Human Computer Interaction in 2020

In March 2007, Microsoft Research organised the “HCI 2020” meeting at the El Bulli Hacienda Hotel near Seville, Spain. The event’s title expressed its key question: what will Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) be like in the year 2020? (Harper, Tom, Yvonne, & Abigail, 2008, p. 8) The report that I have read it is divided in a four parts; Part 1 it is look back over the past 20 years or so; Part 2 it gives an outline how does changes are transforming the nature of our interaction with computers and the key questions that need to be addressed in the next 15 years as a result; Part 3 is concerned with HCI as a field of research and as a community of practitioners and designers; Part 4, recommendations, outlines specific suggestions for HCI in terms of how the field needs to be change. Continue reading →