Out of the frying pan....
Good morning everyone, thought i better get started on this blog thing. Anyways, I was thinking, to fully investigate HCI should I limit myself to computers or computerised technology? I thought i would take a look and see some of the bad interfaces used in common day use stuff. Take my cooker for example, a prime modern piece of kit (or so my landlord would have us believe).
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See the pictures above, it is far from clear which switch you have to turn to activate a hob. The only way to really know is to actually turn on the hob. The light then turns on, but it begs the question why have 4 LEDs on each knob if only 1 ever turns on, this is a bad case of human interface if there ever was one.



- posted by Adam @ 10:59 am 0 comments