Patrick' s World

Human-Computer Interaction

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is a subject I'm professionally interested in. It's about making software and computer-powered devices easy to use. In order to avoid the limiting term computer in HCI, you can as well call it usability, which has the additional advantage of being a fashionable buzzword.
Being quite interdisciplary, HCI nicely combines different domains of research, mostly computer science (which I graduated in) and psychology (my minor academic subject).

This is what I've written in relation to HCI:

P. Schumacher, H. Kahler (1999): Anwendbarkeit software-ergonomischer Kriterien auf Einsatz und Gestaltung von Agententechnologie. In: Arend et al (ed.s): Software-Ergonomie '99, Teubner. Software-Ergonomie '99 conference, March 1999, Walldorf/Germany, 393-394.

P. Schumacher (1999): HCI-Prospekte von Softwareagenten, GMD Research Series 3/1999.
See also my thesis' homepage for more information about HCI and agents.

P. Schumacher (1996): Designing an easy-to-use VCR remote control. Unpublished term paper.

P. Schumacher (1995): HCI and the elderly. Unpublished term paper.

Donald Norman is a HCI guru I like a lot. His books are easy-to-read, insightful and funny. Prepare to see a homepage that is much funnier than you could expect it from a 65-year-old, including his most impressing CV.