The GUI OOUI WAR: WINDOWS VS. OS/2
The Designer's Guide to Human Computer Interfaces
By Theo S. Mandel

"This book can be read by anyone who uses a PC. Read it--it will change the
way you think about your computer."
--Bob Orfali, Co-Author, Client/Server Programming with OS/2 2.1

In The GUI OOUI War: Windows vs. OS/2, the first comprehensive guide to the
topic of user interfaces, author Theo S. Mandel takes a close look at the
merits of each style of computer interface from the standpoint of the
user's psychology.

Applying the principles of software logic and cognitive psychology, the
author, a cognitive psychologist, defines the basic differences and
similarities between two classes of interface: the graphical user
interfaces found in Microsoft Windows and the object-oriented user
interface in IBM's OS/2.

The author, formerly a cognitive scientist at Skill Dynamics, an IBM
company, carefully analyzes and weighs the pros and cons of each approach,
with reference to successful and unsuccessful examples of interfaces in
popular consumer products (such as VCRs and washing-machines ).

The GUI OOUI War: Windows vs. OS/2 is one of 20 volumes in Van Nostrand
Reinhold's OS/2 series, the most extensive OS/2 library available from any
publisher.

Since its founding in 1948, Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR) has pioneered the
publication of high-quality engineering, technical and scientific
reference books. VNR's computer book group, founded in 1978, publishes an
extensive list of timely, high-level technical books for computer
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The GUI OOUI War: Windows vs. OS/2 -- 
The Designer's Guide to Human Computer Interfaces
By Theo S. Mandel, Ph.D
$29.95; paper; 352 pp.; 100 illus.
ISBN: 0-0442-01750-2

Van Nostrand Reinhold
115 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10003
212-254-3232,   fax 212-475-2548,   800-544-0550

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