Where Human Meets Machine
I have to agree with doane paper, Microsoft’s new touchschreen interface, Surface, may well be the future of human computer interaction, but it has an “old school” design flaw…straining the neck to look down at the screen is not ergonomic! What were they thinking?
[tags]microsoft surface[/tags]
It is often said by HCI experts and interaction designers that good design is good ergonomics. It has also been found that products that look better are easier to use.
This Hello Kitty mouse misses the target on both design and ergonomics. Ergonomics does not equal cute!
[tags]hello kitty, HCI, interaction design[/tags]
EasyDesktopYoga has some great videos for simple stretches and exercises you can do right at your desk. This is a great way to take a break and relax, which can prevent injuries and workday stress.
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[tags]office yoga, workplace stretches[/tags]
I just had to repost this from History of the Button:
So funny.
[tags]history of the button[/tags]
Via UIScape:
Researchers from the National Research Council of Canada have created VoiceCode, an application that allows computer programmers to dictate program code to their computer, with virtually no need to touch the keyboard.
VoiceCode can learn and adapt to the ways that computer programmers abbreviate such names, and match a full spoken phrase with its likely [...]
Callpod solves the problem of messy jumbled charger cords (like mine).
 Phil Haack the software programmer says:
At the end of an average eight-hour workday, the fingers have walked 16 miles over the keys and have expended energy equal to the lifting of 1 1/4 tons. -DataHand
It’s unbelievable to me that a company would pay a developer $60-$100k in salary, yet cripple him or her with terrible [...]
Interesting article today in the San Francisco Chronicle THE EVOLUTION OF INPUT
Overall, the field of ergonomics is becoming a vast and confusing space, dominated by the likes of Kensington, Microsoft and the Swiss company Logitech.
Ergonomic office products is a crowded market that will be very difficult to break into for a new player like Euro [...]