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This is a list of topics in human–computer interaction.

Contents 1 General 2 History 3 Related fields 4 Hardware 5 Interface design methods 6 Usability 7 Models and laws 8 Interaction styles 9 Interaction paradigms 10 Miscellaneous 11 People

General Edit

• accessibility and computer accessibility
• adaptive autonomy
• affordance
• banner blindness
• computer user satisfaction
• contextual design and contextual inquiry
• gender HCI
• gulf of evaluation
• gulf of execution
• habituation
• human action cycle
• human interface device
• human–machine interface
• interaction
• interaction technique
• look and feel
• mode
• physiological interaction
• principle of least astonishment
• progressive disclosure
• sonic interaction design
• thanatosensitivity
• transparency
• usability and usability testing
• user, luser
• user-friendliness
• user interface and user interface design
• user interface engineering and usability engineering

HistoryEdit

• Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad
• History of automated adaptive instruction in computer applications
• History of the GUI

Related fieldsEdit

• psychology
  • human memory
  • human perception
    • sensory system
• sociology and social psychology
• cognitive science
• human factors / ergonomics
  • repetitive strain injury
• computer science
  • computer graphics
  • artificial intelligence
  • computer vision
• visualization
  • information visualization
  • scientific visualization
  • knowledge visualization
• design
  • industrial design
  • graphic design and aesthetics
  • information design
  • interaction design
  • sonic interaction design
• Interactive Art and HCI
• library and information science, information science
• information security
  • HCISec
• speech-language pathology
• personal information management
• phenomenology

Hardware Edit

Hardware input/output devices and peripherals:

• List of input devices
  • unit record equipment
  • barcode scanner
  • keyboard
    • computer keyboard
    • keyboard shortcut
    • ways to make typing more efficient: command history, autocomplete, autoreplace and Intellisense
  • microphone
  • pointing device
    • computer mouse
      • mouse chording
• List of output devices
  • visual devices
    • graphical output device
    • display device
    • computer display
    • video projector
    • computer printer
    • plotter
  • auditory devices
    • speakers
    • earphones
  • tactile devices
    • refreshable Braille display
    • braille embosser
    • Haptic devices

Interface design methods Edit

• activity-centered design
• Affordance analysis
• bodystorming
• Contextual design
• focus group
• iterative design
• participatory design
• pictive user interface workshop method
• rapid prototyping
• Scenario-based design (SBD)
• task analysis/task modeling
• user-centered design
• usage-centered design
• User scenario
• value-sensitive design
• Wizard of Oz experiment

Usability Edit

• Usability testing
• heuristic evaluation
• cognitive walkthrough
• usability lab

Models and laws Edit

• Hick's law
• Fitts' law
• Steering law
• GOMS – goals, operators, methods, and selection rules
• Keystroke-level model (KLM)

Interaction styles Edit

• Command line interface
• Graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Copy and paste, Cut and paste
  • Single Document Interface, Multiple Document Interface, Tabbed Document Interface
  • Elements of graphical user interfaces
    • Pointer
    • Widget (computing)
    • icons
• WIMP (computing)
• Point-and-click
• Drag-and-drop
• Window managers
• WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
• Zooming user interface (ZUI)
• Brushing and linking
• Crossing-based interfaces

Interaction paradigms Edit

• Time Sharing (1957)
• hypertext (Ted Nelson 1963), hypermedia and hyperlinks
• Direct manipulation (ex. lightpen 1963, mice 1968)
• Desktop metaphor (197x XEROX PARC)
• Windows-Paradigm
• Personal Computer (1981)
• CSCW: Computer Supported Collaborative (or Cooperative) Work, collaborative software
• WWW (Tim Berners Lee 1989)
• Ubiquitous computing ("ubicomp") coined 1988
• "sensor-based / context-aware interaction"-paradigm

Miscellaneous Edit

• handheld devices
• Human–computer information retrieval
• Information retrieval
• Internet and the World Wide Web
• multimedia
• Software agents
• Universal usability
• User experience design
• Visual programming languages.
• Knowbility

People Edit

• John M. Carroll (information scientist)
• Bill Buxton
• Douglas Engelbart
• Paul Fitts
• Alan Kay
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Steve Mann
• Ted Nelson
• Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)
• Donald Norman
• Jef Raskin
• George G. Robertson
• Herbert A. Simon
• Ivan Sutherland
• Terry Winograd
• Ben Shneiderman

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