This is a list of topics in human-computer interaction.
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General
- accessibility and Computer accessibility
- adaptive autonomy
- affordance
- banner blindness
- contextual design and contextual inquiry
- gender HCI
- gulf of execution
- habituation
- human action cycle
- human interface device
- human-machine interface
- interaction
- interaction technique
- look and feel
- mode
- principle of least astonishment
- progressive disclosure
- transparency (computing)
- usability and usability testing
- user, luser
- user-friendliness
- user interface and user interface design
- user interface engineering and usability engineering
History
- Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad
- History of automated adaptive instruction in computer applications
- history of the GUI
Related fields
- psychology
- human memory
- human perception
- sociology and social psychology
- cognitive science
- human factors / ergonomics
- computer science
- visualization
- information visualization
- scientific visualization
- knowledge visualization
- design
- library and information science, information science
- information security
- speech-language pathology
- personal information management
- phenomenology
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
- List of output devices
- visual devices
- auditory devices
- tactile devices
Interface design methods
- 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
- User scenario
- value-sensitive design
- Wizard of Oz experiment
Usability
Models and laws
- Hick's law
- Fitts' law
- Steering law
- GOMS - Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
- keystroke-level modelling (KLM)
Interaction styles
- Command line interface
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- WIMP (computing)
- point-and-click
- drag-and-drop
- cursor
- widget (computing)
- direct manipulation interface
- desktop, desktop metaphor, desktop environment, (the paper paradigm)
- window managers
- WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
- Zooming user interface (ZUI)
- brushing and linking
- Crossing-based interfaces
Interaction paradigms
- hypertext, hypermedia and hyperlinks
- speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, non-speech audio input
- mouse gestures and handwriting recognition
- haptics, telehaptics
- Computer-mediated reality
- Virtual reality (VR)
- Augmented reality (AR)
- CSCW: Computer Supported Collaborative (or Cooperative) Work, collaborative software
- Ubiquitous computing ("ubicomp")
- Wearable computers, Wearable computing and cyborgs
- brain-computer interface
Miscellaneous
- handheld devices
- Human Computer Information Retrieval
- Information retrieval
- Internet and the World Wide Web
- multimedia
- Software agents
- universal usability
- user experience design
- visual programming languages
People
- Bill Buxton
- Douglas Engelbart
- Paul Fitts
- Alan Kay
- Steve Mann
- Ted Nelson
- Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)
- Donald Norman
- Jef Raskin
- George G. Robertson
- Herbert Simon
- Robert Spence
- Ivan Sutherland
- Terry Winograd
Industrial labs and companies
Industrial labs and companies known for innovation and research in HCI:
- Alias Wavefront
- Apple Computer
- AT&T Labs
- Bell Labs
- HP Labs
- Microsoft Research
- SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute)
- Xerox PARC
Notable systems and prototypes
- Office of the future (1940s)
- Sketchpad (1963)
- Dynabook (circa 1970)
- Xerox Alto (1973)
- Xerox Star (1981)
- Apple Macintosh (1984)
- Knowledge Navigator (1987)
- Project Looking Glass (circa 2003 or 2004)
- The Humane Environment (alpha release, 2004)
Movies
Movies featuring interesting user interfaces:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Alien (1979)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Tron (film) (1982)
- The Last Starfighter (1984)
- Ghost in the Shell (1991/1995)
- The Lawnmower Man (1992)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
- Minority Report (2002)
- I, Robot (2004)
- Ironman (2008)
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