Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

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This paper provides background information about software user interfaces, its design and development, and the interface design issues of usability and pedagogical impacts.

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"In general, the user interface describes the "look and feel" of a computer, how the human communicates with the computer, and the interaction between the two. Jean-Louis Gassee, former president of Apple Products, describe the interface as the "cognitive locus of human-computer interaction" (Gassee, 1990). Norman likens the successful user interface to a doorknob -- people don't think of the doorknob as the interface to the door, they subconsciously use it to go in and out of a door. He believes that the interface works best when it is so seamlessly integrated with the task to be performed that the user interface disappears from consciousness (Norman, 1990). A person's task, in this analogy, is to walk through the door, and the doorknob is the interaction, the user interface, between that person and the door. Norman feels that the interface designer should be asking the question, "what tools should be provided for the task?", instead of the traditional "how should we design the interface?""

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