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Designing with blends : conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction and software engineering / Manuel Imaz and David Benyon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Imaz, Manuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-computer interaction.
- Software engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- How recent research in cognitive science offers new ways to understand the interaction of people and computers and develops a new literacy for well-informed, sensitive software design.
- Contents:
- 1 Growing Up in the Digital Age 1
- Things Digital 2
- The Felt Sense of Thinking 5
- A Short History of Cognition 7
- Concepts of Software 10
- Human-Computer Interaction 13
- Framing the Problem 15
- 2 Cognition and the Body 19
- Cognitive Models 21
- Concepts and Categories 26
- Image Schemata 30
- Embodied Cognition 35
- 3 Metaphors and Blends 37
- Metaphor 37
- Mental Spaces 40
- Blends 43
- Metaphor or Blend? 48
- The Desktop Metaphor 50
- Metaphors and Figurative Language 54
- 4 Blends in Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering 57
- Types of Integration Networks 57
- Figurative Language in SE 61
- Figurative Language in HCI 66
- SE Examples of Blends 70
- 5 Software Engineering 77
- Entity-Relationship Models 82
- State-Transition Diagrams 85
- The Top-Down Method 86
- Data-Flow Diagrams 88
- The OO Paradigm 90
- A Basic Ontology for SE 98
- 6 Human-Computer Interaction 103
- Principles of Blends 106
- Actions in HCI 114
- Tasks in HCI 120
- Goals and Personae 123
- Future Interactions 130
- 7 Understanding Requirements 135
- Perspectives on Requirements 135
- Requirements in SE 144
- Use Cases 162
- 8 Designing with Blends 171
- Metaphor and Design 171
- Analysis 173
- Design 179
- Designing a Home Information Center 183
- 9 Reflections 193
- Emerging Views on HCI 194
- Personal Spaces 198
- Fluency in Conceptual Integration 201
- Critical Perspectives 204.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262256407
- 0262256401
- 1282096435
- 9781282096431
- 1429421088
- 9781429421089
- OCLC:
- 77564896
- Publisher Number:
- 9780262256407
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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