Overview

This volume contains the latest accounts of research supported by the European Commission in human-computer interaction and presented at a workshop on Human Comfort and Security in October 1995. Topics of the papers include: removing usability barrier, user centered approach to design, innovative user interface design, virtual reality, intelligent help and decision support. A wide variety of applications relevant for the information society are presented, such as railway travel information, automated telephone banking, intelligent help systems, integrated systems for handling environmental emergencies, 3D human motion simulators, etc. The book gives particular emphasis to making the access and use of information systems easy and comfortable for the users.

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Author:   Kadamula Varghese ,  Silvia Pfleger
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.515kg
ISBN:  

9783540620679

ISBN 10:   3540620672
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 March 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Beyond the Final Frontier: Usability at Reuters.- The New Media Interface: a Case for Reappraisal.- Long Term Research on Intelligent Information Interfaces.- ETHICS: User led Requirements Analysis and Business Process Improvement.- Bridging Software Design and Usability Analysis through Task Modelling.- MAPI: MUSiC Assisted Process Improvement.- Usability Evaluation of Software Applications.- Are You Sitting Comfortably?.- Voice-based Dialogue in the Real World.- MASK: Multimedia Multimodal Service Kiosk.- Spoken Language Component of the MASK Kiosk.- Designing Co-operativity in Spoken Human-Machine Dialogues.- Usability Analysis of Spoken Dialogues for Automated Telephone Banking Services (OVID).- Hypermedia-based Telecooperation Support for Marketing Software Products.- GNOSIS Tool for Computer-based Training.- Information Navigation in Teaching with DATABOOK.- GeoSol: Decision Support Services in Monitoring Water Quality and Crisis Management.- User Support for Estimating the Passenger Flow in Airport Terminals.- DIADEM: A Method for User Interface Development.- Transferring Research Results from the Laboratory to the Market by Means of Intelligent Decision Support.- Coordination of Multiple Input Modes in User Interfaces.- Developing User Interfaces for Hypermedia Data Bases.- Achieving Comfort and Security in the Use of Software Systems.- OPX2 Intelligent Help: an Example of Intelligent Interfaces.- Interaction Objects for Explanation.- Haptic Interfaces for Improving Interaction in Virtual Environments.- Facial Interaction for Human Machine Interface.- A Comparison of Design Strategies for 3D Human Motions.- Authors’ Index.

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