Human-Computer Interaction: A Brief Glimpse Of An Emerging Field

The primary goal of this paper is to provide an integrative overview of the research domain that is concerned with the manner in which humans interact with computers. In recent years, several labels have been suggested as descriptors of this research endeavor. These include: cognitive engineering, software psychology, user psychology and applied information processing psychology (Card, Moran and Newell, 1983; Moran, 1981; Norman, 1980; Shneiderman, 1980). Although each of these terms, and the researchers who have proposed them, focus on different aspects of the general topic, they uniformly endorse the proposal that the efficient utilization of computer systems is dependent upon the determination of factors that are important in the design of human-computer interfaces, especially in terms of human learning, memory and performance. Thus, it might be argued that the central theme of the diverse and interdisciplinary field of human-computer interaction is the establishment of design principles based upon an understanding of human cognition and performance in complex information processing tasks.

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