Cross-disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605661422 ISBN 13: 9781605661421

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2009

Synopsis

It is becoming increasingly necessary to systematically take into account human interaction and activity, and new technologies along with the completely renewed social and cultural environments that such digital environments and interfaces are calling for are now capable of delivering. Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces collects over 20 chapters covering the most recent in-depth issues within the field of human computer interaction (HCI). A necessary reference source for those in academia as well as the HCI industry, this book presents useful new approaches and methodologies for analysis, design, and evaluation.

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About the Author

Panayiotis Zaphiris is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Informatics of City University, London. Before joining City University, he was a researcher at the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University, where he also got his Ph.D. in industrial engineering. Giorgos Zacharia is the founder and chief scientist of Open Ratings Inc. (ORI), and a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Center for Biological and Computational Learning of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA. He is a native of Cyprus, where he set up the country's first commercial Web site, and is the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Kypros-Net Inc. in Cyprus.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605661422
• ISBN 13: 9781605661421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Zaphiris Panayiotis, Ang Chee Siang