Frontiers of Human-Centered Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments
By: edited by Rae A. Earnshaw, Richard A. Guedj, Andries van Dam, John A. Vince
Contributors: Guedj, Richard A.; Dam, Andries van; Vince, John (John A.)
Publisher: Springer London; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9781447102595
Description: This volume presents the results of a joint National Science Foundation and European Commission Workshop which was set up to identify the future key strategic research directions in the areas of human-centred interaction, online communities and virtual environments. A research agenda is proposed for each area. There is an urgent need to make interaction more centred around human needs and capabilities, and to consider the human environment in virtual environments and in other contextual information-processing activities. The overall goal is to make users more effective in their information or communication tasks by reducing learning times, speeding up performance, lowering error rates, facilitating retention, and increasing subjective satisfaction. Online communities is an area of rapid and dynamic growth with new kinds of interaction, behaviours, communication, and relationship to the world of users and information. Guidelines for basic user interface design need to be extended to accommodate these new technologies and interfaces to users. Fruitful lines of research investigation in all these areas are set out in this book.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Virtual Environments; title: Augmented Reality and Mobile Computing; title: Devices for Display and Interaction; title: Future Interfaces; title: Applications and Tools; title: Online Communities; title: Foundations for Interaction; title: Business/Academic/Research/Government; title: Invited Lectures.