People and Computers

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned with every aspect of the relationship between computers and people (individuals, groups and society). The annual meeting of the British Computer Society’s HCI group is recognised as one of the main venues for discussing recent trends and issues. This volume contains refereed papers and reports from the 1994 meeting. A broad range of HCI related topics are covered, including interactive systems development, user interface design, user modelling, tools, hypertext and CSCW. Both research and commercial perspectives are considered, making the book essential for all researchers, designers and manufacturers who need to keep abreast of developments in HCI.

Spis treści:
1. The future of graphic user interfaces, personal role managers
2. Beyond the workstation, mediaspaces and augmented reality
Part I. Methodology of Interactive Systems Development
3. Transferring HCI modelling and design techniques to practitioners, a framework and empirical work
4. The use of visual indexing as an interview support technique
5. A domain analysis of air traffic management work can be used to rationalise interface design issues
6. Manuals as structured programs
7. Improving education through computer-based alternative assessment methods
8. Visual programming in a visual domain, a case study of cognitive dimensions
9. Evaluating evaluation methods
Part II. Crafting Interaction, Styles, Metaphors, Modalities and Agents
10. A comparison of placement strategies for effective visual design
11. Evaluation of alternative operations for browsing hypertext
12. On the problem of selecting interaction objects
13. Minimising conceptual baggage, making choices about metaphor
14. Keeping an eye on your interface, the potential for eye-based control of graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
15. A linguistic approach to sign language synthesis
16. Generalisation and the adaptive interface
17. Agent-based interaction
Part III. Modelling Humans, Computers and Their Interaction
18. Multi-perspective modelling of interface design issues
undo in a collaborative editor
19. Qualitative models of user interface
20. Modelling interaction using template abstractions
21. The formal analysis of human-computer interaction during accident investigations
Part IV. Notations and Tools for Design
22. XUAN, enhancing UAN to capture temporal relationships among actions
23. Structured notations to support human factors specification of interactive systems
24. Discount dialogue modelling with action simulator
25. Executable task analysis, integration issues
26. Beyond data models for automated user interface generation
Part V. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
27. Designing a user interface for folding editors to support collaborative work
28. Collaborative use of X-windows applications in observational astronomy
29. Que sera sera - the problem of the future perfect in open and cooperative systems
30. Viewpoints, actionpoints and spatial frames for collaborative user interfaces.