HCI Summary

HCI has had a dramatic effect on the way people lives their lives in this generation, for example there are new type of technology which is supposedly taken over our lives, but I believe that this statement is false. In the case of virtual reality people believe that it will become the new reality which we live in, because it creates a new life for everyone even disabled users, they will now be able to live a normal life without any disabilities. Also it has created most of the money that is produced now a days, 100 years ago people made money from selling things such as animals and weapons, but now people can make money very easily they can just sell new types of technology and the selling price of a product is a lot more than what it costs to actually create the product, this is how companies make money. HCI has had a positive effect on culture, economy and society, it has create new ideas and products making today a better and more advanced place to live in, but also it has had a negative effect for example, it has been pinned to the increase in obesity levels and had also been said to create more violence, but this is caused by the more life-like video games on the market.

I believe that HCI will affect the future massively, in both a good way and in a bad way, for example new improved types of product will be created that will take the world to a new level of technology and seem brilliant, but to create these types of products it will cost a lot of resources putting the planet in a bad way, it will cost lots of money to get the new products perfect and probably most of the planets resources emphasising Global warming problems. Also people believe that in the future the obesity levels will increase because people won’t have to do anything, for example people have remote control which can do anything in the household, in the future this will be at a more advanced stage so eventually you will not have to move to do things such as open the fridge or cook some food. I believe that in the future product will be created that can show a person’s vital signs on a handheld system.

The Impact of HCI on Culture

Speed up inputs

The impact that fast inputs will have on economy are:  It will make shopping in store faster, and more efficient for the user. This makes buying products easier, which means more money will be spent because it will take less time. However to get this sort of technology and mass produce it to every shopping centre in a country will cost a lot of money. This will also make a difference to a disabled user it will make it easier for them to use things and they wouldn’t feel like they are holding people up. It will make shopping easier and faster so that they don’t feel like they are holding up the queue.

Reduce complexity of input

The impact complexity of input has on economy at the moment is that if a product is hard to use then people are less likely to use it or buy it, making the company lose money. However if all products were made as user friendly and accessible to everyone then the company is more likely to make money from it. If a product is made to be as simple as possible, people are not going to find it hard to use which makes the product stand out more than others. This will affect the economy by making the product easy to use meaning more people will buy it creating more money for the companies.

Text readers:

The impact a text reader will have on economy will be: It creates access to disabled users who cannot read text but need to hear it instead. This will create a separate business dedicated to the production of software that will help disabled users, for example products such as speech to text recognition software. This will create an income for the businesses, and their target audience are the disabled.

Automatic judgement of output/ Increase automation

The impact this will have on economy is that it will help big businesses keep the money they make by not having to pay wages to workers, but this will also affect the employees, they may lose their jobs or may have their pays cut. Overall it has helped the economy in a general sense but has affected everyone who is working in the business being taken over by automation. On the other hand the economy saves money through having no employees. They make products cheaper so they can sell them cheaper also the products overall cost less to produce making a profit when they sell it. Economy loses money because people haven’t got enough money to spend on things because of little jobs around thanks to the increase in automation.

Voice input

The impact voice input software has on the economy is that it has created another type of market specified for the disabled user trying to make life as easy as possible for them.  It helps them understand what’s going on and it can sometimes even give them a popular social life this is because to become popular people think it is cool to have to new products. Also if the software is as simple and as user friendly as possible it will be popular and the business will make money. This will affect the economy as a whole because it has made communication between everyone in the world possible, which means more people will buy it increasing the income to the country.

