Designing Interactive Systems: A Comprehensive Guide to HCI 2nd Edition

Designing Interactive Systems is the most up-to-date and authoritative textbook in the areas of HumanComputer Interaction (HCI), usability, consumer experience and Interaction Design. David Benyon has taken the well-received first edition and remodelled it for the next era of interactive devices and applications.

 

The book includes numerous case studies and illustrations taken from the authors extensive experience of designing innovative products and systems. Each chapter includes thought-provoking challenges and reflective interjections pointing readers to related areas of study.

 

Features

        26 chapters in four parts covering the essentials, techniques, contexts and foundations of designing interactive systems.

        New chapters on experience design, mobile computing, Web design, Web 2.0 and ubiquitous computing, and new sections on emotion, affective computing, multimodal interaction and wearable computing.

        Excellent pedagogical features throughout the book.

        Broad coverage enables the material to be used throughout undergraduate and postgraduate study.

        Over 300 images and illustrations of the latest technologies, techniques and interactive experiences.

        Suitable for people with different disciplinary backgrounds such as computer science, design, software engineering, psychology, interactive media, information systems and many others

        Companion website at "http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/benyon www.pearsoned.co.uk/benyon containing website links, tutor notes, student notes, PowerPoint slides and all the figures from the book.

 

 

About the Author

David Benyon is a professor of HumanComputer Systems at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has extensive experience as a researcher, designer and writer in interaction design and HCI.

 

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David Benyon is a professor of Human Computer Systems at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has extensive experience as a researcher, designer and writer in interaction design and HCI.

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Table of Contents:

Guided tour

Preface

Publishers acknowledgements

Part 1: Essentials of designing interactive systems

1 Designing interactive systems

            1.1 The variety of interactive systems

            1.2 The concerns of interactive systems design

            1.3 Being digital

            1.4 The skills of the interactive systems designer

            1.5 Why being human-centred is important

2 PACT: a framework for designing interactive systems

            2.1 Introduction

            2.2 People

            2.3 Activities

            2.4 Contexts

            2.5 Technologies

            2.6 Scoping a problem with PACT

3 The process of human-centred interactive systems design

            3.1 Introduction

            3.2 Developing personas and scenarios

            3.3 Using scenarios throughout design

            3.4 A scenario-based design method

4 Usability

            4.1 Introduction

            4.2 Accessibility

            4.3 Usability

            4.4 Acceptability

            4.5 Design principles

5 Experience design

            5.1 Introduction

            5.2 Engagement

            5.3 Designing for pleasure

            5.4 Aesthetics

            5.5 Service design

6 The Home Information Centre (HIC): a case study in designing interactive systems

            6.1 Introducti...

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