What is HCI? Have you ever heard of the term or are you even familiar with that word? Well, I’m sure you’re not. Even I am ignorant of the term before I entered this class but unknowingly us human actually use it hmm say 24/7?
Don’t believe me? Read on then.
HCI is an acronym to human-computer-interaction and according to Wikipedia it is defined as study, planning, and design of the interaction between people and c
omputers. Cited from usask.ca, “Human-Computer Interface Design seeks to discover the most efficient way to design understandable electronic messages”.
It’s just an awesome geeky scientific name for everything that you depend on daily.
Nowadays, I think it’s not wrong for me to actually say that people has become to dependent on computer and thus HCI has become an important part of human’s life without them even realizing it. For example, the mouse that you are holding right now or if you are using the touch screen, the thing that you touch or tap just now. Even the browse
r you are using now is in fact a product of HCI. As you reading my pathetic blog entry, you are using loads of HCI.
The importance of HCI was proven more with the existence of apps like Cleverbot that can mimic human conversations by communicating with humans.
In a way, HCI makes ‘communicating’ with machine feels more ‘human’ instead of the bland robotic command that pops up on your computer. It makes human feel more comfortable and relatable using the computer or machine when HCI is applied. It is, in a way is like a need.
Now you can brag to others, “I am using HCI every single day.”
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