The History of Human Computer Interaction
A detailed history of HCI including a timeline starting in 1945 ...
"Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how people design, implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how computers affect individuals, organizations, and society. This encompasses not only ease of use but also new interaction techniques for supporting user tasks, providing better access to information, and creating more powerful forms of communication. It involves input and output devices, interaction techniques, how information is presented and requested, how the computer's actions are controlled and monitored and all forms of help, documentation, and training. It also includes tools used to design, build, test, and evaluate user interfaces and the processes that developers follow when creating interfaces.
Users expect highly effective and easy-to-learn interfaces and developers now realize the crucial role the interface plays. Surveys show that over 50% of the design and programming effort on projects are devoted to the user interface portion. [Myers 92] Interface design is a mayor part of HCI because there are also well-known catastrophes that have resulted from not paying enough attention to the human-computer interface. For example, the complicated user interface of the Aegis tracking system was a contributing cause to the erroneous downing of an Iranian passenger plane, and the US Stark's inability to cope with Iraqi Exocet missiles was partly attributed to the human-computer interface [Neumann 91].
This paper takes a look at the development of HCI, starting from Bush's memex, mainly concentrating on the development of graphical interfaces and input devices." continued ... (Via Gerhard Erich Mischitz)
"Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how people design, implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how computers affect individuals, organizations, and society. This encompasses not only ease of use but also new interaction techniques for supporting user tasks, providing better access to information, and creating more powerful forms of communication. It involves input and output devices, interaction techniques, how information is presented and requested, how the computer's actions are controlled and monitored and all forms of help, documentation, and training. It also includes tools used to design, build, test, and evaluate user interfaces and the processes that developers follow when creating interfaces.
Users expect highly effective and easy-to-learn interfaces and developers now realize the crucial role the interface plays. Surveys show that over 50% of the design and programming effort on projects are devoted to the user interface portion. [Myers 92] Interface design is a mayor part of HCI because there are also well-known catastrophes that have resulted from not paying enough attention to the human-computer interface. For example, the complicated user interface of the Aegis tracking system was a contributing cause to the erroneous downing of an Iranian passenger plane, and the US Stark's inability to cope with Iraqi Exocet missiles was partly attributed to the human-computer interface [Neumann 91].
This paper takes a look at the development of HCI, starting from Bush's memex, mainly concentrating on the development of graphical interfaces and input devices." continued ... (Via Gerhard Erich Mischitz)
A lot of change in a short time.
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