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This is a list of topics in human–computer interaction.

General[]

History[]

  • Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad
  • History of automated adaptive instruction in computer applications
  • History of the GUI

Related fields[]

Hardware[]

Hardware input/output devices and peripherals:

  • List of input devices
    • unit record equipment
    • barcode scanner
    • keyboard
      • computer keyboard
      • keyboard shortcut
      • ways to make typing more efficient: command history, autocomplete, autoreplace and Intellisense
    • microphone
    • pointing device
      • computer mouse
        • mouse chording
  • List of output devices

Interface design methods[]

  • activity-centered design
  • Affordance analysis
  • bodystorming
  • Contextual design
  • focus group
  • iterative design
  • participatory design
  • pictive user interface workshop method
  • rapid prototyping
  • Scenario-based design (SBD)
  • task analysis/task modeling
  • user-centered design
  • usage-centered design
  • User scenario
  • value-sensitive design
  • Wizard of Oz experiment

Usability[]

  • Usability testing
  • heuristic evaluation
  • cognitive walkthrough
  • usability lab

Models and laws[]

Interaction styles[]

  • Command line interface
  • Graphical user interface (GUI)
    • Copy and paste, Cut and paste
    • Single Document Interface, Multiple Document Interface, Tabbed Document Interface
    • Elements of graphical user interfaces
      • Pointer
      • Widget (computing)
      • icons
  • WIMP (computing)
  • Point-and-click
  • Drag-and-drop
  • Window managers
  • WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
  • Zooming user interface (ZUI)
  • Brushing and linking
  • Crossing-based interfaces

Interaction paradigms[]

  • Time Sharing (1957)
  • hypertext (Ted Nelson 1963), hypermedia and hyperlinks
  • Direct manipulation (ex. lightpen 1963, mice 1968)
  • Desktop metaphor (197x XEROX PARC)
  • Windows-Paradigm
  • Personal Computer (1981)
  • CSCW: Computer Supported Collaborative (or Cooperative) Work, collaborative software
  • WWW (Tim Berners Lee 1989)
  • Ubiquitous computing ("ubicomp") coined 1988
  • "sensor-based / context-aware interaction"-paradigm

Miscellaneous[]

People[]

  • John M. Carroll (information scientist)
  • Bill Buxton
  • Douglas Engelbart
  • Paul Fitts
  • Alan Kay
  • Tim Berners-Lee
  • Steve Mann
  • Ted Nelson
  • Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)
  • Donald Norman
  • Jef Raskin
  • George G. Robertson
  • Herbert A. Simon
  • Ivan Sutherland
  • Terry Winograd
  • Ben Shneiderman
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