Encyclopedia of Information Systems, Volume Four Copyright © 2002 by Academic Press. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. 256-1 I. DEFINITIONS II. HISTORY OF HUMAN–COMPUTER INTERFACE III. THE INTERFACE DESIGN AND USABILITY PROCESS IV. FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERFACE DESIGN V. USER-CENTERED DESIGN PRINCIPLES VI. THE WEB USER EXPERIENCE VII. NEW DIRECTIONS IN HUMAN–COMPUTER INTERACTION VIII...

One of the important issues in designing a brain-computer interface system is to select the type of mental activity to be imagined. In some of these systems, mental activity varies with user intent and action that must be controlled by the brain-computer system, and in a number of other signals, the received signals contain the same activity-related mental activity that should be performed by t...

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...

In the pervasive computing era, mobile phones and personal digital assistants are widely used for data collection. The traditional user interfaces which are employed for data collection in personal computer environments are to be modified appropriately for the mobile environment. Because, it is difficult to display full interface on a single mobile screen due to the limitation of the mobile pho...

The user interface is that part of a computer system through which human user and computer communicate. With the increasing prevalence of interactive personal computer systems the importance of human communication is growing steadily, and many systems now stand or fall on the quality of their interfaces. Interfaces consume a large amount of software construction and maintenance effort—estimates...