Week 1- HCI and Interactive Design

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What is exactly HCI? This had confuse me about 1 week. I just back from MI Field Trip - Kuala Selangor Nature Park, now only I started to research what exactly is HCI. I choose to google it.

Based on the result in Google and the week 2 Interaction Studies lecture class, I am confirm HCI = Human-Computer Interaction. Hahaha xD

Visual Data from http://www.deepamehta.de/docs/hci.html

Human-Computer Interaction is the study, planning, evaluation, implementation and design of how people interact with computers. Do not confuse, HCI are simply mean the interactive between human and computer through user interface, such as software and hardware. For example, the characters or objects displayed by software and shown in hardware such as monitor. The example of hardware are the mouse and keyboard which allow human to control and access computer, the monitor for human to view data, and other user interaction with large scale computerized systems such as spacecraft, cockpits, or microwave ovens. It allow human to interactive with others through computer and technology. Human nowadays are keep research on HCI. The goals of Human-Interaction research are to improve interaction between human and computer, and communication and cooperation between humans.

Interactive Design, is design for human use. It is the study of behaviour and structure of interactive system. Designers need to design meaningful relationship between the people and the product, and the service that they use. It appear on out daily life, such as coffee machine, cell phone, computer, ATM machine, photocopier machine and other product that allow human to interact with. Many product require interaction to complete certain task, thus we need a good interactive design to help human can easier, more effective, enjoy to complete certain task using the product.

A Good design is meant easy to learn, effective to use, and provide an enjoyable user experience. A Bad design is meant hard to learn, not effective to use, and always provide confusion and frustration to whom who use it.

here has a link that explain about interactive studies using his own way, can try to read at HERE.

visual data from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interaction-Design-Disciplines.png

information source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction

http://old.sigchi.org/cdg/cdg2.html

http://www.deepamehta.de/docs/hci.html

http://hci.sapp.org/lectures/verplank/interaction/

Interactive Design by Jennifer Preece

http://keirrichardson.com/interaction-design/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interaction-Design-Disciplines.png