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Introduction to Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) Design

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Four criteria for evaluating an HCI design—efficiency, learnability, user satisfaction, and utility—are described. This is followed by a description of four HCI design goals—know the user, prevent user errors, optimize user abilities, and be consistent—and a brief description of HCI design steps.

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Voorhees, D.P. (2020). Introduction to Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) Design. In: Guide to Efficient Software Design. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28501-2_17

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