Thought input

The impact this has on the economy has made it so that you are able to access things with your mind and not anything else. This will be good for the economy because it’s also creating products for the disabled creating a new type of market which make the disabled interact with everyday life. The overall effect this had on the economy is it hasn’t really boosted the economy because it’s still in production, but when the product becomes cheaper then it may cause an impact on the global economy

Mobile Communication

Mobile communication is, communication on the move, thus making it a popular product for everyone one by making communication even easier. The impact mobile communication has made on economy is massive. It has become extremely popular in the world today, and it has created a massive rally between businesses, to see which one becomes the most popular. To do this the companies try and make their products seem the best that’s around. They find what the customer wants by doing a survey and then try to incorporate the opinions and improvements into the product to make it as user-friendly as possible; this will then boost the popularity of the product making more people buy it thus boosting the economy.

The Impact of HCI on the Economy

Speed up inputs

The impact that fast inputs will have on economy are:  It will make shopping in store faster, and more efficient for the user. This makes buying products easier, which means more money will be spent because it will take less time. However to get this sort of technology and mass produce it to every shopping centre in a country will cost a lot of money. This will also make a difference to a disabled user it will make it easier for them to use things and they wouldn’t feel like they are holding people up. It will make shopping easier and faster so that they don’t feel like they are holding up the queue.

Reduce complexity of input

The impact complexity of input has on economy at the moment is that if a product is hard to use then people are less likely to use it or buy it, making the company lose money. However if all products were made as user friendly and accessible to everyone then the company is more likely to make money from it. If a product is made to be as simple as possible, people are not going to find it hard to use which makes the product stand out more than others. This will affect the economy by making the product easy to use meaning more people will buy it creating more money for the companies.

Text readers:

The impact a text reader will have on economy will be: It creates access to disabled users who cannot read text but need to hear it instead. This will create a separate business dedicated to the production of software that will help disabled users, for example products such as speech to text recognition software. This will create an income for the businesses, and their target audience are the disabled.

Automatic judgement of output/ Increase automation

The impact this will have on economy is that it will help big businesses keep the money they make by not having to pay wages to workers, but this will also affect the employees, they may lose their jobs or may have their pays cut. Overall it has helped the economy in a general sense but has affected everyone who is working in the business being taken over by automation. On the other hand the economy saves money through having no employees. They make products cheaper so they can sell them cheaper also the products overall cost less to produce making a profit when they sell it. Economy loses money because people haven’t got enough money to spend on things because of little jobs around thanks to the increase in automation.

Voice input

The impact voice input software has on the economy is that it has created another type of market specified for the disabled user trying to make life as easy as possible for them.  It helps them understand what’s going on and it can sometimes even give them a popular social life this is because to become popular people think it is cool to have to new products. Also if the software is as simple and as user friendly as possible it will be popular and the business will make money. This will affect the economy as a whole because it has made communication between everyone in the world possible, which means more people will buy it increasing the income to the country.

Thought input

The impact this has on the economy has made it so that you are able to access things with your mind and not anything else. This will be good for the economy because it’s also creating products for the disabled creating a new type of market which make the disabled interact with everyday life. The overall effect this had on the economy is it hasn’t really boosted the economy because it’s still in production, but when the product becomes cheaper then it may cause an impact on the global economy

Mobile Communication

Mobile communication is, communication on the move, thus making it a popular product for everyone one by making communication even easier. The impact mobile communication has made on economy is massive. It has become extremely popular in the world today, and it has created a massive rally between businesses, to see which one becomes the most popular. To do this the companies try and make their products seem the best that’s around. They find what the customer wants by doing a survey and then try to incorporate the opinions and improvements into the product to make it as user-friendly as possible; this will then boost the popularity of the product making more people buy it thus boosting the economy.

The impact of HCI on Society

Mobile Phones: The impact a mobile phone will have on society will be, things such as. Easy communication, for example texting and phone calls from anywhere. However they do come with some problems such as, radiation intake.

Games controllers: Playing games can help improve dexterity and hand-eye coordination. They provide mental stimulation and promote social interaction (in multiplayer games for example). Competition, when playing against friends for example, is a useful motivator and can help users exceed their own expectations of their abilities. However, gaming does come with consequences such as addiction, and maybe even death. If someone was to get so addicted to playing a game and then have it taken away from them, it could cause masses of problems for the person.

