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2024 02 HCI 221 Lecture 1

Human computer interaction (HCI) involves designing and evaluating technology for human use. HCI focuses on understanding how people interact with technology and ensuring usability by accounting for human variability, limitations, and preferences. Computers are used widely in various applications like business, banking, education, healthcare and more. Good HCI design is important to create intuitive interfaces that allow users to easily accomplish their goals.

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2024 02 HCI 221 Lecture 1

Human computer interaction (HCI) involves designing and evaluating technology for human use. HCI focuses on understanding how people interact with technology and ensuring usability by accounting for human variability, limitations, and preferences. Computers are used widely in various applications like business, banking, education, healthcare and more. Good HCI design is important to create intuitive interfaces that allow users to easily accomplish their goals.

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Introduction to Human Computer

Interaction
Outline
• Human Computer Interaction - Definition
• Various Applications of Computer
• How people interact with Computers?
• Why HCI?
Human Computer Interaction
• 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.
Human Computer Interaction
● HCI focuses on understanding the
academics study of the way people interact
with technology
● Large part of HCI is about doing things and
making things – designs.
● It is also a study in understanding and
choosing how a technology is going to affect
the way people work.
Human

● Humans are the user.


● Humans have
tremendous
variability– young, old,
male, female, etc.
Human

• Users usually
– have lousy memory
– don’t always see everything
– get confused of too many things
– get tired and bored
– don’t pay attention always
– get easily distracted
Computer
• Computer is an electronic data processing device
which accepts and stores data input, processes
the data input, and generates the output in a
required format.
• Functionalities:
– Takes data as input
– Stores the data/instructions in its memory and use
them when required
– Processes the data and converts it into useful
information.
– Generated the output
– Controls all the above four steps
Mobile Desktop/Web
Applications Applications
Various Applications of Computers
• Business
• Banking
• Insurance
• Education
• Marketing
• Health Care
• Military
• Government
• Communication
Business
• A computer has high speed of calculation,
diligence, accuracy, reliability or versatility
which made it an integrated part in all
business organizations.
• Computer is used in business organizations
for:
– Payroll calculations
– Budgeting
– Sales analysis
– Financial forecasting
– Managing employees database
Banking
• Banks provide online accounting facility,
which includes current balances, deposits,
overdrafts, interest charges, shares and
trust records.
• ATM machines are making it even easier
for customers to deal with banks.
Insurance
• Insurance companies are keeping all records up-to-date
with the help of computers.
• The insurance companies, finance houses and stock
broking firms are widely using computers for their concerns.
• Insurance companies are maintaining a database of all
clients with information showing:
– Procedure to continue with policies
– Starting date of the policies
– Next due instalment of a policy
– Maturity date
– Interest due
– Survival benefits
– Bonus
Education
• The computer has provides a lot of facilities in the
education system,
– The computer provides tool in the education system
known as CBE (Computer Based Education)
– CBE involves control, delivery, and evaluation of
learning
– The computer education is rapidly increasing the
graph of number of computer students.
– There are number of methods in which educational
institutions can use computer to educate the students
– It is used to prepare a database about performance of
a student and analysis is carried out on this basis.
Marketing
• In marketing, uses of computer are
following:
– Advertising
– At home shopping
Health Care
• Some major fields of health care in which
computers are used are:
– Diagnostic System – computers are used to
collect data and identify cause of illness
– Lab diagnostic system – all tests can be done
and reports are prepared by computer.
– Patient Monitoring system – these are used to
check patient’s sign for abnormality such as in
cardiac arrest, ECG etc
– Pharma Information System – computer checks
drug labels, expiry dates, harmful drug’s side effect
etc.
Engineering Design
• One major area is CAD (Computer Aided Design) that provides
creation and modification of images.
• Some major fields are:
– Structural Engineering – requires stress and strain analysis for
design of ships, buildings, budgets and airplanes
– Industrial Engineering – computers deal with the design,
implementation and improvement of integrated systems of
people, materials and equipments.
– Architectural engineering – computers help in planning towns,
designing building, determining a range of buildings on a site
using both 2D and 3D drawings.
Military
• Computers are largely used in defence,
modern tanks, missiles, weapons etc.
• Military also employs computerised
systems.
Communication
• Communication means to convey
message, an idea, a picture or speech that
is received and understood clearly and
correctly by the person for whom it is
meant for.
• Some main areas in this category are:
– Email
– Chatting
– Video conferencing
Government
• Computers play an important role in
government.
• Some major fields in this category are:
– Budgets
– Sales tax department
– Income tax department
– Computerization of voters list
– Computerization of driving licensing system
– Weather forecasting
How people interact with computers?
Why HCI?

1. Typical Frustrations
– Can’t figure out how to do simple things
– Many not frequent use functions
– Many hidden functions
– Operations outcome not visible
2. Additional Context Limitations
– Humans/users have different context
limitations in terms of age, gender etc.
Why HCI?
3. Good UI Design is very important
• Examples of bad UI are easy
– Try to find examples of good UI
• Good UI (very subjective):
– Easy, natural & engaging interaction
– Users can carry out their required tasks
– Accounts for human limitations
• Usefulness is often context-dependent.

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