INTERACTION DESIGN: beyond human-computer interaction, 3rd Edition

About the Authors

The authors are senior academics with a background in teaching, researching, and consulting in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Having worked together on two other successful text books, they bring considerable experience in curriculum development, using a variety of media for distance learning as well as face-to-face teaching. They have considerable knowledge of creating learning texts and websites that motivate and support learning for a range of students. All three are specialists in interaction design and human–computer interaction (HCI). In addition they bring skills from other disciplines. Yvonne Rogers is a cognitive scientist, Helen Sharp is a software engineer, and Jenny Preece works in information systems. Their complementary knowledge and skills enable them to cover the breadth of concepts in interaction design and HCI to produce an interdisciplinary text and website.

Yvonne Rogers is a Professor of Human–Computer Interaction in the Computing Department at the Open University, where she directs the Pervasive Interaction Lab. From 2003 to 2006 she had a joint position in the School of Informatics and Information Science at Indiana University (US). Prior to that she was a professor in the former School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex University. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford, Apple, Queensland University, and UCSD. Her research focuses on augmenting and extending everyday learning and work activities with ...