HCI

Designing a Great Mobile User Experience

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Navigating the Multi-Dimensional Landscape The goal of today’s blog post is to offer up some insights and advice for navigating the current mobile landscape with its myriad of screen sizes and pixel densities. Once upon a time I worked for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, and was part of their effort to be the first…

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5 Principles of User-Centered Navigation

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One of the most important concepts in navigation is that it should be easily learned. If it takes too long to grasp the navigational flow of a program, the user will become frustrated and lose interest. An easily learned navigation structure is the first step in creating user satisfaction. Instructions can be useful, but the…

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5 Principles of User-Centered Design

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As Mitchell Kapor states in his Software Design Manifesto: “If a user interface is designed ‘after the fact’ it is like designing an automobile dashboard after the engine, chassis, and all other components and functions are specified.” (Kapor, 2002) The important questions in creating a user-centered design are: Who are the users? What are the…

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Defining HCI

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Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. Accordingly, the three major elements of HCI research include: New interaction paradigms that enable users to communicate with computers and with others using computers in more effective,…

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Virtual Reality – A Historical Perspective

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Many believe that Morton Heilig was the first person to attempt to create what we now call virtual reality (Packer & Jordan, Eds., 2001), and in 1955 he wrote a paper called “The Cinema of the Future,” which outlined a framework for simulating a multi-sensory cinematic experience. Heilig’s goal was to present to the audience…

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