Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age

UltimaGuy writes "This Editorial describes 8 reasons why HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is in its stone age. It laments about screen corners, filesystem, GUI Design and also 'spatialness'. "

I need to read more carefully

[Anonymous Coward]

for a second there I was wondering how an acid could have an age. ;)

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The ideas were ok...

[RandomCoil]

But I don't trust documents on "usability" that employ

"<<" and ">>"

in non-standard ways. Anyway, the first reply to the post was, perhaps, the most appropriate:

This blog is awesome! If you get a chance you may want to visit this discount cat furniture site, it's pretty awesome too!

HCI

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a sign of the End Times when a front-page story on /. actually explains what an acronym stands for.

Re:computers: still not for lay people

[mrchaotica]

You know, it's funny -- I haven't noticed any programs doing that. It must just be a Windows thing...

Screaming for a joke

[saddino]

I bet you my bunny the former Soviet union could have designed a better operating system GUI than any of the software vendors of today.

Yes, but then the User Interface would be controlling us.

Re:The largest key

[angrist]

imagine that, making something that you use often larger and thus easier to find

Funny, I seem to get a lot of emails about supplements for that kind of thing.

Re:Why does /. even link to this?

[Otter]

You sir, have failed. You just sent it to a blind musician, not a deaf one.

I think the assumption is that Stevie Wonder will then forward it to Beethoven.

Re: /. : no longer for the informed?

[Titus B. Otch]

Article? What article?! This is a blog site. We dohn neede no steenkeen blawgs.

/., oh, how the mighty have fallen. Get me some real news from real websites - with flashy ad pop ups and real tech articles having ball-buster computer acronymns and discourse, requiring a dictionary as you read.

Hey, give this guy a chance!

[Vorondil28]

<sarcasm>

I have to say, this man's logic is undeniable. He develops several concise, poignant ideas that are

far from just being his own opinion and very much apply to all of us! I just can't wait to see the masterful GUI this fine man is developing!

</sarcasm>

What's that?
He's just ignorantly bitching?
Oh...

Skip the article, here's the lowdown.

[GMFTatsujin]

"Interfaces suck because they don't read my mind."

That's what a college education will buy you.

Re:Sorry...I'm not seeing it.

[Anonymous Coward]

By the way, did you know that a)

Stevie Wonder is blind, not deaf, and b) 'shrink' is not synonymous with 'crop'?

For my man Stevie, shrink is synoymous with crop.

Re:'useless' screen corners

[doxology]

I was going to respond to this, but I tried clicking in the upper right hand corner and the window closed.

Re:Console.

[Minna Kirai]

    I bet i can type out a simple command faster than most people can move their mouse to the corner of the screen.

Really? You seriously would prefer to play a game like Half-Life 2 by repeatedly typing "/shoot shotgun @ headcrab;/shoot shotgun @ zombie;/shoot laser @ cyborg-alien-police-thing;" ?

Let's see how well you last in deathmatch with that technique! Even if we give you tab-completion, the odds will be against you.

Re:Sorry...I'm not seeing it.

[JWW]

And besides, why send an image to Stevie Wonder anyway????

Re:Why does /. even link to this?

[RackinFrackin]

Ray Charles could deliver it quicker.

Re:Ultimate HCI format

[Aumaden]

No, no, it's:

1. Find a computer geek
2. Yell and beat the computer geek into submission to do your computer work.
3. The geek does the interfacing with the PC and not you.
4. Outsource the geek's job!
5. ...profit!!!

hesrightonhisthoughtsrethespacebar

[kencurry]

thatthingisuselessImgoingtoquitusingitfromnowon

Soviet Russia GUI?

[The_Honkey]

The article seems to think that the USSR would design a better GUI than the ones we have now. At least it didn't say: "In Soviet Russia, GUIs design YOU!"

Re:Sorry...I'm not seeing it.

[Haeleth]

Say Tip a quarter to the right,

And your computer promptly donates 25 cents to the Republican party.

All together now: natural language is NOT a good interface.

Re:Screaming for a joke

[Zombie]

Well, isn't that what User Interface means? The computer Interfacing with the User to make him do things?