Introduction to Human Computer Interaction Course on NPTEL, Spring 2018 Week 1.1 Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”) Associate Professor ACM Distinguished & TEDx Speaker Linkedin/in/ponguru/ fb/ponnurangam.kumaraguru, @ponguru
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Design and Goals of this class ● Everything designed has some explicit criteria ● Attractive ● Cost effective to manufacture ● Durable ● Water tight ● Can hold hot water effectively ● Separate tea leaves from rest ● But is it usable? ● And is it useful to people? 7
Design and Goals of this class ● Everything designed is done so within a specific context ● Training required ● Conventions ● Laws and regulation ● Competing products ● Human abilities and limitations 8
Design and Goals of this class ● Everything designed is done so within a specific context ● Training required ● Conventions ● Laws and regulation ● Competing products ● Human abilities and limitations ● Understanding these influencing factors also a key part of this course 9
HCI ●Human ●The end-user of a program ●Other people in the organization ●The surrounding cultural context ●Computer ●The hardware and the software ●Microwaves, mobile phones, cars ●Interaction ●The user tells the computer what they want ●The computer communicates results 10
HCI Approach to UI Design Organizational & Social Context Tasks Design Technology Humans ● HCI draws computer science, psychology, and design together ● Main focus is on the people using system 11
Can you operate microwave oven? “Kenneth Olsen, the engineer who founded and still runs Digital Equipment Corp., confessed at the annual meeting that he can’t figure out how to heat a cup of coffee in the company’s microwave oven.” From Wall Street Journal, 1986 12
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”) Associate Professor Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology New Delhi – 110078 pk@iiitd.ac.in precog.iiitd.edu.in
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