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About the authors xi
I About the authors
The authors are all senior academics with a background in teaching, researching,
and consulting in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Having worked
together on two other successful text books, they bring considerable experience in
curriculum development, using a variety of media for distance learning as well as
face-to-face teaching. They have considerable knowledge of creating learning texts
and websites that motivate and support learning for a range of students.
All three authors are specialists in interaction design and human-computer in-
teraction (HCI). In addition they bring skills from other discipline~. Yvonne
Rogers is a cognitive scientist, Helen Sharp is a software engineer, and Jenny
Preece works in information systems. Their complementary knowledge and skills
enable them to cover the breadth of concepts in interaction design and HCI to pro-
duce an interdisciplinary text and website. They have collaborated closely, sup-
porting and commenting upon each other's work to produce a high degree of
integration of ideas with one voice. They have shared everything from initial con-
cepts, through writing, design and production.
