User Interface Evaluation, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
A Structured Approach
Languages and Information Systems Series

A companion to the author's User Interface Evaluation, this book details a systematic and comprehensive methodology to measure and evaluate new or existing human-computer interfaces. The text will serve both as a reference source, and as a supplement to its sister volume.

I Introduction.- 1. Background and Status.- 2. Design Before Evaluation.- II Prerequisite Knowledge Areas.- 3. Supportive Tools and Techniques.- 4. Interface Structures.- 5. Basic Measures of Performance.- III Measurement and Evaluation.- 6. Evaluation Terms and Aspects.- 7. Tailored Measures of Performance.- 8. Evaluation Approaches and Methods.- IV Special Topics.- 9. Stress and User Satisfaction.- 10. Visualizable Objects and Spaces.- 11. Interaction and Mental Involvement.- 12. Structural Specification and Utility.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive methodology for user interface measurement and evaluation. It presents, in an organized framework, major assessment considerations for the evaluation of entire interface systems or system modules of both existing and new interface designs. This volume emphasizes interface structures, describing the conceptual, logical, and physical patterns that are significant to both the user model and the computer model in the dual-model relationship forming the core of human-computer interface. The introductory section delineates current progress in HCI evaluation and contrasts it with HCI design. A key chapter includes a survey of structured design methodology and demonstrates the application of some of its aspects to evaluation methodology. Subsequent