In today’s digital age, humans are always interacting with each other through computers, and interacting with computers to learn more for themselves. Doug Eyman discusses this idea in his work Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric. He refers to this as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). “HCI is an interdisciplinary field that draws on psychology, cognitive science, and sociology, but is situated within computer science.” Eyman discusses the use of HCI and how it ties into digital rhetoric. I see HCI as something that draws in the use of computers to communicate while communicating with computers.
As we know, digital rhetoric describes the use of rhetorical devices in media. Eyman states, “One of the key connections between HCI and digital rhetoric is the importance of the interface – for digital rhetoric, the interface is both object and location; it serves as the point at which software, hardware, user, network the virtual and the material come together.” Digital rhetoric allows for more thought-provoking discussions and media to be made. Media would not be the same if it was all only artificial intelligence. If you think about it, all AI think the same way… because it doesn’t think. AI just gives you the bare minimum of what you asked. Unless you communicate to it that you need a response as detailed as possible, you will not get a detailed as possible response.
When communicating between two humans, they are able to say minimal things and have the other person receive it. Inputting something into a computer will output as much detail as you have given the computer initially.
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