Question

1: [50] Referring to Myers's article, there is a quote from Stu Card on page 52.This represents 1998’s reality and vision for HCI research. Do you think that this vision explains innovation and research in HCI 1998-2017? Research this question and present your research in 1-2 pages of single-spaced paragraphs.

Answer 1

Computers utilization had always very interesting question.the methods by which human has been interacting with computers has travelled a long way.the journey still continues and new designs with different technologies and systems appear more and more every day and the research in this area has been growing very fast in the last few decades.the growth in human computer interaction field has not only been in quality of interaction ,it has also experienced different branching in its history.instead of designing regular interfaces ,the different research branches have had different focus on the concept of multimodality rather than unimodality,intelligent adaptive interfaces rather than command/action based ones and finally active rather than passive interfaces

Based on stu card the advantages made in last decade in HCI have almost made it impossible to realize which concepts is fiction and which is and can be real.the trust in research and the constant twists in marketing cause the new technology to become available to everyone in no time.however not all existing technologies are accessible and or affordable by public.

HCI design should consider many aspects of human behaviour and needs to be useful.the complexity of the degree of the involvement of a human in interaction with a machine is sometimes invisible compared to the simplicity of the interaction method itself.the existing interfaces differ in the degree of complexity both because of degree of functionality/usability and the financial and economical aspect of the machine in market. for instance an electrical kettle nned not to be sophisticated in interfaces since its only functionality is to heat the water and it would not be cost effective so to have an interface more than a thermostactic on and off switch .therefore in design of HCI, the degree of activity that involves a user with a machine should be thoroughly thought.the user activity has three levels 1.physical 2.cognitive 3.affective