#human computer interaction

[fractalalia]

Gonna fire this baby up with the following post regarding #CHI2024, #whyCHI, and any other academic conference planning to remain in Hawai'i in this or any other year. May this discomfort lead us to new knowledge and renewed action.

#MauiSolidarity

Learning from Discomfort

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate - John Dewey

[stygimolochh]

If anyone here has done a human computer interaction MS please talk to me about it 🙏

[aspiring-gilmore]

Last night I had a dream that I was looking at a research paper with my name as the first name and I nearly cried it was literally such a dream

[pleasantparadisedreamer]

[kenyatta]

Why are we losing the wayfinding skills of our ancestors? – Michael Bond | Aeon Essays

Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. Have we lost the trail in modern times?

In the age of GPS, we tend to take our navigation and spatial abilities for granted, until they – or the technology – let us down. It is easy to forget that they have sustained us for tens of thousands of years. Over the course of our evolution, Homo sapiens developed an appetite for exploration and a wayfinding spirit that set us apart from previous human species. It had a huge effect on our future. One of the most intriguing recent ideas in anthropology is that our ability to navigate was essential to our success as a species, because it allowed us to cultivate extensive social networks. In prehistoric times, when people lived in small family units and spent much of their time looking for food and shelter, being able to share information with other groups about the whereabouts of resources and the movements of predators would have given us an evolutionary edge. Friends were a survival asset: if you ran out of food, you knew where to go; if you needed help on a hunt, you knew whom to ask.

Maintaining those social networks across tens or hundreds of square miles of Palaeolithic wilderness would have required navigation skills, spatial awareness, a sense of direction and the ability to store mental maps of the landscape. The Canadian anthropologist Ariane Burke believes that our ancestors developed these attributes while trying to keep in touch with their neighbours. ‘Those far-flung networks were essential to our culture,’ she told me. ‘During the Palaeolithic, there were comparatively few people around. Maintaining a spatially extensive social network was a way of ensuring your continued survival. You would need a very dynamic cognitive map, which you would constantly have to update with information about your contacts and what they were telling you about the landscape.’ In this way, the human brain became primed for wayfinding. Navigation and spatial awareness are part of our DNA.

[studywithkt]

hoping my human-computer interaction course will get more interesting in the next few weeks 😅

[prostheticknowledge]

TreeSense

Project from Yedan Qian and Xin Liu is a virtual reality experience where you can become a tree, and provides sense of tactility through Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS):

TreeSense is a sensory VR system that transforms a person into a tree, from a seedling to its full-size form, to its final destiny. The person experiences what it feels like to be a tree by seeing and feeling her arms turning into branches and her body into a trunk. To evoke these sensations, we put electrodes at several key locations on the user’s forearms to stimulate muscles and the skin, so that she can feel branches growing, a worm crawling, or a bird landing on her arm. This intimate, visceral experience dramatically creates an illusion of being a different life form, and thus develops a personal, immediate identification with a need of environmental protection.

More Here

[topacademo-blog]

The Human-Computer Interaction

One of the most important elements when it comes to developing whether a game or an application is the User Interface which concerns to the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

ACM SIGCHI stated in his study that:

“Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.”

Human-Computer Interaction is also important in every interactive software. It is also defined as a cross-disciplinary area that accords with the theory, design, implementation and evaluation of the ways that humans used together with the interacting with the computing devices for a given tasks. The word ‘Interaction’ itself is a concept that has to do with the interface and is a choice of technical realization, either software or hardware, of a given interaction model. Therefore, HCI denotes to both Interaction and Interface. HCI requirement may specify any aspect of the user interface. It may include a statement about styles such as command language, menu systems and icons, format whether it’s a report content or a layout, messages like brief and exhaustive, and responsiveness which was defined as the time taken respond to one command.

Also see What is the importance of User-centric design?