Transcript Human-Centred Interaction Design

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 humancentred 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.
People
Activities
Usability and Engagement
Technologies
The P eople-Technology
system
context
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.