Human-computer Interaction Concepts Research Articles

Interaction with Large Displays

Large interactive displays are increasingly placed in public (or semipublic) locations, including museums, shops, various city settings, and offices. This article discusses the evolution of such displays by looking at their use and analyzing how they are changing the concept of human-computer interaction through new modalities. By surveying the literature on systems using these displays, relevant features were identified and used as classification dimensions. The analysis provided may inform the design and development of future installations. A discussion on research challenges concludes the article.

Cross-disciplinary Participatory & Contextual Design Research: Creating a Teacher Dashboard Application

Concepts of Human Computer Interaction have crossed disciplinary boundaries allowing the discovery of underlying stakeholder affordances to emerge during the design research phase of system design. For the current scenario, middle school mathematics teachers as data-driven decision makers are inundated with diagnostic and assessment data, resulting in data deluge. The situation is unlikely to subside as digital technologies and media are broadly adopted for instruction and learning. Teachers could benefit from tools to quickly sift through this data to inform classroom instruction. Data should be visualized in a way that teachers can make real-time formative and summative assessments of student progress. The purpose of this article is to introduce a mixed-method mode of discovery to uncover affordances innate to classroom teachers during the design of an iPad data visualization application. These technology-assisted “dashboard” platforms could serve as efficient and effective interventions to deal with the copious amounts of data streams now available to teachers.

Transformation of Information Technology Based on Human Computer Interaction Concept

Transformation technology brings importance consequence to the management system improvement and expansion. In this case exploiting of Information Technology (IT) is hardly required to manage because of it affect to efficiency and effectiveness of the system. The purpose of this paper is to design Integrated Academic Management Information System (IAMIS) with concept of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The method which be applied is qualitative method by using inductive analysis approach by ignoring initial hypothesis of the research, but to find patterns, forms and themes to expose data systematically. The final result is HCI applied in IAMIS system has been applied, so that found usability and functional system, effective and efficient of AIMIS system are fully be able to carry out well. Furthermore, the analysis results show using IAMIS system affected the staff productivity increasing by 12%, it also means affected in improvement of information services to the academic community. The writer recommended to design system on the concepts of HCI and accommodated is able to online (web-based) system. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ij-ict.v2i3.4115 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Table Normal; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

Designing the Workflow of a Language Interpretation Device Using Artificial Intelligence

Among all the obstacles there existed and currently existing between mankind from very early age of human civilization to the age of modern globalization, language difference between humans has always been a crucial problem being a spine in the throat. This paper emphasizes on language interpretation device and its application in the modern world to alleviate the difference between humans and the discrimination between tongues within continents. The paper deals with a concept of HCI (Human Computer Interaction) in developing a language interpretation device which can automatically interpret multiple languages into a target language in a dynamic environment within a specific time. The concept is developed with a sense of mobility into action with an efficient method of consuming voice as input and developing a processed meaningful voice as output. The paper also demonstrates the work flow of the systems those are implemented in this device. The paper also describes the core system architecture and the function of component in the system. The effectiveness of the presented approach also is shown with some future works.

Penerapan Model Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Dalam Analisis Sistem Informasi

Information system Analysis is very important to do to produce easy, effective, efficient, and proper use system for the user. This research is meant to design and apply information system analysis model with the concept of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Jacob Nielsen’s usability criteria which are learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors and satisfaction. The model of information system analysis Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with five usability criteria can be used as a standard to analyze how far Human Computer Interaction can be applied into the system so that every weakness will be known and system maintenance can be performed. The application Human Computer Interaction model in analysis of Sistem Administrasi Sekolah (SAS) produce a conclusion that only half of Human Computer Interaction concept applied into SAS Dikmenti DKI Jakarta. SAS is easy to be learned and to remember but SAS is not efficient and not yet have the ability to cope the mistake well. Users are satisfied enough with the result achieved through SAS but the facility provided by SAS is considered not enough to accommodate the need of the users.

Teaching HCI Design Principles Using Culturally Current Media

Human-computer interaction (HCI) design principles are often difficult to describe and teach. Not only do many students believe the design of interfaces to be common sense, but they often come from disparate fields to study HCI. In an effort to assist faculty in developing successful HCI curricula, five (5) sample pairings of design concepts and popular media are presented. Key HCI design principles and concepts are demonstrated using relevant, current media examples that the students may have had previous exposure to. Initial use of these tools has proven to be promising in terms of engaging students and increasing understanding.

