Reimagining HCI: Toward a more human-centered perspective

A more human-centered approach might reframe certain current research topics and the heterogeneity of conceptual and methodological approaches is found within a revitalized human-computer interaction (HCI) community. A human-centered approach to automation is developed that is based on an increasing awareness of the importance of human skills and judgment in making such systems work. The term human centered implies a more specific theoretical and ethical commitment to the design and development of technologies that augment the already existing skills and expertise of human workers. A simplistic model of human and collective memory assumes the capture of every event and activity in real time and become relevant in some way to human activities of remembering and communicating. The concerns with examining human values and the theme of human-centered computing highlight human and societal concerns that can be explored with and through new media and technologies.