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The future of human-computer interaction design
A few years ago, the words “input device” evoked in our mind only two specific objects: the keyboard and the mouse — the main instruments used to provide data to a personal computer. Keyboard and mouse are in fact, two of the first input devices in the history of the computer. Nowadays, with the evolution of computers, we have a large set of input devices that changed the way we interact with the computer. For example, we have smartphones, that allow users to interact with a computer using only their hands’ webcams and microphones, used together to make video-calls and many others.
Think about when your mobile device on the table. You feel comfortable. When That phone put in your pocket. Totally, that feels uncomfortable. Why is this so weird our relationship with technology is changing all around of us? Think about your first computer. How much longer you spend with the computer for the first time you use it. It’s maybe one hour or two hours a day. But think about how the world has changed right now for most of us maybe 85% of us use it more than 8 hours. The thing is that we interact with our device as the first thing we do in the morning.
80% of us first thing that we interact with in the morning is our mobile device. And another thing is most of us that we interact with before we go to sleep.
There have been four major shift in our existence defined by a new relationship with our tools. Before a million years ago we had a hunter-gatherer age. This is the new tools to allow us to extend our psychology and actually survive better this lasted several million years then we had the agriculture age only lasted several thousand years. But it was at this point that new tools allowed us to move from this period of feast and famine. To actually settle to start to move from survival into thriving and built.
Communities tools completely changed our relationship and experience as human beings. We then had the industrial age lasted several thousand or so it’s over 100 years, but again it gave us this ability to completely changes the way that we were able to create and to produce and then finally in only the…
