Interaction Studies and HCI (Introduction)

What is Interaction? What is Interaction Studies? What do HCI mean?


Basically the term Interaction mean communication between two living object through various of media like internet, letter, mail and so on.
Another meaning for Interaction is the feedback from machine, where human interact with machine to receive feedback from it, in other word to make the machine to work by interact with it. For example, car, computer, house-hold machine and much more. 


Interaction Studies is a study of the human and social behaviors on how they communicate.
"Understanding social behaviour and communication in biological and artificial systems requires knowledge of evolutionary, developmental and neurobiological aspects of social behaviour and communication" stated in http://benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=IS
John Benjamins: Details of Interaction Studies.

HCI- Human Computer Interaction
Human Computer Interaction is a study between human and computer on how human (users) interaction with computer's software and hardware.

Quite lot of professional debate on the definitions of HCI.


User Science. HCI seeks to foster a scientific understanding of the cognitive behavior of computer users and the organizational and social impacts of computer use. 
System Design. HCI seeks to foster rational discussion of and methods for the design of new computer systems and the evaluation of existing systems.
"http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07370024.asp"
Different field has their no definition for HCI.


The purpose of studying HCI is to improve the interactions between human and computer.