Accomplished authors, Preece, Rogers and Sharp, have written a key new textbook on this core subject area. Interaction Design deals with a broad scope of issues, topics and paradigms that has traditionally been the scope of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (ID). The book covers psychological and social aspects of users, interaction styles, user requirements, design approaches, usability and evaluation, traditional and future interface paradigms and the role of theory in informing design. The topics will be grounded in the design process and the aim is to present relevant issues in an integrated and coherent way, rather than assembling a collection of chapters on individual HCI topics.

As the mobile telephone market reaches saturation and PDA’s become cheaper, soon everyone will have a small, wireless device with which they will be able to do more than just make telephone calls or keep diaries and address books. This book is a handbook to usability testing and information architecture for EPOC, WAP, PDA’s, handhelds, and handsets, which provides an overview of the medium and then details medium-specific issues and design strategies.

Twenty-nine papers, 15 of them first published in special issues of the journals ACM transactions on computer-human interaction and Human-computer interactions, make up this assessment of the state of HCI at the turn of a new century. Sections are concerned with models, theories, and frameworks; usability engineering methods and concepts; user interface software and tools; groupware and cooperative activity; media and information; integrating computation and real environments; and HCI and society.