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Statistics and statistics from exercise, second part of input decoding, fixing look, adding more info.

Disclaimer:

Much of the contents is just 1:1 copied from the lecture slides, I filtered through them and copied what (I think) is important. It doesn’t cover all the information from the lectures.

Week 1: Introduction and course overview

Formal definition:

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:

• Single user (end user of program)
• Others
  • Local (friends, colleagues)
  • Remote (social networks, remote collaboration)

Computer:

• Machine running program
• Often distributed
• Many different form factors and capabilities

Interaction:

• User provides input
• Machine communicates result

User interfaces:

• Main point of contact between user and running program, the interaction part

Graphical user interfaces:

• Text input and output
• Buttons, menus, icons

Hardware is an integral part of the UI

HCI Process:

In a circle: Design → Prototype → Evaluation → ...