List of human-computer interaction topics

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

General

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

History

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

Related fields

• 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
• library and information science, information science
• information security
  • HCISec
• speech-language pathology
• personal information management
• phenomenology

Hardware

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

• 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
• User scenario
• value-sensitive design
• Wizard of Oz experiment

Usability

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

Models and laws

• Hick's law
• Fitts' law
• Steering law
• GOMS - Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
• Keystroke-Level Model (KLM)

Interaction styles

• 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
    • cursor
    • widget (computing)
    • icons
• WIMP (computing)
• point-and-click
• drag-and-drop
• direct manipulation interface
• desktop, desktop metaphor, desktop environment, (the paper paradigm)
• window managers
• WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
• Zooming user interface (ZUI)
• brushing and linking
• Crossing-based interfaces

Interaction paradigms

• hypertext, hypermedia and hyperlinks
• speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, non-speech audio input
• mouse gestures and handwriting recognition
• haptics, telehaptics
• Computer-mediated reality
  • Virtual reality (VR)
  • Augmented reality (AR)
• CSCW: Computer Supported Collaborative (or Cooperative) Work, collaborative software
• Ubiquitous computing ("ubicomp")
• Wearable computers, Wearable computing and cyborgs
• brain-computer interface
• Multiple frames interface

Miscellaneous

• 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

People

• Bill Buxton
• Douglas Engelbart
• Paul Fitts
• Alan Kay
• Steve Mann
• Ted Nelson
• Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)
• Donald Norman
• Jef Raskin
• George G. Robertson
• Herbert Simon
• Robert Spence
• Ivan Sutherland
• Terry Winograd

Industrial labs and companies

Industrial labs and companies known for innovation and research in HCI:

• Alias Wavefront
• Apple Computer
• AT&T Labs
• Bell Labs
• HP Labs
• Microsoft Research
• SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute)
• Xerox PARC

Notable systems and prototypes

• Office of the future (1940s)
• Sketchpad (1963)
• Dynabook (circa 1970)
• Xerox Alto (1973)
• Xerox Star (1981)
• Apple Macintosh (1984)
• Knowledge Navigator (1987)
• Project Looking Glass (circa 2003 or 2004)
• The Humane Environment (alpha release, 2004)

Movies

Movies featuring interesting user interfaces:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Alien (1979)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Tron (film) (1982)
• The Last Starfighter (1984)
• Ghost in the Shell (1991/1995)
• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Serial Experiments Lain
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
• Minority Report (2002)
• I, Robot (2004)
• Ironman (2008)