The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) defines human–computer interaction as "a discipline that is concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them". Instead of designing regular interfaces, the different research branches focus on the concepts of multimodality over unimodality, intelligent adaptive interfaces over command/action based ones, and active interfaces over passive interfaces. The growth in human–computer interaction field has led to an increase in the quality of interaction, and resulted in many new areas of research beyond. Voice user interfaces (VUI) are used for speech recognition and synthesizing systems, and the emerging multi-modal and Graphical user interfaces (GUI) allow humans to engage with embodied character agents in a way that cannot be achieved with other interface paradigms. Desktop applications, internet browsers, handheld computers, and computer kiosks make use of the prevalent graphical user interfaces (GUI) of today. HCI is also sometimes termed human–machine interaction (HMI), man-machine interaction (MMI) or computer-human interaction (CHI). Humans interact with computers in many ways, and the interface between the two is crucial to facilitating this interaction. ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. The notion of dialogue likens human–computer interaction to human-to-human interaction: an analogy that is crucial to theoretical considerations in the field. The term is intended to convey that, unlike other tools with specific and limited uses, computers have many uses which often involve an open-ended dialogue between the user and the computer. Moran in their 1983 book, The Psychology of Human–Computer Interaction, although the authors first used the term in 1980, and the first known use was in 1975. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways.Īs a field of research, human–computer interaction is situated at the intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, design, media studies, and several other fields of study. Human–computer interaction ( HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people ( users) and computers.
A computer monitor provides a visual interface between the machine and the user.