Need of research in HCI

This blog is purely for a layman.

We are humans. And we are social animals. The term social means we like to live in a society that consists of humans or animals.

In a society, every thing depends on each other. For an example in a farming society a rice farmer depends upon the sunflower farmer for oil, a sunflower farmer depends upon dairy farmer for compost. Like this manner every living being in a society depends on each other. This is the fundamental principle of a society. 

But, to form a society the people needs to communicate with each other. Without communication, the society will be called as gathering.

This communication is called interaction.

When two persons interact with each other, they share their feelings.

Let's consider two person Jyoti and Pratyush.

When they meet for first time the only medium of interaction is verbal. Just like hello, hi, what's your name etc.

When they met several times and become friends, new medium of interaction took place i.e. sign language like hand waving, handshake, thumbs up, thumbs down etc.

With the flow of time when they become best buddies, uncountable number of mediums included into their interaction process. And for this reason Pratyush can make Jyoti understand difficult things with lesser effort.

The same thing happens here in HCI research. The scientists study the human psychology, prepare algorithms, coding, sensors, hardware. So that, combinely they can help both human and computer to interact with each other with minimum effort.

The core aim of the HCI research is to reduce the effort of Human and increase the accuracy of the computer while interaction occurs.

My Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

Human Computer Interaction is also referred to as Computer Human Interaction or Man Machine Interaction . Fundamental requirements of HCI is to improve the interactions between human (user) and computers by making computer systems more usable and fulfill the needs of the user. HCI studies a human and a machine jointly, it draws from supporting knowledge on both the machine and the human side. It is concerned with the joint performance of tasks by humans and machines. It improves human capabilities to use computers, algorithms and programming of the interface (user and system) itself. Engineering concerns that arise in designing and building interfaces are the process of specification, design, and implementation of interfaces and design trade-offs. Human-Computer Interaction thus has science, engineering, psychological and design aspects.The means by which humans interact with computers continues to evolve rapidly. A new approach must be put together with other driving forces that are changing and shaping the future so that its concepts are not quickly out of date. It is the need of present to develop interactive interaction technologies for future. Full investigation and knowledge aquisition is aimed in regard to capture, process and using all possible intricacies of all type of signals, speech, images, videos and languages to be handled by computers the way humans do.

Source: https://hci.iiita.ac.in

Intention behind

The following posts are going to be very specific. Every post will be focused on Human Computer Interaction.
As I have shifted my aims and goals from Merchant Marine to Computer Science Research.
As much as I learn, it will be posted on my blog.

So, thank you very much. Keep motivating me and be motivated.