Lecture 2

Human Computer Interaction

COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMBAD, WAH CAMPUS
In the last lecture
Significance of HCI
Truths about computers
Feature shock
Human computer nature
Software Apartheid

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In today’s lecture

Humans
Human psychology
Human Information System
Human Senses and I/O channels

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Human Cognitive Psychology
User as an information system
Working of information system
◦Information comes in,
◦stored
◦processed
◦passes out

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Human Information System

Three components of human information system

◦Input-output
◦Memory
◦processing

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Input/output

◦Vision
◦Auditory
◦Haptic
◦Movement

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Memory

◦Short term
◦Long term
◦Sensory

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Processing

◦Reasoning
◦Problem solving
◦Learning
◦Mistakes

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Input-Output Channels

Means of interaction with the outside world

User’s output -> Computer’s input
Computer’s output -> User’s input

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Human Input Channels

Input Senses
◦Sight
◦Hearing
◦Touch
◦Smell
◦Taste

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Human Output Channels
Output Effectors
◦Limbs
◦Finger
◦Eyes
◦Head
◦Vocal system

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Human Eye (Sight)

Mechanism of transforming received light into electric

energy through receptors
Detects light reflected from the real world objects
Forms an upside down image on retina

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Human Visual Perception

Primary source of information

Stages of perception
◦Reception
◦Interpretation/perception

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Visual Reception

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Visual Perception

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Notion of Visual Perception
Size and depth
◦Visual angle
◦Visual acuity
◦Overlapping
Brightness and color
◦Luminance
◦Visual Acuity increases with luminance
◦Hue, intensity, saturation
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Limitations of Visual Processing

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Limitations ….

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Limitations ….

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Optical Center Illusions

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Optical Illusions…

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Optical Illusions…

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Textual Vision

Reading
Stages of reading
◦Perceiving visual patterns
◦Decoding
◦Syntactic and Semantic analysis
◦Negative vs. Positive contrast

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Human Auditory System
Sense of Hearing
Perceives sound waves
◦ Distance
◦ Direction
◦ Objects
Sections of ear
◦ Outer ear (protects inner parts and amplifies sound)
◦ Middle ear (transmit sounds)
◦ Inner ear (causes impulses in auditory nerve)
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Sound Processing in Ears
Changes or vibrations in air pressure
Characteristics of sound
◦Pitch
◦Loudness
◦Timber
Filtering of sound

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Haptic
Touch
Works with stimulus received through the skin
Vital sense for impaired persons
Provides vital information about the surrounding
environment
Used in virtual reality systems
Kinesthesis: awareness of the position of the body and
limbs
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In the Next Lecture

Human Memory

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