Book Review: Experimental Human-Computer Interaction – A Practical Guide with Visual Examples

Assessment of the interaction that humans form with the system while fulfilling certain computer-based tasks and the improvement of the system resorting to such data are the foundations of human-computer interaction (HCI). To obtain usable data in these studies and to improve the system as a result, design and application processes in the research are of utmost importance. Thus, the book written by Purchase (2015), titled “Experimental Human-Computer Interaction - A Practical Guide with Visual Examples” and published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 in New York was reviewed. The author, who is an experienced HCI expert, studied several topics such as the visualization of dynamic graphics, multivariate network visualizations, human-centered experiments and application of experimental results in dynamic graphics plotting. The book is based on the course material that the author submitted in 2009. However, during the writing process, the author participated in several seminars and workshops and developed the book through infographics. The author wrote the book to teach operational principles of HCI experiments using infographics and to define the research area in these experiments. The book has a potential to contribute to researchers that plan a career in research sciences, undergraduate and graduate students and scholars that are interested in HCI.