| Human-Centered Software Engineering: Software Engineering Models, Patterns and Architectures for Hci 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Seffah, Ahmed (Editor), Vanderdonckt, Jean (Editor), Desmarais, Michel C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1848009062 ISBN-13: 9781848009066 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: This book aims at establishing a meaningful dialog between the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community and Software Engineering (SE) practitioners and researchers on the results (both good and bad), obstacles, and lessons learned associated with applying software development practices in the field of user interface. Human-Centered Software Engineering provides accounts of the application of software engineering practices (which may be principles, techniques, tools, methods, processes, etc.) to a specific domain or to the development of a significant interactive system. The book gathers experiences gained by various companies and research centers working in the field of user interface engineering over a significant amount of time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General - Computers | Computer Science - Computers | User Interfaces |
| Dewey: 005.1 |
| Series: Human-Computer Interaction |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.70 lbs) 428 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Activity theory is a way of describing and characterizing the structure of human - tivity of all kinds. First introduced by Russian psychologists Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Vigotsky in the early part of the last century, activity theory has more recently gained increasing attention among interaction designers and others in the hum- computer interaction and usability communities (see, for example, Gay and H- brooke, 2004). Interest was given a signi?cant boost when Donald Norman suggested activity-theory and activity-centered design as antidotes to some of the putative ills of "human-centered design" (Norman, 2005). Norman, who has been credited with coining the phrase "user-centered design," suggested that too much attention focused on human users may be harmful, that to design better tools designers need to focus not so much on users as on the activities in which users are engaged and the tasks they seek to perform within those activities. Although many researchers and practitioners claim to have used or been in?uenced by activity theory in their work (see, for example, Nardi, 1996), it is often dif?cult to trace precisely where or how the results have actually been shaped by activity theory. Inmanycases, evendetailedcasestudiesreportresultsthatseemonlydistantlyrelated, if at all, to the use of activity theory. Contributing to the lack of precise and traceable impact is that activity theory, - spite its name, is not truly a formal and proper theory. |