Designing web sites and interfaces to optimize successful user interactions: Symposium overview

Abstract

Since the Web became widely available in the mid 1990s, it has come to be used by a range of people for many purposes. Effective user interactions are required for a Web site or product to accomplish its intended goals. Given the user-intensive nature of the Web and the many usability issues associated with performing tasks on the Web and with mobile devices, it is important for designers and researchers to understand issues that relate to how to optimize interfaces for the Web design and other systems involving human-computer interaction. This symposium is devoted to issues involved in the design of Web sites and interfaces to promote successful user interactions. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.