Human–Computer Interaction

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future of HcI

Human–computer interaction (HCI) has contributed much to the

advancement of computing and its spread into our everyday living. e

prevalent type of interface up to the late twentieth century was the

so-called WIMP (windows, icon, mouse, pointer) and graphical user

interface (GUI) for the stationary desktop computing environment.

is was a huge improvement over its predecessor, the keyboard-input

command-oriented interface. Much innovation has been made on the

two-dimensional (2-D)-oriented desktop interface since it was first

introduced in the early 1980s. ese include ergonomic mouse and

keyboard design, hypertext and web interface, user interface tool-

kits, extension of the Fitts’s law, interaction modeling, and evalua-