At the Confluence of Software Engineeringand Human-Computer Interaction:A Personal Account

In this chapter, I review how the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Science have come together over the last 60 years to create and support novel forms of interaction. We see how interaction models have progressively incorporated human skills and abilities, as well as the physical and social properties taken from the real world. I organize this evolution into three periods—pre-HCI, seminal HCI, ubiquitous HCI. Each of these periods is illustrated with key reference works that have influenced my own research as well as contributions of French researchers to the field.