Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction

Editor/Author: Editor: Bainbridge, William Sims
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group

ISBN: 978-0-9743091-2-5
Category: technology
Image Count: 61
Book Status: Available

Expert-written articles explore what's going on inside leading research labs and technology corporations, and are accompanied by lively sidebars and a popular culture database of novels, television shows, and movies.

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• Berkshire Publishing Collection

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• This is the first science encyclopedia produced by Berkshire Publishing Group, which usually produces reference works in the social sciences. Although sparsely illustrated with only a few black-and-white illustrations, the 187 entries with numerous subentries reflect the publisher's social science sensibilities. They often contain charts or tables, average four pages in length, always include a section of further readings, and are clearly written to be accessible to a younger audience. Resembling a historical textbook on the appearance of computers in popular culture rather than a reference work, this set competes with Claude Ghaoui's Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (forthcoming) and to update more traditional works such as Julie Jacko and Andrew Sears's The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook (CH, Apr'03) and Martin Helander's Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (1988). Already dated, like most computer-related reference works, are many entries and Appendix 3, "HCI in Popular Culture," which contains bibliographic abstracts for books, movies, music, etc., relating to computers.

  L. A. Beinhoff
  Sauk Valley Community College