INTRO TO HCI

• Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.
• HCI is the study and the practice of usability.
• process: design, evaluation, and implementation
• on: interactive computing systems for human use
• plus: the study of major phenomena surrounding them
• What year did Vannevar Bush publish "As We May Think" in The Atlantic Monthly?

  1945
• Who published “As We May Think”?

  Vannevar Bush
• What year did Ivan Sutherland develop Sketchpad?

  1962
• Who developed Sketchpad?

  Ivan Sutherland
• What year did Douglas Engelbart invent the computer mouse?

  1963
• Who invented the computer mouse?

  Douglas Engelbart
• What year did Xerol Star launch?

  1981
• The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) was formed what year?

  1982
• 1983: Card, Moran, and Newell publish The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
• The Macintosh was introduced in the 1984 TV commercial, which was an allusion to Orwell's novel of the same name.
• 2007: 25th Anniversary of CHI the SIGCHI annual conference
• Calculating Clock: A 6 digit machine that can add and subtract while a bell indicates an overflow.
• When did Wilhelm Schickard invent the Calculating Clock?

  1623
• Who invented the Calculating Clock?

  Wilhelm Schickard
• Stepped Reckoner: It can multiply with operands of up to 5 to 12 digits. User can crank for each unit in each digit.
• When did Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz design the Stepped Reckoner?

  1674
• Who designed the Stepped Reckoner?

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Arithmometer, the first mass-produced calculator; performed multiplication and division; also the most reliable calculator yet; continue to be sold for about 90 years.
• When did Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar invent the Arithmometer?

  1820
• Who invented the Arithmometer?

  Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
• What is the first printing desk calculator?

  Comptograph
• When did Dorr Felt invent and patent the Comptograph?

  1889
• Who invented and patented the Comptograph?

  Dorr Felt
• 1935: The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) introduces the IBM 601 punch card machine capable of 1 multiplication per second; 1500 were made.
• In 1935, what was introduced by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)?

  IBM 601
• Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer: It weighed 30 tons, occupied 1000 sq ft of floor, used 140 KW of electricity, and had 17,468 vacuum tubes.
• When did Mauchy & Eckert develop the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for ballistics?

  1945
• Who developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for ballistics?

  Mauchy and Eckert
• Who postulated Memex Device?

  Vannevar Bush
• Memex Device

  • stores all records, articles and communications
  • items received by indexing, keywords, cross-references (now called hyperlinks)
  • envisioned as microfilm, not computer
  • interactive and non-linear components are key
• Who postulated the Man-Computer Symbiosis?

  Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider
• Man-Computer Symbiosis: Couple of human brains and computing machines tightly to revolutionize information handling
• When did Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider postulate the Man-computer Symbiosis?

  1960
• The term Sketchpad was coined by Ben Shneiderman.
• HCI's First User Study

  A comparative evaluation of:

  • Mouse
  • Joystick
  • Lightpen
  • Grafacon
  • Knee-Controlled Lever