HumanCentred Interaction Design

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Human-Centred Interaction Design

• David Benyon
• Napier University

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Human-Centred Interaction Design
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Interaction Design (ID)

HCI-ID
Contracts to HuCID
an emerging discipline that deals with the design
of experiences in the age of pervasive and
ubiquitous computing from a human-centred
perspective
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HuCID is about..

• designing interactive systems, services and
  products from a human-centred perspective.
• designing web sites, games, interactive products
  such as MP3 players, digital cameras and
  applications for personal digital assistants
  (PDAs).
• designing whole environments information spaces
  in which phones, PDAs, lap top computers,
  digital projectors and other devices communicate
  with one another and through which people
  interact with one another
• designing wearables, tangibles, ambient
  technologies, etc.
• designing interactive systems and products for
  the home, for work or to support communities.

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Design - Engineering Creativity

• engineering design scientific principles,technica
  l specifications, formal models
• creative or artistic design where innovation and
  imagination are the key ingredients.
• fashion designer needs to know about people and
  fabrics
• an interior designer also needs to know about
  paints, lighting and so on
• a jewellery designer needs to know about precious
  stones and the properties of metals such as gold
  and silver.
• design as a conversation with materials

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Interactive Systems

• the term we use to cover components, devices,
  products, software systems and services
• that are primarily concerned with processing
  information
• and which respond to peoples actions
• objects that deal with the transmission, display,
  storage or transformation of information that
  people can perceive.
• This is the medium that the interaction designer
  has to work with - all the different forms and
  functions of input and output and all the
  manipulations that can be performed on the
  content.

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Usability and Engagement
Usability - achieve a balance between the
components Engagement - achieve a harmony between
them
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Conclusions HCI ID

• HuCID is an early attempt to characterise the
  discipline that is emerging from the combination
  of HCI and ID.
• HCIs tradition is engineering, albeit a softer
  view of engineering than others.
• IDs background is in creative design, the
  artist designer.
• HCI has traditionally focused on the usability of
  an interaction of a person with a computer.
• ID has been concerned with experience, concept
  and the culture of new technologies.