Human Comfort and Security of Information Systems

This primarily application oriented work presents the latest developments in the field. It covers all central issues for realizing the full benefits of the information society, by making access to and use of IT systems easier and more comfortable.

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Beyond the Final Frontier: Usability at Reuters.- The New Media Interface: a Case for Reappraisal.- Long Term Research on Intelligent Information Interfaces.- ETHICS: User led Requirements Analysis and Business Process Improvement.- Bridging Software Design and Usability Analysis through Task Modelling.- MAPI: MUSiC Assisted Process Improvement.- Usability Evaluation of Software Applications.- Are You Sitting Comfortably?.- Voice-based Dialogue in the Real World.- MASK: Multimedia Multimodal Service Kiosk.- Spoken Language Component of the MASK Kiosk.- Designing Co-operativity in Spoken Human-Machine Dialogues.- Usability Analysis of Spoken Dialogues for Automated Telephone Banking Services (OVID).- Hypermedia-based Telecooperation Support for Marketing Software Products.- GNOSIS Tool for Computer-based Training.- Information Navigation in Teaching with DATABOOK.- GeoSol: Decision Support Services in Monitoring Water Quality and Crisis Management.- User Support for Estimating the Passenger Flow in Airport Terminals.- DIADEM: A Method for User Interface Development.- Transferring Research Results from the Laboratory to the Market by Means of Intelligent Decision Support.- Coordination of Multiple Input Modes in User Interfaces.- Developing User Interfaces for Hypermedia Data Bases.- Achieving Comfort and Security in the Use of Software Systems.- OPX2 Intelligent Help: an Example of Intelligent Interfaces.- Interaction Objects for Explanation.- Haptic Interfaces for Improving Interaction in Virtual Environments.- Facial Interaction for Human Machine Interface.- A Comparison of Design Strategies for 3D Human Motions.- Authors' Index.