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?