This Book serves as a foundation to the field of HCI. It covers the historical background, contributing disciplines, essential concepts and theories within the domain. The book also delves into human functionalities and characteristics relevant to interaction, including sensory perception, attention and memory, language and communication, emotions, decision-making, as well as mental models, human error and human actions.

Additionally, it explores the evolution of HCI design approaches and the role of social and organizational psychology in HCI, it discusses the key HCI concept of user acceptance of interactive technologies, and addresses societal aspects such as ethics, privacy and trust.

It contains 14 chapters, written by a total of 25 authors, with 73 figures, 20 tables and 2,789 references for documenting and providing supporting data to the presented and discussed information.