I used Google for this task as it is really all that I have been using for the past 1 1/2. My keywords were "human-computer interaction". I got 5,620,000 hits and the 1st hit was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction.
Using Copernic I got 36 hits by using 9 search engines for "human-computer interaction".
The main differences were the number of hits of course, plus Google gave me better results with using all words on the first page. Copernic gave me more credible results, apart from the fact that some sites appeared on both Google and Copernic. Copernic gave me % campatibility which is ok if you take notice of those types of things. By using Copernic I can narrow the results by using less or more search engines.
Copernic as most of the results were from universities and they are more credible sites to use when writing academic papers. I think so anyway.
Below are the first 5 hits I got in Google.
Below are the first 5 hits I got in Copernic.
BOOLEAN SEARCHING TASK
Here are my results using Boolean techniques on Google.
human-computer interaction = 5,630,000 results.
"human-computer interaction" = 10,100,000 results.
human-computer -interaction = 964,000 results (NOT).
human OR computer interaction = 37,400,000 results.
human interaction = 24,700,000 results.
computer interaction = 24,300,000 results.
Using Google Scholar I got 31,000 results using the keywords human-computer interfaces. It gave me a lot of good books and sites with the number of citations for each result. The citations help me determine whether to look at the result or not.
Using UniSA library, limiting search to electronic resources, I got 141 entries. Monash University library gave me 1031 entries as I did not use any limits.
ORGANISING SEARCH INFORMATION TASK
I used a program called EndNote to capture the following information. I was first introduced to EndNote last year through one of my subjects (cannot remember which one), it allows you to input a in-text citation in a word document while at the same time it creates a full reference for the bibliography or reference list at the end of the document.
Here are my best 3 sources that I found relating to human-computer interaction.
URL: http://www.hcibook.com/e3/
Author: Dix, A, Finlay, J, Abowd, GD & Beal, R
Institution: Pearson,
Screen Shot/Summary/Blurb: Much has changed since the first edition of Human-Computer Interaction was published. Ubiquitous computing and rich sensor-filled environments are finding their way out of the laboratory, not just into movies but also into our workplaces and homes. The computer has broken out of its plastic and glass bounds providing us with networked societies where personal computing devices from mobile phones to smart cards fill our pockets and electronic devices surround us at home and work. The web too has grown from a largely academic network into the hub of business and everyday lives. As the distinctions between the physical and the digital, and between work and leisure start to break down, human-computer interaction is also changing radically.
The excitement of these changes is captured in this new edition, which also looks forward to other emerging technologies. However, the book is firmly rooted in strong principles and models independent of the passing technologies of the day: these foundations will be the means by which today's students will understand tomorrow's technology.
The third edition of Human-Computer Interaction can be used for introductory and advanced courses on HCI, Interaction Design, Usability or Interactive Systems Design. It will also prove an invaluable reference for professionals wishing to design usable computing devices.
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URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V0D-4BJ7BGV-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=14de0d05a9c5f3dccb9f7f0c332995ed
Author: Timo Partala and Veikko Surakka
Institution: Interacting with Computers (Journal)
Screen Shot/Summary/Blurb: The present study investigated the psychophysiological effects of positive and negative affective interventions in human–computer interaction during and after the interventions. Eighteen subjects were exposed to pre-programmed mouse delays in an interactive problem-solving task. Following the mouse delays three types of conditions were used: positive or negative interventions given via speech synthesizer, and no intervention. Facial electromyographic responses were recorded from the zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii muscle sites. These muscles control smiling and frowning, respectively. Smiling activity was significantly higher during the positive than the other conditions. It was also significantly higher after the positive interventions than the no intervention condition. The frowning activity attenuated significantly more after the positive interventions than the no intervention condition. Following the positive interventions the users' problem solving performance was significantly better than after no intervention. In all, the results suggest that both types of affective intervention had beneficial effects over ignoring the user. The results suggest further that positive intervention may be especially useful.
EndNote is an easy to use program that can be accessed while using word through the toolbar at the top of the page. If you fill in every detail in EndNote you would have a very through reference in deed. It gives you many options to choose from about what type of reference you are recording e.g. journal article, magazine article or web page.
Evaluating the web task will be on the next post, so that must mean that I am nearly finished module 4 tasks, Yahoooo.
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