Lightning strikes, lasting less than a half-millionth of a second, often scorch the skin but don't cause internal burns. Just as crucial, most of the electricity in a lightning bolt does not pass through the body. Rather, it dissipates over the skin in what's known as a flashover. Vernon Cooray, a lightning scientist at Uppsala University in Sweden, explains the phenomenon by contrasting the ways a human body and a tree react when struck.
Human-computer interaction (HCI) is the study and planned design of human and computer activities. HCI uses productivity, safety and entertainment to support and fulfill human-computer activities and is applied to various types of computer systems, including air traffic control, nuclear processing, offices and computer gaming.
This paper tries to briefly summarize many of the important research developments in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technology. By research, I mean exploratory work at universities and government and corporate research labs (such as Xerox PARC) that is not directly related to products.