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From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson)
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: wanted: human factors of terminal design
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 13:31:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 13:31:44 1985
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Summary: 


I just took a short course on Man-Machine Interfaces from the
Continuing Education Institute.  A large portion of the course
concerned itself with visual presentation of information on
terminals.  There was nothing on the design of a terminal from
the perspective of the hardware designer per se, but there was
a lot of information that would assist a person in choosing
among terminals for some particular project.

In general, I liked the course and would recommend it to
others.  Data poisoning overcame me at some points and the
organization of material could have been improved.  It
presented material on:
	
	Human Performance
	How to study human-computer interaction
	Human Factors of Interfaces
	Methodology for creating interfaces
	Guidelines
	techniques, interaction tasks and devices
	visual presentation
	software tools

Richard Pew and Jim Foley were the instructors.  Pew was a
better lecturer; Foley had more information (perhaps, too
much).  Both were very competent and experienced.
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