Week 2 / First Lecture: Interaction Design and HCI [Mann Ee]

Lecturer : Miss Edina
Date : 25 Oct. 2011

Interaction design is....

•  about creating interventions in often complex situations using technology of many kinds including PC software, the web and physical devices. 

  "Interaction design as a design discipline"

•  designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives.   –Sharp, Rogers and Preece (2011)

  "Interaction design as an extension of HCI"

• The design of spaces for human communication and interaction. –Winograd (1997)

HCI is an acronym which stands for Human Computer Interaction

Human–computer Interaction (HCI) is the study,planning and design of the interaction between users and computers. .HCI is also sometimes referred to as man–machine interaction(MMI) or computer–human interaction(CHI). -wikipedia
HCI is concerned with understanding how people make use of devices and systems that incorporate or embed computation, and how such devices and systems can be more useful and more usable. -Carroll (2003)

A timeline that showcase the past, present and future of Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
Past : 
1943 ENiac(1st computer) 
1964 The First Mouse
1981 Xerox star
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0
1989 Nintendo gameboy
1994 - Sony playstation1
1995 Windows 95
Present : PS3, ipad, iphone , macbook, waterproof keyboard, microsoft surface..

Future : ???

HCI and Interaction Design
How Interaction Design relates to Human-Computer Interaction and other fields??