Lecture Topics in HCI, by Saul Greenberg
Contents for: All Topics CPSC 481 SENG 609.05 Industrial Course

High Level Models of Human Behaviour

There are very few theories in HCI, and most tend to deal with low level phenomena such as selection accuracy and speed (Fitts Law), or ways of modeling human goals into low-level actions and predicting performance outcomes (GOMS). As an alternative, I provide students with two high-level cognitive models of human behaviour that help them understand how people interact with machines. These are Shneiderman's syntactic / semantic model, and Norman's stages of interaction.


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Last updated September 1997, by Saul Greenberg