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Human Computer Interaction: Comsats University Islambad, Wah Campus

The document discusses human cognition and interaction. It covers three key topics: 1) Human information systems have three components - input/output channels, memory, and processing. The main human senses are vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. 2) Vision is the primary human sense and involves perception of light, formation of images, and interpretation. The eye detects light and forms upside-down images. 3) Hearing perceives sound waves through the outer, middle, and inner ear. It provides information on pitch, loudness, direction and more.

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Human Computer Interaction: Comsats University Islambad, Wah Campus

The document discusses human cognition and interaction. It covers three key topics: 1) Human information systems have three components - input/output channels, memory, and processing. The main human senses are vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. 2) Vision is the primary human sense and involves perception of light, formation of images, and interpretation. The eye detects light and forms upside-down images. 3) Hearing perceives sound waves through the outer, middle, and inner ear. It provides information on pitch, loudness, direction and more.

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Lecture 2

Human Computer Interaction


COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMBAD, WAH CAMPUS
In the last lecture
Significance of HCI
Truths about computers
Feature shock
Human computer nature
Software Apartheid

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In today’s lecture

Humans
Human psychology
Human Information System
Human Senses and I/O channels

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Human Cognitive Psychology
User as an information system
Working of information system
◦Information comes in,
◦stored
◦processed
◦passes out

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Human Information System

Three components of human information system


◦Input-output
◦Memory
◦processing

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Input/output

◦Vision
◦Auditory
◦Haptic
◦Movement

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Memory

◦Short term
◦Long term
◦Sensory

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Processing

◦Reasoning
◦Problem solving
◦Learning
◦Mistakes

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Input-Output Channels

Means of interaction with the outside world


User’s output -> Computer’s input
Computer’s output -> User’s input

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Human Input Channels

Input Senses
◦Sight
◦Hearing
◦Touch
◦Smell
◦Taste

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Human Output Channels
Output Effectors
◦Limbs
◦Finger
◦Eyes
◦Head
◦Vocal system

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Human Eye (Sight)

Mechanism of transforming received light into electric


energy through receptors
Detects light reflected from the real world objects
Forms an upside down image on retina

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Human Visual Perception

Primary source of information


Stages of perception
◦Reception
◦Interpretation/perception

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Visual Reception

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Visual Perception

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Notion of Visual Perception
Size and depth
◦Visual angle
◦Visual acuity
◦Overlapping
Brightness and color
◦Luminance
◦Visual Acuity increases with luminance
◦Hue, intensity, saturation
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Limitations of Visual Processing

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Limitations ….

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Limitations ….

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Optical Center Illusions

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Optical Illusions…

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Optical Illusions…

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Textual Vision

Reading
Stages of reading
◦Perceiving visual patterns
◦Decoding
◦Syntactic and Semantic analysis
◦Negative vs. Positive contrast

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Human Auditory System
Sense of Hearing
Perceives sound waves
◦ Distance
◦ Direction
◦ Objects
Sections of ear
◦ Outer ear (protects inner parts and amplifies sound)
◦ Middle ear (transmit sounds)
◦ Inner ear (causes impulses in auditory nerve)
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Sound Processing in Ears
Changes or vibrations in air pressure
Characteristics of sound
◦Pitch
◦Loudness
◦Timber
Filtering of sound

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Haptic
Touch
Works with stimulus received through the skin
Vital sense for impaired persons
Provides vital information about the surrounding
environment
Used in virtual reality systems
Kinesthesis: awareness of the position of the body and
limbs
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In the Next Lecture

Human Memory

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