human–computer interaction
Field studying how people interact with computers, growing from Licklider's call for interfaces that make humans and machines effective partners.
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Man-Computer Symbiosis, paper by J. C. R. Licklider
In March 1960, J. C. R. Licklider, then at Bolt Beranek and Newman, published 'Man-Computer Symbiosis' in IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, articulating a vision in which humans and computers would collaborate interactively in real time to solve problems neither could address alone.