PSYC 444 Lecture Notes - Graphical User Interface, User-Centered Design, Cyberpsychology

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 444
• Professor: Kent Norman

Document Summary

Cyberpsychology- study of things that pertain both to the behavior of humans and to the activities of computers. History of psychology: wilhem wundt- world"s first psychologist. First generation- first machines based on wired circuits, electromagnetic relays and vacuum tubes large and unreliable and used a lot of electricity. Second generation- invention of transistor in 1947 which replaced relays and vacuum tubes of 1stg. printed circuit boards reduced computer size in 1950-60s. 1958 computer chip incorporated many transistor gates on 1 microchip era of large mainframe computers of 60s. Generation 1- computer programming languages and operating systems used to shape hci programming= communicating to computer and display was feedback alphanumeric and language based software psychology (ben schneiderman) Generation 2- 1973 breakthrough where xerox created paperless office, the alto computer w/ first graphical user interface or gui and first internal network (ethernet) Steve jobs of apple used gui to create lisa.