… Thimbleby's approach to the material is stimulating and extremely varied. He brings in
many disciplines and many examples from diverse fields. Some of the examples are likely …

Mobile internet technologies, such as WAP, are important for pervasive, anytime, anywhere
computing. Although much progress has been made in terms of technological innovation, …

Number entry is ubiquitous: it is required in many fields including science, healthcare, education,
government, mathematics and finance. People entering numbers are to be expected to …

… Thimbleby describes a number of concepts and tools we can use to design, develop, and …
Instead, Thimbleby describes everything well, giving just enough technical detail to keep the …

Healthcare changes dramatically because of technological developments, from anesthetics
and antibiotics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. Future …

HCI methods and tools are often used cross-culturally before being tested for appropriateness
and validity. As new tools emerge, they must be cross-culturally validated to ensure that …

The Chinese Postman Problem has many applications, including robot exploration, and
analysing interactive system and Web site usability. This paper reviews the wide range of …

Open-source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so anyone
can study, modify, distribute, make and sell the design or the hardware based on that design. …

It is not possible to view a computer operating in the real world, including the possibility of
Trojan horse programs and computer viruses, as simply a finite realisation of a Turing machine…

First published in 1990, this book discusses the application of formal methods to the human-computer
interface. Formal methods-the attempt to provide methods that rigourously and …