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The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
Free textbooks written by more than 100 leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professors. We have assembled our textbooks in a gigantic encyclopedia, whose 4,000+ pages cover the design of interactive products and services such as websites, household objects, smartphones, computer software, aircraft cockpits, and what have you. Name an item of design interest, and you'll probably find it discussed inside.
Table of Contents
- 1 Interaction Design - brief intro By Jonas Lowgren
- 2 Human Computer Interaction - brief intro By John M. Carroll
- 3 User Experience and Experience Design By Marc Hassenzahl
- 4 Social Computing By Thomas Erickson
- 5 Visual Representation By Alan Blackwell
- 6 Industrial Design By Caroline Hummels and Kees Overbeeke
- 7 Bifocal Display By Mark Apperley and Robert Spence
- 8 Contextual Design By Hugh R. Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt
- 9 Mobile Computing By Jesper Kjeldskov
- 10 End-User Development By Margaret M. Burnett and Christopher Scaffidi
- 11 Philosophy of Interaction By Dag Svanaes
- 12 Affective Computing By Kristina Hook
- 13 Requirements Engineering By Alistair G. Sutcliffe
- 14 Context-Aware Computing By Albrecht Schmidt
- 15 Usability Evaluation By Gilbert Cockton
- 16 Activity Theory By Victor Kaptelinin
- 17 Disruptive Innovation By Clayton M. Christensen
- 18 Open User Innovation By Eric von Hippel
- 19 Visual Aesthetics By Noam Tractinsky
- 20 Tactile Interaction By Ben Challis
- 21 Somaesthetics By Richard Shusterman
- 22 Card Sorting By William Hudson
- 23 Wearable Computing By Steve Mann
- 24 Socio-Technical System Design By Adnan Ahmad and Brian Whitworth
- 25 Semiotics By Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
- 26 Aesthetic Computing By Paul A. Fishwick
- 27 Computer Supported Cooperative Work By Jonathan Grudin and Steven Poltrock
- 28 Phenomenology By Shaun Gallagher
- 29 Formal Methods By Alan J. Dix
- 30 Personas By Lene Nielsen
- 31 Ethnography By Dave Randall and Mark Rouncefield
- 32 3D User Interfaces By Doug A. Bowman
- 33 Action Research By Ned Kock
- 34 Experimental Methods in Human-Computer Interaction By Paul Cairns
- 35 Data Visualization for Human Perception By Stephen Few
- 36 Human-Robot Interaction By Kerstin Dautenhahn
- 37 User Interface Design Adaptation By Fabio Paterno
- 38 Emotion and website design By Dianne Cyr
- 39 Human-Data Interaction By Andy Crabtree, Jon Crowcroft, Hamed Haddadi, Tristan Henderson, Derek McAuley and Richard Mortier
- 40 Design for All By Constantine Stephanidis
- 41 Research through Design By Elisa Giaccardi and Pieter Stappers
- 42 Affordances By Victor Kaptelinin
- 43 Semi-structured qualitative studies By Ann Blandford
- 44 Service Design By Jodi Forlizzi and John Zimmerman
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