On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Newton, Philip wrote:
> > 
> > > Kirrily Robert wrote:
> > > > when I studied HCI at university.
> > > 
> > > HCI?
> > > 
> > > Human-Computer Interaction, perhaps?
> > 
> > Close -- Human Computer Interface. Interaction would be an obvious
> > example, as would user interface design, ergonomics, psychology, etc. 
> 
> I've always heard it before as Human Computer Interaction.
> 
> dict.org has references for both Interface *and* Interaction, with
> two references to it as Interaction and one as Interface.
 
Well ok, my HCI course in school referred to it as Interface, and
mentioned Interaction as an obvious subset of that, but that doesn't mean
that it was definitive. They're both on the same track anyway... 
 



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Chris Devers    

"People with machines that think, will in times of crisis, 
make up stuff and attribute it to me" - "Nikla-nostra-debo"


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