Friday, November 11, 2011

week 3 - by Leng Cheok Kuan

This week lecture talk about the problem of HCI and context of human and computer.
Human of information processing is about memory, perception, motor skills and problem solving. Other than that, language, communication and interaction are the aspects of language which are syntax, pragmatics, body language and others. The ergonomics, health, furniture, lighting, design for disabled are the relationship to environment. Hardware, software are the input and output devices. The basic software is architecture and technique for interacting with human and interaction style.

Expressive Interfaces
The expressive interface is color, icons, sound, graphical element + animation to make interface appealing. For example, building a relationship between the user and machine , to making it more natural and human-like.

Error Messages

“The application world has unexpectedly quit due to a type 2 error.”
Why not instead:
“The application has expectedly quit due to poor coding in the operating system”
The second error message is feeling like friendlier.

Supporting Anthropomorphism

Reeves and Naas (1996) found that computers that _atter + praise
users in education software program have positive impacts.

“Your question makes an important and useful distinction. Great job!”

Students were more willing to continue with exercises with this kind of feedback.

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