11 HCI Design Perspectives, Trends and Approaches
David Lamas and Vladimir Tomberg
11.1 Introduction
Human-computer interaction (HCI) emerged as a distinct discipline in the late 1970s and early 1980s (Carroll, 2016, p. 21). While the study and design of interactions between humans and computers have been ongoing since the advent of computers (Dix, 2010; Grudin, 2011), the establishment of HCI as a discipline gained momentum during this period, marked by several landmarks (Grudin, 1990, 2005, 2011).
One such landmark is the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart carried out in the 1960s (Engelbart,1962), notably illustrated at the “Mother of All Demos” in 1968 when Douglas Engelbart demonstrated concepts such as ...
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