About this Book

The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is the first reference resource designed to meet the needs of researchers and scientists as well as students, business and marketing professionals, and interested non-experts. It allows the reader to explore what's going on inside leading research labs and technology corporations, enabling us to understand the products and processes shaping the world we live in. Expert-written articles are accompanied by lively sidebars and a popular culture database of more than 300 novels, television shows, and movies. Human-Computer Interaction--known as HCI--is a fast-growing field that draws upon several branches of social, behavioral, and information science, as well as medicine, computer science, and electrical engineering. It is the study of how we communicate with--and through--computers, robots, information systems, and the Internet.