LECTURE 1

Question 1

Adopted in the mid-1980’s as means of describing this new field of study.

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Human-computer Interaction

Question 2

commonly used changeably with terms such as “Man-machine interaction” (MMI), “computer and human interaction” (CHI), and “Human-machine interaction” (HMI)

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Human-computer Interaction

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the study of interactions between humans and complex technology in order to examine how the current input and output of technologies influence the interaction between users and interface.

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HCI

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Vannevar Bush publishes “As We May think” in the Atlantic Monthly.

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1945

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He was the US government director of the office of scientific research and a scientific adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During WW2,
he was charged with leading some 6000 American scientist in the application of science to warfare.

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Vannevar Bush

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He wrote “the summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading……”

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Bush

Question 7

Ivan Sutherland develops sketchpad.

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1962

Question 8

developed sketchpad in the early 1960’s as part of his PHD research and electrical engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Ivan Sutherland

Question 9

a graphic system that supported the manipulation of
geometric shapes and lines, or we call it objects on a display using a light pen

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Sketchpad

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Doughlas Engelbart invents computer mouse.

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1963

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Xerox star launched.

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1981

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First commercially released computer system with GUI.

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1981

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ACM SIGCHI

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1982

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most prestigious in the field of human computer interaction

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1982

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Card, Moran, Newell published “The Psychology of the HCI”

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1983

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Focuses on computers in the social societies.

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SIGSOC

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professor of computer science and cognitive psychology

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Newell

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Apple Macintosh launched.

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1984

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25th anniversary of “CHI”

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2007

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concerned with both the hardware and support of interactional techniques and technologies.

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Research into Interactional Hardware and Software

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Design and evaluation of hardware and software interfaces.

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Research into Interactional Hardware and Software

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Study of how users interact with computer system.

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Research Matching Model

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Concerned with providing theories and tools for modeling the knowledge a user possesses and brings to bear on a task.

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Research Matching Model

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refer to the algorithms and systems that facilitate the interaction between humans and computers.

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Research Matching Model

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Allowing them to perform tasks in the way that they wish.

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Research at the Task Level

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users perform specific tasks using computer systems.

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Research at the Task Level

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study of both, individuals involved in design and the design and development process.

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Research into Design and Development

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focuses on the creation and evaluation of user interfaces.

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Research into Design and Development

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impact that new systems have on organizations.

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Research into Organizational Impact

Question 30

The term can be used in two scenes: one to mean the study of the physical design in HCI; and two is to mean almost any research regarding any aspect of human interaction.

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Ergonomics

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Concerned with the development of new methods for producing software.

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Software Engineering

Question 32

mathematical formalisms have been used at some time to verify the structure and logic of computer programs.

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Mathematics

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study of mental faculties through the use of computational models.

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Artificial Intelligence

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study of computer systems for understanding and generating natural language.

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Computational Linguistics

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is concerned not only with the meanings of the natural language sentences, but also their meanings within the context of a conversation/dialogue.

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Pragmatics

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- it is defined as a collection of interacting and interdependent individuals with common goals and whose relationships are determined according to a certain structure.

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Organizational Psychology

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it is a collection of interwoven disciplines with aim to understand and explain the higher cognitive processes.

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Cognitive Science

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This is the scientific analysis of human mental processes and structures with the aim of understanding human behavior.

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Cognitive Psychology

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This is the systematic study of human interaction and its psychological basis

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Social Psychology

Question 40

concerned with the individual actor and how individuals act with respect to other actors, but what relevance has these two HCI

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Social Psychology

Question 41

it defines as the study of human society where the emphasis on generalizing about its structure.

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sociology

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Defines as the scientific study of human social behavior.

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Sociology