Textbook of Usability

28 entries

People

A B C F G H K L M N P R S T U V W

A

• Christopher Alexander : Architect and theorist; author of "A Pattern Language"

B

• Donald Broadbent : Cognitive psychologist; author of the filter theory of attention

C

• Stuart Card : Co-author of "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction"; co-creator of the Model Human Processor and GOMS
• William Cleveland : Statistician; co-author of the Cleveland-McGill hierarchy of graphical perception
• Nelson Cowan : Memory researcher; revised the working-memory limit downward to about four chunks

F

• Paul Fitts : Aviation psychologist; formulated Fitts's Law of pointing movements

G

• Atul Gawande : Surgeon and writer; author of "The Checklist Manifesto"

H

• William E. Hick : Experimental psychologist; gave his name to Hick's Law of choice reaction time

K

• Daniel Kahneman : Psychologist; author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow"; Nobel laureate in Economics
• Steve Krug : Usability consultant; author of "Don't Make Me Think"

L

• Nancy Leveson : Computer scientist; author of "Safeware" and the canonical Therac-25 case study

M

• I. Scott MacKenzie : HCI researcher; standardised the modern formulation of Fitts's Law
• George A. Miller : Cognitive psychologist; author of "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"
• Thomas Moran : Co-author of "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction"; co-creator of GOMS and KLM

N

• Allen Newell : Cognitive scientist; co-author of "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction" and "Unified Theories of Cognition"
• Jakob Nielsen : Co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group; author of the ten usability heuristics
• Donald Norman : Cognitive scientist; coined "user experience"; co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group

P

• Andrea Palladio : Italian Renaissance architect; author of "The Four Books of Architecture"

R

• James Reason : Psychologist; author of the Swiss cheese model of accident causation

S

• Ben Shneiderman : Computer scientist; author of the Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
• Herbert Simon : Polymath; coined "satisficing" and "bounded rationality"; author of "The Sciences of the Artificial"
• John Sweller : Educational psychologist; founder of cognitive load theory

T

• Anne Treisman : Cognitive psychologist; author of feature integration theory
• Edward Tufte : Statistician; author of "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
• Amos Tversky : Cognitive psychologist; co-author with Kahneman of the heuristics-and-biases programme

U

• Roger Ulrich : Environmental psychologist; pioneer of evidence-based healthcare design

V

• Vitruvius : Roman architect; author of "De Architectura", the oldest surviving treatise on design

W

• Colin Ware : Author of "Information Visualization, Perception for Design"