| Multimodal Usability 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Bernsen, Niels Ole (Author), Dybkjær, Laila (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848825528 ISBN-13: 9781848825529 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: This book is about how to develop and evaluate multimodal systems which are usable by, or fit, people. The main objective is to answer the practical question of what system developers need to know and be able to do in order to develop usable new multimodal applications. The need to know is addressed in the first part of the book, in which the role of development and evaluation for multimodal usability in the software engineering life-cycle is described, and 9 key multimodal usability parameters are presented as well as theory of modalities and multimodality. The need to be able to do is addressed in the second part of the book. The distinction between interleaved and iteratively performed (i) development for multimodal usability and (ii) evaluation for usability is discussed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | User Interfaces - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - Systems Analysis & Design - Computers | Interactive & Multimedia |
| Dewey: 006.7 |
| LCCN: 2009926949 |
| Series: Human-Computer Interaction |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.76 lbs) 431 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This preface tells the story of how Multimodal Usability responds to a special challenge. Chapter 1 describes the goals and structure of this book. The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR - "Taskforce for cre- ing human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication", 2003- 2007, www. similar. cc. SIMILAR brought together people from multimodal signal processing and usability with the aim of creating enabling technologies for new kinds of multimodal systems and demonstrating results in research prototypes. Most of our colleagues in the network were, in fact, busy extracting features and guring out how to demonstrate progress in working interactive systems, while claiming not to have too much of a notion of usability in system development and evaluation. It was proposed that the authors support the usability of the many multimodal pro- types underway by researching and presenting a methodology for building usable multimodal systems. We accepted the challenge, rst and foremost, no doubt, because the formidable team spirit in SIMILAR could make people accept outrageous things. Second, h- ing worked for nearly two decades on making multimodal systems usable, we were curious - curious at the opportunity to try to understand what happens to traditional usability work, that is, work in human-computer interaction centred around tra- tional graphical user interfaces (GUIs), when systems become as multimodal and as advanced in other ways as those we build in research today. |