0135.djvu
Part III Input devices......Page p0156.djvu
7 Controls......Page p0158.djvu
8 Keyboards......Page p0189.djvu
9 Altemative interaction techniques......Page p0200.djvu
1О Speech control......Page p0217.djvu
11 Wearable computers......Page p0236.djvu
Part IV Output devices......Page p0244.djvu
12 Visual displays......Page p0246.djvu
13 Auditory displays......Page p0280.djvu
14 Tactile displays and speech output......Page p0295.djvu
Part V Important issues......Page p0310.djvu
15 Standards in user-interface design......Page p0312.djvu
16 Usability evaluation......Page p0322.djvu
17 Pleasure with products Тhе new humап factors......Page p0330.djvu
18 National cultures and design......Page p0356.djvu
Appendices......Page p0370.djvu
Appendix 1 Summary of guidelines......Page p0372.djvu
Appendix 2 Guide to further reading......Page p0382.djvu
References......Page p0393.djvu
Index of Authors......Page p0412.djvu
Index of Companies and Products......Page p0416.djvu
Index of Subjects......Page p0420.djvu