HCI in the next millennium: supporting he world mind

摘要

This presentation uses three worlds, collective stance and learning curves perspectives to analyse developments in human-computer interaction. It argues from historic data that the human interests have remained unchanged over at lest five millennia, and may be expected to have the smae basis during the next millennium. It concludes that we are still at a very early stage in the development of HCI, and that the major impact of the technology on our societies is yet to come. To understand the issues involved we will need greater understanding of the operation of our societies, their economies, politics and clutures, and how these evolve under the influence of environmental factors including advances in information technologies.