INTRO TO HCI

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  • 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