Semester Taught
Spring 2023
Instructor
Margaret Minsky
History of HCI poster

The development of Human Computer Interaction, and its identification as a field, required scientists, engineers, designers, and artists as well as contributions from several other disciplines. In this course, we will learn how humans could imagine and then create computers worth interacting with, and the growth of the ecology of human computer interaction. The focus of our historical lens will be seminal papers and materials from computing, cognitive science, engineering, design, history of technology, and popular culture.