Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous Computing is new computer paradigm with seamless integration of hundreds and thousands of self-communicating small scale computers and intelligent devices into the user environment and daily life activities. Ubiquitous computing has high prospects for human life along with certain challenges across computer science, system design, system engineering, system modeling and in Human Computer Interactions (HCI) design. In case of Human Computer Interactions (HCI) there are certain requirements and challenges for ubiquitous computing like minimum user attention in order to enable them to focus on tasks rather than technology. Traditional Human computer Interaction models in the form command line, menu driven or Graphical User Interface (GUI) are inadequate and insufficient to meet the unique requirements of the ubiquitous computing environment. The spirit of Ubiquitous Computing requires specialized natural, implicit and embedded interaction paradigm in order to support the unique requirements of interaction patterns in ubiquitous computing. In order to promote implicit Human Computer Interactions (iHCI) the context aware system, natural multimodal interfaces are the prerequisite. With the help of context aware and multimodal natural interfaces user would have the opportunity to pay less time to interact with technology that is the agenda of the implicit Human Computer Interactions (iHCI) and ultimately achieve the objective of Ubiquitous computing of minimum user involvement into technology and to enable them to focus on their tasks.