The Impact of HCI on Society
The Impact of HCI on Society
Mobile phone
In today’s society mobile phones has become essential for people communication. 9/10 people in the UK will have one. Through Modern technology, mobile phone has become essential form everyday life. The main purpose for mobile phones when it was first introduce was to make calls, now you can access your emails, browse the web, and play multi-media. Without doubt mobile phones have become a mainstream product in today’s market. The impact of mobile phones on society is massive.
This is where the plane follows the command, when you input the data into the computer system. The make it easier for pilot, and gives less work to do.
Touch screens
Touch screen is becoming more and more popular on today’s market, e.g. in big supermarkets like Tesco’s and Asda. They have it so that the customer s can do self check; rather than wait in a long queue with a couple of items, you can do self checkout. Also it is used in games console and portable devices such as satellite navigation, PDA, IPAD etc.
Games consoles
Gaming has changed the way that people have fun, and made simulations more realistic. It improves hand-eye coordination and makes multi-player more social. Also it’s more user friendly as almost anybody can use it e.g. Wii.
This technology is made to make people more involved in with there surroundings. The developer (nokia) has called this type of technology morph.
This shows that now disabled people can now use computers and other electronic systems through voice recognition software.
Input devices are electronic components that plugs straight in to the computer, such as a microphone or a mouse. Output devices are things like monitor (to display the image the computer is processing) or speakers (to project the sound the computer is processing).
User friendliness means that users less able user can now use computers easier that than they use to. This is because computer manufacturers are now designing computers and operating system for everyday use, giving the human user less to do.
Domestic Appliances are technological thing that hep people do the house work. This makes things easier and it saves time.
Data logging saves users record data manually, by recording data electronically via a device.
Head up displays
Head up displays the speed in which a car is travelling, also it beeps is the car is travelling over the speed limit.
People use it to give a different feel of a different place, also it make feel it makes they imagination go wild. They are often used in games consoles or theme park rides. Kids
The Impact of HCI on Economy
Text readers
Text reader is software that converts electronic text to a digital voice sound into a digital format. They had big impacted on the world’s economy it big on the simple because it fast ability to analize text project in a digital sound format. This means that people how can’t speak can now enter text in to a device and a text reader will project it foe them.
Automatic judgement of output
Automation are machines that has the ability to perform human’s tasks .these sort of machines are increasingly push in market; this is because has the ability to handle a task faster that the average human. As a result many people are losing there jobs e.g. in big supermarkets like Tesco’s and Asda, they have it so that the customer s can do self check; rather than wait in a long queue with only a couple of items, now you can do self checkout. In third world countries there will be a bigger impact as a lot people works in factories
Voice input 1 is voice recognition software used in operating system and electronic devices.These types of software’s are very helpful for disabled people, which mean that can now use the voice to control things.
Voice activated telephones dials the person that you want call, you just say name of the person you want to call and calls it for you. So again these are helpful for disabled people such as if you have no arms. Voice activated telephone has a big impact on the world economy, as it make it easies for the disabled or non disabled, this mean it’s popular on the market.
The thought input system is better than voice recognition it cancels ambience and background noise. This means that the computer gets a clearer input of what the human wants to transmit e.g. Stephen Harkins.
The impact HCI has had on culture
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Laptops
Laptops and pc in the world are connected through the internet through HTML code. HTML is a use by all computers to write website codes; because it’s a code used by everyone it help to bring cultures together. In the British culture more and more people are using laptops simply because of its efficiency and portability.
Mobile phones
In today’s society mobile phones has become essential for people communication. 9/10 people in the UK will have one. Through Modern technology, mobile phone has become essential form everyday life. The main purpose for mobile phones when it was first introduce was to make calls, now you can access your emails, browse the web, and play multi-media. Without doubt mobile phones have become a mainstream product in today’s market. This has a big impacted on culture as people can now communicate wirelessly and internationally too.
Mobile entertainment
Mobile entertainment is a portable of entertaining from systems such as games consoles, mobile phones, and laptops etc. This will have a big impact on culture as people are becoming more and more dependants on mobile uses. However the less fortunate countries may not get the opportunity.
Games
Gaming has changed the way that people have fun, and made simulations more realistic. It improves hand-eye coordination and makes multi-player more social. Also it’s more user friendly as almost anybody can use it e.g. Wii. Online multi-player gaming has helped culture to come together; you can play the same game with some one half ways around in your own language.
Developing nations
HCI has helped developing nations out financially. But it has mad them feel less up-to-date with world e.g. in Indonesia they can afford real telephone, so they sell them wooden ones.
Domestic appliances
Domestic Appliances are technological thing that hep people do the house work. This makes things easier and it saves time.
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