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Norman. More to Interaction than Meets the Eye. Buxton, W. (1986) There's More to Interaction than Meets the Eye: Some Issues in Manual Input. In Norman, D. A. and Draper, S. W. (Eds.), (1986), User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 319-337. Bill Buxton Imagine a time far into the future, when all knowledge about our civilization has been lost. Obviously, such conclusions do not accurately describe humans of the twentieth century. In our example, it is with the human's effectors (arms, legs, hands, etc.) that the greatest distortion occurs.

My thesis is that we can achieve user interfaces that are more natural, easier to learn, easier to use, and less prone to error if we pay more attention to the "body language" of human computer dialogues. In this chapter I look at manual input with the hope of developing better understanding of how we can better tailor input structures to fit the human operator. Finally, my approach is somewhat cavalier. Alan Turing - Home Page. As We May Think. As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr.

As We May Think

Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. For the biologists, and particularly for the medical scientists, there can be little indecision, for their war has hardly required them to leave the old paths.

There is a growing mountain of research. Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition. Designing Web Usability: Book by Jakob Nielsen. Jakob Nielsen, 1999 Over 250,000 Internet professionals around the world have turned to this landmark, definitive guide to usability.

Designing Web Usability: Book by Jakob Nielsen

From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, Designing Web Usability delivers complete direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation. 432 pages, full color illustrations. (New Riders Publishing.) Please buy through these links: Amazon pays me a referral fee that doubles the share of the purchase price that goes to the author, giving me time off from other projects to write new books Reviews and Articles About the Book Educational Technology Blog: 10 Years of Web Usability (2010): "those chapters which focus on technique rather than technology are still relevant and many have become accepted practice. " Advance Reader Comments on Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity "Eighty gajillion things have been written about the Web.

"Jakob Nielsen's timing is perfect. Table of Contents. Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design. Dr. Werner Wilhelm Webowitz: Web Quack Psychiatwist. ELIZA.