(Ebook) Designing Usable Electronic Text: Ergonomic Aspects of Human Information Usage by Andrew Dillon ISBN 9780203481738, 9780203789971, 9780748401123, 9780748401130, 0203481739, 0203789970, 0748401121, 074840113X

(Ebook) Designing Usable Electronic Text: Ergonomic Aspects of Human Information Usage by Andrew Dillon ISBN 9780203481738, 9780203789971, 9780748401123, 9780748401130, 0203481739, 0203789970, 0748401121, 074840113X

In this book, Dillon examines the issues involved in designing usable electronic documents from the perspective of the designer. It examines the human issues underlying information usage and emphasizes the issue of usability as the main problem in the electronic medium's failure to gain mass acceptance. In an attempt to provide a relevant description of the reading process that supports a more informed view of the issues, a series of studies examining readers and their views, as well as uses, of texts is reported. The results lead to the proposal of a user-centred framework that provides a broad qualitative model of the important issues for designers to consider when developing an electronic document.

Designing Usable Electronic Text focuses attention on aspects that are central to usability, and concludes with an analysis of the likely uses of such a framework and the realistic potential for electronic documents.