Human-Computer Interaction Resource Network

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Affordances*
The term affordance was first coined by the perceptual psychologist James J. Gibson (1979). There have been a number of attempts to adapt his concept to HCI.

Formative and Summative Evaluation*
Scriven (1967) first coined the terms formative and summative evaluation in the context of curriculum evaluation.

Memex*
In an article published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, Vannevar Bush devised of the memex as a device for storing and retrieving information in a way that mirrors the associative nature of human thinking.

Participatory Heuristic Evaluation*
Participatory heuristic evaluation is an extended version of heuristic evaluation.

Usability Methods*
Participatory heuristic evaluation is an extended version of heuristic evaluation.