1. Human-Centred Interaction Design David Benyon Napier University

2. Human-Centred Interaction Design Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Interaction Design (ID) + an emerging discipline that deals with the design of experiences in the age of pervasive and ubiquitous computing from a human-centred perspective = HCI-IDContracts to HuCID

3. HuCID is about….. designing interactive systems, services and products from a human- centred perspective. designing web sites, games, interactive products such as MP3 players, digital cameras and applications for personal digital assistants (PDAs). designing whole environments — information spaces — in which phones, PDAs, lap top computers, digital projectors and other devices communicate with one another and through which people interact with one another designing wearables, tangibles, ambient technologies, etc. designing interactive systems and products for the home, for work or to support communities.

4. Design - Engineering + Creativity engineering design: scientific principles,technical specifications, formal models creative or artistic design where innovation and imagination are the key ingredients. fashion designer needs to know about people and fabrics an interior designer also needs to know about paints, lighting and so on a jewellery designer needs to know about precious stones and the properties of metals such as gold and silver. design as a ‘conversation with materials’

5. Interactive Systems the term we use to cover components, devices, products, software systems and services that are primarily concerned with processing information and which respond to people’s actions objects that deal with the transmission, display, storage or transformation of information that people can perceive. This is the medium that the interaction designer has to work with - all the different forms and functions of input and output and all the manipulations that can be performed on the content.

6. Usability and Engagement Usability - achieve a balance between the components Engagement - achieve a harmony between them

7. Conclusions HCI + ID HuCID is an early attempt to characterise the discipline that is emerging from the combination of HCI and ID. HCI’s tradition is engineering, albeit a softer view of engineering than others. ID’s background is in creative design, the ‘artist designer’. HCI has traditionally focused on the usability of an interaction of a person with a computer. ID has been concerned with experience, concept and the culture of new technologies.