Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the study, planning and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers.
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What research is there suggesting modal dialogs are disruptive?
It seems "Everyone" knows they're highly disruptive for many situations but often times clients don't. Particularly in desktop applications this form of dialog is often misused, often disrupting a ...
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Defining “Instantaneous” as part of usability acceptance criteria
The Setup
I have run into this problem time and time again. An interface is performing slow and QA and/or Engineering come back and ask, "can you please define the acceptance criteria for how fast ...
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How to break into the field of HCI?
Before you make a remark of this has been asked over and again, let me point out that I have done my research -
Do I have the skills for UX?
As a programmer, how do I move into UX?
Getting into ...
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Use of 'she' in scientific literature
While reading through plenty of scientific papers for my thesis relating to Human Computer Interaction (HCI), I am under the impression almost everybody refers to users/subjects/persons/... as 'she'.
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