The Importance of Cognitive Fit in Mobile Information Systems

This study extends the range where cognitive fit theory (CFT) has been tested. We replicate on a mobile device the original Vessey and Galletta [1991] study to see if the theory holds in the same way, and we find approximately the same results. However, when we extend the experiment to include common additional tasks to find its relative importance, we find CFT to not be nearly as important as other human-computer interaction concepts like crowding and text entry. The experiments conducted are explained, and the importance of this research in future context is also discussed.

Teaching Usability Methods to Undergraduate Students: Can We Measure Changes in Experience?

Instructors at the Air Force Academy recently developed an undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) laboratory to teach basic components of HCI concepts to undergraduate students. The objective was to develop a teaching laboratory so that students would gain the necessary experience to conduct usability evaluation on local projects. The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in a student's technique of identifying usability problems while using the HCI laboratory. Thirteen students in an undergraduate HCI course participated in the study. During a pre-and post-assessment, we collected several measures in order to quantify any changes experienced by the students as they logged usability problems. These measures included attention focus, number of problems identified, word count, and use of HCI terms in describing usability problems. Results showed that the metrics of number of usability problems identified and the use of HCI technical terms were particularly sensitive to changes over the semester.

User evaluation of HCI concepts for defining product form

A complaint amongst industrial designers is that the human–computer interaction (HCI) of computer-aided design (CAD) systems does not fit their needs for defining product form. This paper disseminates research to identify and address the shortfalls. A strengths and weaknesses analysis of three modelling media (foam, CAD, FreeForm ® ) is reported and used to influence the design of 11 novel HCI concepts for form creation. Expert users are found to prefer ‘virtual workshop’ and ‘intelligent environment’ concepts, whilst immersive environments capable of rapid project switching are liked. The results justify initiatives for developing prototype and commercial systems.

Applying the Power of Patterns to the Web

With the vast amount of talent and experience that has gone into today's Web site development, there must be a way to leverage the best and avoid the worst when building new sites or individual pages. In A Pattern Language for Web Usability, Ian Graham makes a serious attempt at this goal by marrying the reuse concept of patterns for the Web with the human computer interaction concept of usability. The notion is brilliant, and the book does hold some gems. Overall, however, the book's execution of this marriage fails.

Community knowledge in an emerging online professional community: the case of Sigchi.dk

AbstractThis paper focuses on community knowledge in an emerging online professional community. Members of a Danish human–computer interaction community, 120 usability professionals, designers and researchers, described in an online survey their interest in theory and familiarity with methods. The results are reported in detail, and show a unanimous interest in theory, with a variety of reasons behind. Furthermore, the results indicate that the community's body of theoretical knowledge is divided into clear‐cut faculties, with only general usability and human–computer interaction concepts available for communication and cooperation. This implies that a view of the Danish usability professionals as sharing a special discipline is wrong, and that attempts to create a special common language or general theoretical framework (e.g. Kuutti and Bannon, 1991) will be unfruitful. Rather, an online professional community should be interpreted as a community of interest (Fischer, 2001), and we should use tools developed for these kinds of communities as support tools. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Introducing assistive technology in an HCI course

This poster describes part 1 of the 2-year project "Integrating Assistive Technology into an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum from an HCI Approach," funded by the National Science Foundation. The intent of this phase of the project is to introduce the topic of computerized aids for the disabled (generally called assistive technology (AT)) as one-to-three week curriculum modules as part of a typical human-computer interaction (HCI) course offered for senior Computer Science majors. This poster will briefly describe some of the topics to be covered, how these topics fit within HCI concepts, sample assignments, and the laboratory equipment used to support demonstrations and assignments.

Security and human computer interfaces

Computer users are exposed to technology mainly through user interfaces. Most users' perceptions are based on their experience with these interfaces. HCI (human computer interaction) is concerned with these interfaces and how they can be improved. Considerable research has been conducted and major advances have been made in the area of HCI. Information security is becoming increasingly important and more complex as business is conducted electronically. However, state-of-the-art security-related product development has ignored general aspects of HCI. The objective of this paper is to promote and enable security awareness of end-users in their interaction with computer systems. It thus aims to consolidate and integrate the two fields of information security and HCI. HCI as a research discipline is a well developed field of study, and the authors are of the opinion that the use of security technologies can be significantly enhanced by employing proven HCI concepts in the design of these technologies. In order to achieve this, various criteria for a successful HCI in a security-specific environment will be examined. Part of the Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall will be used as a case study and analysed according to these criteria, and recommendations will be made.

