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Editor's Notes
“ Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.”
Da: ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human Computer Interaction, 1992 http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cdg/
“ User interface design is a very difficult business. It combines two awkward disciplines: psycology and computer sciences. These disciplines have very different cultural backgrounds: psycology is concerned with people; computer science with computer machinery. Psychologists are supposedly sympathetic and understanding; computer scientist are supposedly mathematical and precise. Psychologysts have enough trouble understanding people even when they are not using computers; computer scientists have enough troble getting programs to work even when they are not being used by people. Good user interface design requires these two perspectives to be united.”