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Human–Computer Interaction

By: Alan Dix

Human–computer interaction is a difficult endeavor with glorious rewards. Designing interactive computer systems to be effective, efficient, easy, and enjoyable to use is important, so that people and society may realize the benefits of computationbased devices. The subtle weave of constraints and their trade-offs – human, machine, algorithmic, task, social, aesthetic, and economic – generates the difficulty. The reward is the creation of digital libraries where scholars can find and turn the pages of virtual medieval manuscripts thousands of miles away; medical instruments that allow a surgical team to....