One Step Ahead: Writing for the Internet (One Step Ahead Series)
By Jane Dorner * Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages: 128
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198662858
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780198662853
* Binding: Paperback

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Extending Sutcliffe's views on the design process to more complex interfaces that have evolved in recent years, this book:
*introduces the background to multisensory user interfaces and surveys the design issues and previous HCI research in these areas;
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*describes elaborations of Norman's models of action for multimedia and VR, relates these models to the ICS cognitive model, and explains how the models can be applied to predict the design features necessary for successful interaction;
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Watching Iain Softley's motley, jewel-toned adaptation of Inkheart, the best-selling 2003 young-adult novel by Cornelia Funke, I had the distinct sensation of being a young bookworm again, falling into a world as vividly real as it is impossible. In Funke's universe — given voice in a screenplay by fantasy-friendly playwright David Lindsay-Abaire—a literature lover named Mo (Brendan Fraser) possesses a dangerous talent for bringing characters from books to life when he reads aloud. The downside? When a fictional figure comes alive, a real person must disappear into the book's pages.

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Despite the advent of the Microsoft .NET Framework, COM is still a valuable tool for programmers in Microsoft Windows®, and this book explains how and where COM fits into the .NET world.

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