Applying Knowledge Management in Higher Education: The Creation of a Learning Organisation

Knowledge Management (KM) has recently received considerable attention in the computer information systems community and is continuously gaining interest by industry, enterprises and academia. As we are moving into an era of "knowledge capitalism", knowledge management in combination with information management will play a fundamental role towards the success of transforming individual knowledge into organizational knowledge. Higher education (HE) institutions are in the knowledge business, since they are involved in knowledge creation, dissemination and learning. The increasing economic importance of knowledge, which nowadays redefines the links among education, work and learning, makes the role of KM in HE crucial.In this framework, this paper presents the key concepts of human-computer interaction in knowledge management, discusses their applicability to HE and proposes the creation of learning organisations in HE institutions, as an innovative way to apply KM to HE.

Two for One: Squeezing Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering into a Core Computer Science Course

The final report of the Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula (CC2001) suggests that an updated computer science curricula must reflect the broadening nature of our discipline. Two areas that are included in the CC2001 are software engineering (SE) and human-computer interaction (HCI). While the first inclination might be to incorporate HCI concepts into a traditional SE course, we propose a different approach. This paper outlines a project-oriented HCI course in which we are able to emphasize some SE notions in the context of HCI concepts. Our course is also a maturation class for our students because they are exposed to a number of non-programming computer science activities, including project specification, software and interface design, user testing, prototyping and use of guidelines. We include an overview of course content that illustrates our approach. We also describe our coverage of specific CC2001 knowledge units and provide some feedback data for our course.

SMALL MULTIPLE ORDERED EVALUATION AND INTERFACE DESIGN FOR INTERACTIVE SURVEYS

This paper provides a fresh look at the central data collection technique in Kansei engineering, the questionnaire or survey. The focus is the construction of the survey interface. We detail the construction of an original method of evaluation for computer-based surveys that is less fatiguing, has fewer acclimation problems, and requires less time than other methods, such as paired comparison. This method, Small Multiple Ordered Evaluation (SMOE) has been used in several Kansei-related projects. We compare SMOE with a common relative, paired comparison, from the viewpoint of human-computer interface evaluation models. Time trials and subject interviews show that SMOE, which is more complex by these methods of measurement, is quicker and less fatiguing than paired comparison. This analysis leads to further discussion of the survey interface in general, including interactive color balance experiments and common Kansei methods such as semantic differential. The main object of the paper is to discuss human-computer interaction concepts as they relate to questionnaires the field of Kansei, which depends so heavily on these types of surveys.

HCI (human computer interaction): concepto y desarrollo

The concept of human-computer interaction (HCI) is analysed from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, including a review of the evolution of HCI from the 1950s up to the present. The author stresses the importance of incorporating HCI studies within the curricula of information science programmes.

A collaborative learning trial between New Zealand and Sweden-using Lotus Notes Domino in teaching the concepts of Human Computer Interaction

This paper reports the results of a collaborative learning exercise between students at Auckland Institute of Technology and Uppsala University. The exercise was conducted using both a Lotus Notes Domino™ collaborative database and electronic mail to support students working in remote groups to perform a common task. Issues concerning the logistics of such an exercise, student participation and evaluations of the process, ethical considerations and the quality of the learning process are discussed. Some conclusions are drawn concerning the value of Group Ware technology to support this form of collaborative learning, and suggestions are made for future developments.

Human–computer interaction: Interdisciplinary roots and trends

Methodology, theory, and practice in the field of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) all share the goal of producing interactive software that can be used efficiently, effectively, safely, and with satisfaction. HCI is cross-disciplinary in its conduct and multidisciplinary in its roots. The central concept of HCI is usability, ease of use plus usefulness. Achieving good usability requires attention to both product and development process, particularly for the user interaction design, which should serve as requirements for the user interface software component. This paper reviews some of the theory and modeling supporting the practice of HCI, development life cycles and activities, and much of the practice that constitutes “usability engineering”. Future application areas of interest in HCI include new interaction styles, virtual environments, the World Wide Web, information visualization, and wearable computing.

Are we recognising the organisational impact on educational software design?

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