User interface design and usability Books

The eight-volume set, CCIS 2522-2529, constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.The total of...

The three-volume set LNCS 15806–15808 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2025, held as part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, MobiTAS 2025, held as part of the 27th HCI International Conference, HCII 2025, which took place in Gothenburg,...

Prepare to be a Microsoft Lists advocate and transform the way data is harnessed in your organizationKey Features:- Get to grips with Microsoft Lists and organize your data efficiently- Discover best practices and real-world scenarios to track...

UNLOCK THE POWER OF WORDS IN THE AGE OF AIYou don't need to code, you just need to know how to ask the right questions.Prompting Made Simple is your essential guide to mastering the most valuable new skill of the 21st century: communicating with AI...

This book provides a reasoned and authoritative description of what user experience (UX) is, why it works and what tools and techniques are involved, in line with the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience, based on ISO 9241-210.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2370 and CCIS 2371, constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2024, held Porto, Portugal, during November 21-22, 2024.The 16 full papers and 45...

Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems introduces the fundamental human capabilities and characteristics that influence how people use interactive technologies. Organized into four main areas-anthropometrics, behaviour, cognition and social...

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Domestic Photography and Technological Paths.- The Portrait Path (ca. 1830s-1890s).- The Kodak Path (ca.1888-1990s).- The Digital Path (ca.1990).- Digital Photo Adoption.- The Future of Domestic Photography.- Future...

Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems covers the peculiarities of commercial deployments of spoken dialog systems, from the tools, standards, and design principles to build them, the infrastructure to...

Contemporary Methods for Speech Parameterization offers a general view of short-time cepstrum-based speech parameterization and provides a common ground for further in-depth studies on the subject. Specifically, it offers a...

Designing for Windows 8 is a fast-paced, 150-page primer on the key design concepts you need to create successful Windows 8 apps. This book will help you design a user interface that is both delightful and effective, feels 'right' to your users, and...

You've just purchased a Kindle Fire. How do you set it up? How do you secure it? What can you do with it? In Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max, you'll learn how to set up email, social networking, videos, music, eBooks, contacts, calendar, and...

JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example provides a quick start to programming the JavaFX 2.0 platform. JavaFX 2.0 provides a rich set of APIs for use in creating graphically exciting client applications written solely in Java. You get a large set of...

User Experience Innovation is a book about creating novel and engaging user experiences for new products and systems. User experience is what makes devices such as Apple's iPhone and systems such as Amazon.com so successful. iPhone customers don't buy...

Android games programmers now have the power to write games for Android tablets. Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming explains how to enhance your Android games using the new tablet interface and the additional screen estate. You'll learn how to...

The march of the Android-based tablets has begun, including Galaxy Samsung Tab, Motorola XOOM, Nook and more. But where do you start? And what can you do with an Android tablet? Taking Your Android Tablets to the Max is a one-stop shop for users of all...

If you thought your phone was smart, you should see the new Android tablets! Based on Android 3 Honeycomb, these tablets provide all the computing power you'll need on a device light enough to carry wherever you go. Get the most out of your Android 3.0...

So much technology works, not by good design or by being a good fit to purpose, but because people make it work because they have to for some reason. We humans are incredibly creative and resourceful when it comes to getting...

This book is based on contributions to the Seventh European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication that was held at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, in July of 1999 under the auspices of the European Language and Speech...

Design and Use of Assistive Technology assesses major hurdles in the design and use of assistive technologies, while also providing guidelines and recommendations to improve these technologies. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving...

This book is appropriate for those specializing in speech science, hearing science, neuroscience, or computer science and engineers working on applications such as automatic speech recognition, cochlear implants, hands-free...

Preface - Creativity and HCI: From Experience to Design in Education.- Preface - Creativity and HCI: From Experience to Design in Education.- Embedding a Design Studio Course in a Conventional Computer Science Program.- Designing Design Exercises - From...

Low Level Approach for Image and Video Understanding.- GOP Structure Conversion in Transcoding MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC.- Simple Low Level Features for Image Analysis.- Fast and robust Face Detection.- Automatic 3D Facial Fitting for Tracking in Video...

Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence. This is the most recent volume in the Advances in Digital Forensics series. It describes original research results and innovative applications in the...

Improved Vehicle Safety and How Technology Will Get Us There, Hopefully.- New Concepts on Safe Driver-Assistance Systems.- Real-World Data Collection with "UYANIK".- On-Going Data Collection of Driving Behavior Signals.- UTDrive: The Smart Vehicle...

Background of the Verification and Validation of Neural Networks.- Augmentation of Current Verification and Validation Practices.- Risk and Hazard Analysis for Neural Network Systems.- Validation of Neural Networks Via Taxonomic Evaluation.- Stability...

Preface1 Socio-Technical Studies of Mobility and Ubiquity Carsten Sørensen and Youngjin Yoo Part 1: Keynotes 2 The Future of Work Thomas W. Malone 3 It's the Experience, Not the Price Lee Green 4 The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and...

Basic Neuropsychology.- Attention, Workload and Stress.- Design Analysis.- Usability Design and Evaluation.- Human Factors in Speech Interface Design.- The Usability of Spoken Dialogue System Design.- In-Vehicle Communication System Design.- Speech...

Digital Literacy for the Knowledge Society 1.- An approach to digital literacy for adults: the EuNIC proposal.- Digital literacy as a challenge for Teacher Education.- The Use of Interactive Whiteboards to Support the Creation, Capture and Sharing of...

Podium Presentations.- Optimization with Genetic Algorithms and Splines as a way for Computer Aided Innovation.- Methodology development of human task simulation as PLM solution related to OCRA ergonomic analysis.- Measuring patent similarity by...

The concept of usability has become an increasingly important consideration in the design of all kinds of technology. As more products are aimed at global markets and developed through internationally distributed teams, usability design needs to be...

Build a 3D rendering engine from scratch while solving problems in a step-by-step way with the help of useful recipesKey FeaturesLearn to integrate modern rendering techniques into a single performant 3D rendering engineLeverage Vulkan to render 3D...

Make your website stand out by unlocking the full potential of Bootstrap 5 and creating efficient UIsKey Features:Find out how to customize all parts of Bootstrap 5 with Sass, including working with the utility APICreate a unique website using only...

When users try your product or service for the first time, what encourages them to come back? Onboarding can make the difference between abandoned accounts and devoted use-if we design it as a holistic, ongoing process.Krystal Higgins demonstrates how...

In today's society, the quantity of information available to learners is so vast that new strategies of information processing and exchange must be continually developed and improved. E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from...

In recent years, the focus of environmental responsibility has shifted toward companies and a variety of highly specific, heterogeneous solutions for different environmental issues have been created. These solutions comprise a special category of...

Services and service oriented computing have emerged and matured over the last decade, bringing with them a number of available services that are selected by users and developers and composed into larger applications. The Handbook of Research on...

As Web services (any communication between two computers over a network) continue to evolve, publication and research related to the field must keep up in turn. Innovations, Standards and Practices of Web Services: Emerging Research Topics provides a...

As technology continues to advance so does the need for understanding how this will affect us. We, as the users are subject to actions which bring into conflict the needs and characteristics of human actors, the demands of technology, and the wealth of...

Das Buch beschreibt Konzeption und Realisierung von vernetzten Multimedia-PC-Systemen für den Einsatz in kooperativen Telekommunikationssitzungen. Ausgehend von einer Anforderungsanalyse wird unter Berücksichtigung ...

Effective interface animation deftly combines form and function to improve feedback, aid in orientation, direct attention, show causality, and express your brand's personality. Designing Interface Animation shows you how to create web animation that...

Continuous improvements in technological applications have allowed more opportunities to develop systems with user-focused designs. This not only leads to higher success in day-to-day usage, but it increases the overall probability of technology adoption...

Access Technology for Blind and Low Vision Accessibility, the second edition of 2008’s Assistive Technology for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: A Guide to Assessment, uses clear language to describe the range of technology solutions...