Human-Computer Interaction
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The second edition of Human-Computer Interaction established itself as one of the classic textbooks in the area, with its broad coverage and rigorous approach, this new edition builds on the existing strengths of the book, but giving the text a more student-friendly slant and improving the coverage in certain areas. The revised structure, separating out the introductory and more advanced material will make it easier to use the book on a variety of courses. This new … More >>
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Anonymous said :
February 21, 2010 at 11:26 am
I am currently studying CS at university and one of my classes in HCI. All I can say about this book is that even the tutor for the class hated this book – as did all the students – so much so that the next semesters’ book is going to be something else.
Rating: 2 / 5
Carl-Erik Herheim said :
February 21, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I’m a computer science student and last semester I had a GUI course where this HCI book was in the curriculum. It has to -without a doubt- be the worst book I have ever read. There is absolutely nothing useful in it, whatsoever. Nothing in that book will help people design better user interfaces for their programs/web pages. You’ll be much better off simply with the use of common sense!
Rating: 1 / 5
Anonymous said :
February 21, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I had the misfortune of having to buy this book for a night course I took for personal interest. As a an engineering professional, I found the ideas of having a customer throughout architecture, design, test completely impractical. Other impracticalities include assessing usuability by hiring an expert in cognitive behavior.
I had hoped the book contained information that would help with the practical design of gadgets and/or GUI interfaces. No examples of good and bad, what the public in general wants, how this is affected by demographics, etc.
This book contains hardly and only a small amount of technical, non-subjective material.
The book is also not gender neutral and uses “she” often when they refer to a non-specific user/person, which got on my nerves!
Rating: 2 / 5
Lisa Hullender said :
February 21, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Book was received in a very timely manner. The book was in great condition. Very professionally handled transaction and I would highly recommend ordering from this company. I will be using this company in the future for purchasing used textbooks.
Rating: 4 / 5
it_reader said :
February 21, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I’m a CS student with 7 years of IT experience. This book is compulsory for my course so I have no choice but to read it. I would rate this book among worst IT books ever. Although, some ideas suppose to be useful, but the language and lack of illustrations make them dull and unclear. Moreover, it has unreasonable complicity to describe a simple idea or situation, definitely confusing readers. It’s kind of funny that one of the main purpose of this book is to teach you to design a good and understandable interface, but in opposite, it has a quite bad interface itself.
Rating: 1 / 5