Behavior: Basic Psychology of the User
This chapter examines what are described as user behavioral characteristics. These are characteristics that are related to perception in broad terms. The chapter starts by defining some behavioral terms and concepts that are used in this and subsequent ch
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Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems What System Designers Need to Know about People
Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems
Frank E. Ritter Gordon D. Baxter Elizabeth F. Churchill •
Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems What System Designers Need to Know about People
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Frank E. Ritter College of IST The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA USA
Elizabeth F. Churchill eBay Research Labs eBay Inc. San Jose, CA USA
Gordon D. Baxter School of Computer Science University of St Andrews St Andrews, Fife UK
ISBN 978-1-4471-5133-3 ISBN 978-1-4471-5134-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5134-0 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
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Foreword
Our core Masters in Software Engineering course at the University of Southern California is a 2-semester course in which students form into about 15–20 teams of six people to define, design, develop, and deploy working software systems for clients in the local South Los Angeles community. The clients range from IT startups, neighborhood small businesses, local government and local community service organizations, to USC doctor
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