Main description:

This book provides to manufacturers, designers and evaluation professionals the necessary tools for balancing design and the assessment phases during the product lifecycle. It proposes an integrated model of interaction evaluation for a holistic analysis of the user experience by both discussing in details the interaction testing methods, and promoting the involvement of disabled users in human computer interaction evaluation.

Contents:

Brief History of Human-Computer Interaction. Defining Usability, Accessibility, and User Experience. Why We Should Be Talking about Psychotechnologies for Socialization, Not Just Websites. Equalizing the Relationship between Design and Evaluation. Why We Need an Integrated Model of Interaction Evaluation. Why Understanding Disabled Users' Experience Matters. How You Can Set Up and Perform an Interaction Evaluation: Rules and Methods. Evaluation Techniques, Applications, and Tools. References. Index.