Seminar questions 1. Discuss the challenges that are faced by HCI/professionals. Many examples are expected. 2. What kind of conflicts might designers face when designing computer systems? 3. Compare and contrast HCI‚ human factors‚ user interface‚ usability‚ user needs and user oriented design. 4. Describe how various disciplines contribute to HCI. 5. “Too many developers think that they are artistic geniuses – they do not bother to follow user interface design standards or invest the effort
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The human brain has many areas that each have their own specific functions. To be able to enjoy an evening of eating pizza‚ socializing‚ and playing cards‚ the brain would have to use a few of it’s specialized areas to get you through the night successfully. The four main areas that it would have to use are the Broca’s area‚ hippocampus‚ hypothalamus‚ and occipital lobe. The first area is called the Broca’s area; which happens to be a part of the frontal lobe linked to speech production. The Broca’s
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Applications of computers Computer is used every where in the world in every field of life. There are many applications of computer for example. 1. Science and Technology: a. Engineering Applications: Computer programs can now solve difficult problems in a fraction of the time it used to take. Computer-Aided engineering is a powerful tool and necessary for engineering design and manufacture. Nowadays‚ you no longer have to write your own software programs to use computers effectively. In
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how computers are essential in criminal justice field Computers take part in a big role in the Criminal Justice Field. So far computers have allowed us to make it accessible for witnesses to go through and look for a suspect’s picture on the screen. Computers have enabled us to be able to do DNA testing. Which now only takes the labs a short time to process‚ and finding criminals from cases 15+ years ago can now be charged for their actions. There are laptop computers in police vehicles; therefore
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Unit 2 Assignment 2: Computer Basics Review 1. Which of the following terms is the closest synonym to the term computer networking? a. Telecom 2. Ann uses her email address‚ me@here.com‚ to send an email to Bob‚ whose email address is you@there.com. The message contains a few paragraphs of text. Which of the following will be important to the process of making sure that Bob receives this email? b. Bob’s incoming email server 3. According to the chapter‚ which of the following concepts happens
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“As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world‚ it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” (Carr‚ N. 2013). These words that depict Kubrick’s dark prophecy in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey opens the mind of the viewer on the strong impact that technology has on the human brain. Nicholas Carr‚ the author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains‚” agrees with Kubrick in that although technology is
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The brain Weighs 1300-1400g Made up of about 100 billion neurons The most complex living structure in the universe The cerebral hemispheres Are the two halves of the cerebral cortex Although they appear to be separated by a deep grove (the longitudinal fissure) they are actually connected by the corpus callosum They receive messages from and control the opposite side of the body The corpus callosum Is the strand or bridge of nerve tissue that connects the left and right hemispheres
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organization of their brains are superiority in verbal tests and being able to convey emotions better due to the fact that their emotional functions are within the left and right side of the brain‚ when for men‚ the function is only in the right side. Female brains are superior in verbal tests because language skills including grammar‚ spelling‚ and writing are all housed in the left side of the brain‚ whereas in a male brain‚ the language skills are located in the front and back of the brain which makes it
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NT 1310 Unit 2. Assignment 1. Service Provider Types RBOCS (RBOC) is a term describing one of the U.S. regional telephone companies (or their successors) that were created as a result of the breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T‚ known also as the Bell System or "Ma Bell") by a U.S. Federal Court consent decree on December 31‚ 1983. The seven original regional Bell operating companies were Ameritech‚ Bell Atlantic‚ BellSouth‚ NYNEX‚ Pacific Bell‚ Southwestern Bell
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TESTING AND DESIGN Literature Review Introduction In the testing and design phase‚ the website’s design has been tested using various evaluation methods. It is very important for a website to focus on the principal of evaluation for designing a website. This section outlines the approaches that have been implemented for the evaluation of the overall website design and presents the findings and conclusions of the evaluation (refer to page). This will explain the connection of the implementation
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