Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book is an excellent
guide to the methods of usability engineering. The book provides the tools needed to avoid …

Human-computer interaction (HCI) is much broader than the study of interface design and
input devices. It includes considerations of the social, political, ethical, and societal …

Three dimensional computer applications such as CAD packages are often difficult to use
because of inadequate depth feedback to the user. It has, however, been shown that audio …

Our work is dealing with alternative interaction modes for visually impaired and blind people
to use computers. The aim of the proposed approach is to exploit the human hearing …

Large interactive displays have become ubiquitous in our everyday lives, but these displays
are designed for the needs of sighted people. In this paper, we specifically address assisting …

An experiment was carried out to estimate the effect of sound feedback on the work of a
plant operator. Eight students of computer science operated a process simulation program of …

Interactive visualization and visual analytics tools have been designed and developed in the
past and will be developed in the future as well. In each application domain in which data is …

One of the greatest challenges to the visually impaired student in science and mathematics
disciplines is the reading and writing of complex mathematical equations or have convenient …

After surveying the concepts of audio windowing, this paper elaborates taxonomies of three
sets of its dimensions—spatial audio (" throwing sound"), timbre (" pitching sound"), and gain …

This paper identifies guidelines for designing human-computer interfaces using telephones
as terminals. Although they are ubiquitous and convenient to use, phones differ from screen …