Monday, October 31, 2011

Interaction Studies



What is interaction ?

According to the definition from the dictionary,
1.
a. The act or process of interacting.
2. Physics Any of four fundamental ways in which elementary particles and bodies can influence each other, classified as strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational.
b. The state of undergoing interaction.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.




1.
 a mutual or reciprocal action or influence2. (Physics / General Physics) Physics the transfer of energy between elementary particles, between a particle and a field, or between fields See strong interactionelectromagnetic interactionfundamental interactiongravitational interactionweak interactionelectroweak interaction
interactional  adj
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

Basically interaction mean something that can be touch by us. An example such as computer device, we use a mouse to control where we want to click in and a keyboard to type in data to electronic device or can be known as how we control the whole system. Interaction also brings good and bad, if a good interaction are there then the whole process are smooth and well control but not in the other hand that is bad interaction.

Human computer interaction (HCI) which according to Wikipedia is the study,planning and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers. For example, characters or objects displayed by software on a personal computer's monitor, input received from users via hardware peripherals such as keyboards and mouses, and other user interactions with large-scale computerized systems such as aircraft and power plants.
There a same review from IBM which is how people connect with the technology (https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_pic.php?id=4)
Since the technology keep growing time by time,human interaction to the technology are getting faster so HCI is where the research on how human interact with the technologies such as for now is Apple iPhone. (http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/)

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