The instrumentalised user: human, computer, system

User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction

User-centred Human-computer Interaction

Computer interaction, animation and multimedia have changed cartography to a tremendous extent. This phenomenon requires new developments in cartographic theory and methodology. Especially interaction has influenced cartographic information processing decisively. Map-making and map-using have become one single and integrated process. The user is able to process and visualise data according to h...

User Satisfaction of the Human - Computer Interface 1 Development of a Tool Measuring User Satisfaction of the Human - Computer Interface

This study is a part of a research effort to develop the Generic Use Interface Questionnaire (QUIS). Participants, 150 PC user group members, rated familiar software products. Two pairs of software categories were compared: 1) software that was liked and disliked, and 2) a standard command line system (CLS) and a menu driven application (MDA). The reliability of the questionnaire was high, Cron...

User Behavior on an Interactive Computer System

behavior are discussed that concern the duration and frequency of terminal sessions, the use of language processors, user response time, and command usage. The methodologies of the behavioral sciences can provide data useful to systems engineers and designers of complex information processing systems. For example, the quantitative description of the usage of existing systems can provide an unde...

Towards User Adequate Human-computer-interaction

Human-Machine-Communication refers in general to an interdisciplinary matter. The following remarks restrict on engineering aspects as an overview which doesn’t enter into too many details. Furthermore, recently started research efforts of the Munich University Institute for Human-Machine-Communication are outlined briefly. Computers and technical communication systems are the most complex mach...