Design of everyday things Summary so far: – many so-called human errors are actually errors in design – human factors became important as human performance limitations reached when handling complex machinery You will soon know these important concepts for designing everyday things – perceived affordances – causality – visible constraints – mapping – transfer effects – idioms & population stereotypes – conceptual models – individual differences Slide deck by Saul Greenberg. Permission is granted
Premium Usability Design Causality
Eliana Dockterman’s article concerning Digital Parent Trap discusses how some want their children to have technology and some don’t. In Dockterman’s article she uses dependable evidence‚ reasoning‚ and highly academic word choices to prove a strong point about technology. First Dockterman uses dependable evidence in her article to get the readers attention to think about technology. She uses the fact “While there are dangers inherit in access to Facebook‚ new research suggests that social-networking
Premium Psychology Education Childhood
data into information. Calculations‚ queries and other operations are performed during the process stage. Output Output is information produced. The results of processing are sent to an output device such as a monitor. For example; photos from digital camera is transferred to the computer 1.4 WHAT IS AN ICT SYSTEM? An ICT system is a system where the output from the systems goes directly to a human being or into another ICT system. They are designed for and used by people
Premium Backup Computer
BOOK DESIGN Process of Book Making 1. Idea 2. Manuscript 3. Contract/ Agreement 4. Editing 5. Proofreading 6. Typesetting 7. Editing 8. Correction (book layout) 9. Page Layout 10. Editing and correction 11. Film making 12. Plat Making 13. Printing 14. Binding 15. Packaging 16. Distribution THE IMPORTANT OF BOOK DESIGN 1. Poor design can hurt sales: ‘ People Do Judge a book by its cover’ 2. Book design size of books body
Premium Book Printing
In today’s society‚ technology may be acknowledged as either being a useful tool in life to aid in one’s daily routine‚ or a detrimental item that is hurting people as it takes away time from more important matters. In the video called “Are We Digital Dummies” the concerns and advantages of living in a technological world are evidently shown. Foremost‚ the video raises concern about the takeover that technology has on the world. People are gradually moving towards having a total reliance on technology
Premium
Visual Logic can be installed from the CD that accompanies our textbook. It is a nifty tool for creating program flowcharts‚ but that is only half of the story. Until this software came along‚ flowcharts were static diagrams that outlined the flow of execution of a computer program. When a Visual Logic flowchart is done‚ you can run the program “behind” the flowchart. This is a great learning resource for budding programmers. You can even create interactive programs that allow the user to input
Premium
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG HKU SPACE Community College Associate Degree Programmes 2011-12 Course Document Course Title: Elements of Logic and Critical Thinking Course Code: C H C P 8 8 8 3 1 2 3 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 Aims and Objective 1. 2. 3. To introduce you to different formal logical systems. These logical systems can shed light on the structure of ordinary languages and can help distinguishing good reasoning from bad ones. Methods of evaluating reasoning within these systems will also be introduced
Premium Logic
PCM CODING/COMPANDING Q1. a)i) The process of quantisation introduces an error or noise component into the quantised signal. Derive an equation for the mean-squared quantisation error in terms of the quantization interval ‘a’. ii) Hence show that the peak signal-to-quantisation noise ratio (SQNR) is SQNR = ( 6n + 4.8 ) dB Where 2 n is the number of quantisation levels. b)i) Linear quantisation is used prior to binary PCM encoding of an analogue baseband signal which has
Premium Data transmission
Joshua Anderson Cyber Racism February 23‚ 2010 Instructor Roby In the reading Cyber Racism‚ the interaction of people in the digital world of the internet is thoroughly examined. The digital world opens up another channel for people across the globe to connect with each other and communicate across networks that would normally be separated by physical distance. Even though internet interaction is not face to face as one would be in the real world‚ it still produces the same things that normal
Premium Sociology Internet Communication
Digital divide is the gap that exists between those who can effectively use new information and communication tools (ICT)‚ such as the Internet‚ and those who cannot. Elderly and low-income people have been identified as two major digitally disconnected groups (Rowena Cullen 2002). Traditional family relations may be strained as Inter-generational communication is hampered and older members of the household find themselves increasingly alienated. The divide may also limit the low income group’s choices
Premium Mobile phone Poverty Internet