Human-Computer Interaction is a broad field, originally emerged from computer science, but has long been composed of interfaces from different fields, e.g. psychology, design, cognitive science, ethnography, sociology, human factors, etc.
The term HCI became popular from the work "The Psychology of Human- Computer Interaction" written by Stuart K. Card, Allen Newell, and Thomas P. Moran.
Today, the computer is ubiquitous this expression and as well "Internet of Things" were made famous by Mark Weiser. "The most profound technologies are those that disappear." The first sentence from his article "Ubiquitous computing. The Computer for the 21st Century."
From the development of this area, methods were then described that are applied in the design to capture or investigate all these complex threads and behaviors.
These four methods were explained "Bodystorming", "Ethnographic Video", "Cultural Probes", "Inclusive design". There are of course many more but in this lesson an eye was kept on these terms. In general, in each of these methods you try to immerse yourself in a certain phenomenon, how people behave, what habits are common, how they react in certain situations etc. In "Bodystorming" one stands literally in the event with "Ethnographic Video" one tries to create a picture behind the lens, "Cultural Probes" approaches this with a playful approach and in "Inclusive Design" in our example a special solution, optimization was especially sought for a certain type of people in cooperation.
The task was dedicated to the "Cultural Probes". In a simplified form of this method, questions were answered not by means of words but drawings and dots setting. It should record that the playful is important and to shoot the context also a drawing can provide many small details. Other ways of communication and mediation often contain important aspects or create an impressive overview, which is otherwise so often followed by classical question an already often known answer.
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