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Human-Centred Interaction Design. David Benyon Napier University. Human-Centred Interaction Design. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). +. Interaction Design (ID). =. HCI-ID. Contracts to HuCID.
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Human-Centred Interaction Design David Benyon Napier University
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
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.
Design - Engineering + Creativity • engineering design: scientific principles,technical 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’
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 people’s 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.
Usability and Engagement Usability - achieve a balance between the components Engagement - achieve a harmony between them
Conclusions HCI + ID • HuCID is an early attempt to characterise the discipline that is emerging from the combination of HCI and ID. • HCI’s tradition is engineering, albeit a softer view of engineering than others. • ID’s 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.