Human-Computer Interaction: A Review of Usability, Design, and Accessibility Trends

Abstract

A critical review of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and as such prime areas of HCI: usability, interface design, accessibility, cognitive and domain specific uses of HCI as well as evaluation techniques of HCI and ethical considerations. With the growing exposures of all interactive technologies to daily life, systems that can be both access able inclusiveness, and ethically contemplated are more than ever in demand. This article has highlighted the importance of user-centered design in enhancing performance and satisfaction of users when looking at the issues multimodal interaction, cultural sensitivity and the digital divide. Design assessment tools like usability testing, eye-tracking are addressed as tools that are needed to assess and assist in improving design. Further, the paper identifies augmented accountability on the part of HCI practitioners in matters of privacy, equity, and access. This review offers an in depth perspective of how HCI can be leveraged to establish a more productive, fair, and more human technological future with an eventual zing review of these axes of borrowing coming near.