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Question 1

Why HCI?

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Computers and devices should be design with users in mind

System Designers should know users’ task and convert it into executable system

Question 2

Mistaken view for its not easy to design consistent and robust systems.

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Designer - People - User

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Cannot be plugged in at the last minute
Developed integrally
Not just a pretty face
Support tasks and forgive careless mistakes

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Interface

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EC Directive 90/270/EEC rules when designing, selecting, commissioning or modifying software:

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Suitable for the task
Easy to use and where appropriate adaptable to the user’s knowledge and appearance
Provides feedback on performance
Displays information in a format and at a pace that is adapted to the user
Conforms the principles of software ergonomics

Question 5

HCI started in the

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Early 1980s

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HCI on its early years wasn’t

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wasn’t particularly important

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HCI was also knwn as

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Ergonomics (UK)
Human Factors (NA)
Man-Machine Interaction

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HCI disciplines are concerned with

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user’s performance

Question 9

Design + Implementation + Evaluation == Interactive Systems

In the context of

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User’s task and work

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Original and abiding technical focus of HCI was and is

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USABILITY

Question 11

Three parts of HCI

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User - who is trying to get the job done using tech
Computer - any tech
Interaction - communication between the both

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Who involved in HCI?

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Psychology and Cognitive Science
	Ergonomics
	Sociology
	Computer Science and Engineering
	Business
	Graphic Design
	Technical Writing
	And many more
	-- involve the users

Question 13

What is the underlying principle of HCI?

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People use computers to accomplish work

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4 major concerns of HCI

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People
Computer
Task
Usability (system must support the user’s task)

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What real tasks are>

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Understanding of tasks at the moment

Study the user’s current task

Question 16

What are the three use words?

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Useful - accomplish what is required
Usable - do it easily and naturally without danger of error, etc.
Used - make people want to use it

Question 17

Another important concerns of HCI?

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Motivation
Enjoyment
Experience

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Goal of interaction design is to

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Reduce the negative aspects of the user epxerience while enhancing the positive ones

Question 19

developing interactive products that are usable is being talked about

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Interaction Design

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It is important to take into account about HCI to

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where it is going to be used

who is going to use it

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Factors to consider on HCI

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Who is going to be using them
How they are going to be used
Where they are going to be used
Understand the kind of activities people are doing when interacting with the products

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Thinking about the TYPES of INTERFACES and INTERACTIVE devices that are available

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multitouch displays
speech-based systems
handheld devices
large interactive displays
etc

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Think of ways how users can interact with a system

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use of menus
commands
forms
icons
gestures
etc.

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Think of more innovative artifacts using novel materials

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e-textiles

wearables

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Principles in Understanding Users

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• Taking into account what people are good and bad at
  
  • Considering what might help people with the way they current do things
  • Thinking through what might provide quality user experiences
  • Listening to what people want and getting them involved in the design
  • Using tried and tested user-based techniques during the design process

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It is about designing interactive products to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives

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Interaction Design

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It is about creating user experiences that enhance and augment the way people work, communicate and interact

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Interaction Design

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Interaction Design covers the ff aspects:

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UI Design
Software dsign
user-centered design
product design
web design
experience design
interactive system design

Question 29

One cannot design a user experience only design for a user experience

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true

Question 30

some important aspects of UX

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Usability
	Functionality
	Aesthetics
	Content
	Look and feel
	Sensual and emotional appeal

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another wide reachibg aspects

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fun
health
social capital
cultural identity

Question 32

Four core threads

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Sensual thread
emotional thread
compositional thread
spatio-temporal thread

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concerned with our sensory engagement with a situation

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sensual thread

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common examples of emotions that spring to mind are sorrow, anger joy and happiness

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emotional thread

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concerned with the narrative part of an experience, as it unfolds, and the way a person makes sense of it

internal thinking we do during our experience

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compositional thread

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refers to the space and time in which our experience take place and theiir effect upon those experiences

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spatio-temporal thread

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threads meant as ideas to help users

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false (designers)