Interactive changing rooms: interactive changing rooms are changing rooms, which allow people to take picture and compare items, to make it easier to decide on something. This has also become a very popular type a product, it helps people to compare and choose products, but not only that it can also send the images taken to other people to get their opinions. This will affect society because it makes it easier to shop by helping people with decision making thus making shopping quicker.

Flexible phones: The impact on flexible phone is they will make it easy for user to communicate and look after the phone. However it will be more vulnerable to robbery and damage it will also cost more to produce and more to buy it as a product. This will affect society because it will make communication more in depth and easier.  

Improved usability: improved usability is the way products are made to be as easy to use as possible for every possible user. This will affect HCI because of faults in the company, if there is a design fault in a product people will find it difficult to use and it can cause accidents. However it can also create better things such as improvement to the product making it more users friendly. This will affect society by making all things easier to use and work with.

Touch screens: The impact touch screens have on society has become massive; everyone is demanding a touch screen because, they are easy to use, beneficial, and the latest product to be released. However they can cause problems such as, faults that can’t be fixed and hard to type words and numbers if the buttons are too small. This will affect society because it will make everyday things work easier. Touch screens have also affected the disabled, it has created new product which disabled users can use to communicate to other people all over the world, and it has also given them a chance to do things such as fly planes. And finally touch screens have also limited how germs can spread in the medical industry, it is easier to clean a touch screen compared to things like keyboards and buttons.

Input/output: This has affected the society by making it easier to interact with mobile phones, for example phone now are supposed to be standardising the charges and giving each phone a 3.5mm headphone socket. However this will make the company lose money on things like a charger or headphones.

User friendliness: If all products were not user friendly it would make it very difficult for people to use the product, this is why companies do research to find out the easiest way to use a product, and how they can make it more user friendly. This has affected society by making products easier to use, thus making them more appealing, so more people are going to buy the product.

Domestic appliance displays: domestic appliance displays are household systems that allow users to access things around the house from a single point for example opening the curtains on the other side of the room; you can just press a button on a remote control and open up the curtain without actually touching them. This has affected society greatly, without these people would have to more around and do things manually, now they can do thing with a push of a button on an easy to use domestic appliance display.

Remote control: A remote control has expanded vastly over the years. Now you can control UAV’s in the RAF without leaving you workstation. However this type of technology is very expensive to produce and you will need to go through special training course to learn to fly a remote control drone. This will affect society by making it easier to use and control objects. Remote controls have helped the disabled by making them able to do thing that normally they wouldn’t be able to. However this may have affected the way people live in today’s society it has raised the levels of laziness.

Data Logging: Data logging is a good way of storing things that may help you later on; it has impacted society by becoming affordable to the average person; however it has also become a large problem because it means people are less likely to learn thing because they can just reference it from an internet source. This will affect society by making it easier to log data.

Fly by wire: A fly by wire is a type of system that controls the plane by connecting it to another computer on land, and at the destination. The computers communicate with each other to tell the plane where it’s going. However a pilot can also fly the plane, they can pilot the plane normally but the system will only allow the pilot to fly to its maximum strains. This will affect society because it means that flights across long distances are more likely to get there and safely. Fly by wire has affected the disabled by making it possible for them to fly planes without worrying about crashing it, fly by wire uses a piece of technology which fly’s the plane automatically.

Virtual reality: Virtual reality (VR) is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds. It’s made to be very simple to use, so that the user will get the full effect of virtual reality. This will affect society because it could eventually end up people having meetings from their homes. This has affected the disabled users by giving them a new reality in which they can live disable free.

Heads up display: A heads up display is a display that a user can see from any angle to make the display easier to use. For example in a car, a heads up display is used to make it easier for a user to see how fast they are going, and the amount of fuel and oil the car has. It can also be used in planes and on most vehicles. This will affect society by making controlling vehicles easier and safer.