The HCI Handbook was edited by Drs. Julie Jacko and Andrew Sears with the assistance of a prestigious international advisory board; published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in 2003 (ISBN 0-8058-4468-6, pbk.)
This massive book contains 64 chapters, plus an Introduction section and a Conclusion section; the book is 1277 pages in the paperback edition. The chapters are organized into six parts, each containing its own introduction: Part I Humans in Human-Computer Interaction; Part II Computers in Human-Computer Interaction; Part III Human-Computer Interaction; Part IV Application Domains; Part V The Development Process; Part VI Managing Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Issues. The book also has a reference web site (see the enclosure) that contains chapter outlines, updates, and also graphics to supplement some of the chapters, plus an expanded keyword index.
My favorite chapters were the "Introduction: Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction: from Memex to Bluetooth and Beyond" by Richard Pew; "Mental Models" by Gerrit van der Veer and Maria Melguizo; "Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction by Scott Brave and Clifford Ness; "Cognitive Architecture" by Michael Byrne; "Documentation: Not Yet Implemented, But Coming Soon!" by Brad Mehlenbacher; "Online Communities: Focusing on Sociability and Usability" by Jenny Preece and Diane Maloney-Krichmar: "A Cognitive Systems Engineering Approach to the Design of Decision-Support Systems" by Phillip Smith and Norman Geddes; and "The World Wide Web" by Jonathan Lazar. Readers will certainly make other choices, depending upon their special interests (mine lean toward cognitive psychology and the Web). The reading choices are varied and valuable, with a multitude of ideas, methods, findings, and resources to explore.
The subtitle of the HCI Handbook is "Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications." The editors and authors do a fine job fulfilling the goal of providing that kind of coverage for the broad field of HCI. In the Preface the editors state that "Over the last two decades, HCI emerged as a major discipline in computing, and was quickly energized by substantial contributions from other fields, such as engineering, psychology, education, and graphic design.... HCI now has a home in every application, environment, and device, and is routinely used as a tool for inclusion. Therefore, this Handbook should be of tremendous value to practioners, researchers, student, and academicians, regardless of enterprise, because HCI, like computing itself, is now ubiquitous" (p. xvii).
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