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The authors are all senior academics with a background in teaching, researching, and consulting in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Having worked together on two other successful text books, they bring considerable experience in curriculum development, using a variety of made for distance learning as well as face-to-face teaching. They have considerable knowledge of creating learning texts and websites that motivate and support learning for a range of students.

All three authors are specialists in interaction design and human-computer interaction(HCI). In addition they bring skills from other disciplines. Yvonne Rogers is a cognitive scientist, Helen Sharp is a software engineer, and Jenny Preece works in information systems. Their complementary knowledge and skills enable them to cover the breadth of concepts in interaction design and HCI to produce an interdisciplinary text and website.. They have collaborated closely, supporting and commenting upon each other's work to produce a high degree of integration of ideas with one voice. They have shared everything from initial concepts, through writing, design and production.

What is Interaction Design?

Understanding and Conceptualizing Interaction.

Understanding Users.

Designing for Collaboration and Communication.

Understanding How Interfaces Affect Users.

The Process of Interaction Design.

Identifying Needs and Establishing Requirements.

Design, Prototyping and Construction.

User-Centered Approaches to Interaction Design.

Introducing Evaluation.

An Evaluation Framework.

Observing Users.

Asking Users and Experts.

Testing and Modeling Users.

Design and Evaluation in the Real World: Communicators and Advisory Systems.

Reflections from the Authors.

References.

Credits.

Index.

"A near definitive guide which covers not only HCI but also the issues which effect and are affected by human computer interaction." (M2 Communications, 7 June 2002)

"...an excellent foundation for teaching interaction design, and a good text for self-study in the skills involved. I cannot recommend it too highly..." (AISB Quarterly, Summer 2002) 

“…consists of a wide range of issues that go beyond the traditional scope of human-computer interaction…useful to students…research and development people will find stimulating ideas on the potential of the web and of wireless and collaborative technologies…”  (Computer Bulletin, September 2002)

“…useful and usable by multidisciplinary teams…”   (Human / Computer Interaction Bibliography, September 2002)

“…the practicing professional will get a lot from this…supported by an innovative web site…”  (Atlantic Systems Guild, September 2002)

"…a must-read…unique, inspiriring…" (SIGHCI Newsletter)