Throughout this chapter, we discussed how HCI applies to our lives and the bigger picture. We looked at HCI as a field of study and the history of building systems by highly accomplished professionals. We focused on the explosion of software made possible through the introduction of the internet in 1990 and discussed that HCI is a by-product of a lot of knowledge. The HCI foundations covered this chapter will have set you up to build your own HCI ethos through learning not just from me but also from all the other HCI giants that have come before us. The knowledge they have passed along has given HCI a broad set of principles that continue to grow through user research and the endless amount of software that can and will be created and improved through agile and iterative solutions.
HCI is a big field of study, and this chapter allowed us to start applying some new knowledge and follow some other thinkers that make up HCI's deep past as well as its rich and fertile future...
