4/23.4/25 HUMAN COMUTER INTERACTION

introduction to information technology
[4/23,4/25 -- Human-Computer Interaction--]

This class was related to Human-computer interaction called HCI. HCI is just part of computer science. However we didn’t look around HCI in it’s perspective, we did HCI in art, ethic perspective. Key point of it is that people often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people. Then ironical thing was that HCI related to ethics. Moreover aesthetics and design do too. We looked around a history of HICI as tools. Surprisingly, we already studied them : Bush’s memex, Ivan Sutherland’s sketchpad, Engelbart’s mouse and GUI and word processing, Nelson’s hypertext, so on. World wide web using now is it, too. Interest thing is that initial generation of HCI concentrated only tools(mouse, key board…) as method based on industrial design. However we use and invent the method over it having a purpose.

Then, what is the purpose of tools of the HCI? Answer is that the devices announce human’s direction or indication to the computers.In except, many field including the Military, Universities, Government, Companies were interested in the HCI. Thus they fund it.Finally, HCI met the AI. However there was a question : Should the computer act like a person?. There were

two opinions. First, the agent similar to system of Amazon.com . It can do some things human does not command. The other hand, the direct manipulation can do only some things human does command. Then we should to consider to give some meaning or define(co-construction of meaning). We watched some movies of the HCI, after.We recalled the ELIZA. ELIZA answers our questions but they are not correct. However it is not fail. It is so human.Then, we can do Johnstone’s algorithms. First, point a person, and make him to say something. He will say “I can’t say something.”(shying). Then we should to say to him that “Ok, then can you guess the answer in my mind. Give me questions”(in fact, we have no idea). Then He will start to question and get out of pressure of talking. When we answer the his question, we will have some ruleAs a result, he will happy to know right answer and shout to it. What we draw on it?

Ethnomethodology simply means the study of the ways in which people make sense of their social world. Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. That is order of world is defined by my taste. It is far from mind of 1600s.HCI is from Films. Technology inspires films and film inspires new technology. The new technology develops the HCI, so we can anticipate developing of the HCI in the films. That is, Films are anticipating or inspiring HCI.