Tag Archives: human-computer interaction

Getting your hands on Apple’s iPhone

Posted on November 8, 2007 by stalker

Another Apple marketing frenzy has led to the UK bracing itself for the launch of the iPhone tomorrow. The Carphone Warehouse is expecting large queues and Scotland Yard are warning customers to hide their new handsets so that they don’t … Continue reading →

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Checklists

Posted on November 6, 2007 by stalker

[pdf] Designing web usability [pdf] Ensuring web accessibility [pdf] Using software for accessibility and usability [pdf] Usability tools and techniques [pdf] Measuring and increasing website return on investment (Stalker-Firth, R., July 2003)

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Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me

Posted on October 26, 2007 by stalker

Like every self-respecting human-computer interaction (HCI) lecturer, I introduce task analysis or the technique of analysing how people perform a task or job, to my students a couple of weeks into a given course. Each time I am aware that … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Science for IT Security

Posted on August 29, 2007 by stalker

Humans are involved in 80-90% of IT security system breaches. We have the technological capacity to keep our software systems secure with but we cannot control the way people use IT. As the complexity of IT systems increase, designers must … Continue reading →

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Who ordered pizza?

Posted on July 27, 2007 by stalker

In the above picture a newbie gamer has organised a telephone for his Sim so that it can order pizza. Unfortunately, in the series of pictures which follows, the delivery girl arrives too late and the Grim Reaper delivers the … Continue reading →

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