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Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving
Developing Useful and Usable Software
- 1st Edition - November 3, 2003
- Author: Barbara Mirel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 8 6 0 - 8 3 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 0 8 9 5 - 5
Software for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals, but when actually put to use it often disappoints and even frustrates users.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSoftware for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals, but when actually put to use it often disappoints and even frustrates users. This software rarely follows the user's own work methods, nor does it give people the degree of control and choice that they truly need.This book presents a groundbreaking approach to interaction design for complex problem solving applications. The author uses her vast field experience to present a new way of looking at the whole process, and treats complex problem solving software and web applications as a distinct class with its own set of usefulness demands and design criteria. This approach highlights integrated interactions rather than discrete actions, clearly defines what makes problem solving complex, and explores strategies for analyzing, modeling, and designing for exploratory inquiries.
·In depth case studies ranging from IT troubleshooting to marketing analysis to risk assessments in healthcare show exactly where and what goes wrong in real world activities and how to improve them.·Presents a system and framework for analyzing complex work and takes the mystery out of eliciting patterns of work and their meanings.·Offers new perspectives for support and new design strategies for building the right models into programs so that they effectively address users' dynamic work. ·Allows designers to turn findings into useful designs for problems that require users to create new knowledge but with no one right answer and with many methods of reaching solutions.
Software and user interface designers, usability specialists, user experience analysts, interaction designers, software/systems engineers
PrefaceIntroductionPart One - Understanding the Work1 What Makes Complex Problem Solving Complex?2 Usefulness: Focusing on Inquiry Patterns, Task Landscapes, and Core Activities3 Filling in the Gaps: Integrating Usefulness Into User-Centered DesignPart Two - Solving Problems in Technical, Social, and Co-emergent Systems4 Keeping the System Up and Running5 Getting IT Right6 Criteria, Constraints, and Choices for Optimizing the Mix7 Examining Design Strategies and Choices for Optimizing the Mix8 Decision-Making in Complex Socio-Technical Systems of Patient Care9 Designing for Usefulness Across CasesPart Three - Thinking Strategically10 Next Steps: Politics and Positioning of UsefulnessAppendix A
- No. of pages: 395
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 3, 2003
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9781558608313
- eBook ISBN: 9780080508955
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Barbara Mirel
Barbara Mirel is a visiting associate professor and research investigator at the University of Michigan where she teaches information visualization. Recently she has worked as a senior manager of human factors at a data visualization software company, a Member of the Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies, and Director of User Experience at Scient Corp. With teammates, she holds a patent for Visual Discovery design. Barbara is the recipient of numerous research grants for usability studies and has worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies across the country.
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USARead Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving on ScienceDirect