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And before HCI it was MMI (Man-Machine)...so the term evolves.

• GuiA 14y ago
  Do you have any references for that? HCI has been in use since the late 70s (I believe it originated at Xerox PARC, since the earliest literature I can find using it is from there), and is now the de-facto standard term for all major conferences/publications. On the other hand, searching "MMI" on the ACM digital library only returns it as an acronym for various more-or-less related things. Maybe MMI is a mistranslation from other languages? This Danish site [1] uses it, and I know the used French term is "Interaction Homme Machine", which I can easily imagine being translated to Man-Machine Interaction [1]: http://www.eit.ihk-edu.dk/subjects/mmi/intro.php#0 http://www.eit.ihk-edu.dk/subjects/mmi/intro.php#0
  • mmahemoff 14y ago
    It's mentioned here for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface. I always got the impression it was a term emerging from the military in the 1940s-50s, when they began to study the ergonomics of cockpits, flight control systems, etc.
  • crs 14y ago
    When working with engineers from Israel, I still hear the term "MMI" used frequently. They use it the same way I would use "HMI" here in the states.