Areas of Human Technology and Human-Computer Technology

From a calculator that weighed twenty-seven tons to a slim, multi-purposed object that could fit right into people’s pockets, the development of technology has revolutionized lives all around the world in just over fifty years. The Silicon Valley in California has become the center of technological innovation and home to hundreds of tech corporations that would make technology practical and affordable. Today, technology is found everywhere in people’s everyday lives, with more functions and computing power than what would have ever been imagined in the early twentieth century. Vast amounts of information lie at the click of a mouse as a result of the evolution of electronics in the mid-1900s. Through the new ideas of scientists, such as Robert

Technical documents, as is the homepage of Claflin University’s website, always have a target audience that dictates how information is structured for presentation. After some research, I found that university websites are mostly visited by prospective students and their parents; the target audience. These visitors’ visits are prompted by the need to complete some exploratory task such as finding out the cost of tuition or if a major is offered at the university. The homepage of a website sets the standard by which these visitors will hold the entire website, demanding that it meets the three (3) measures of excellence I will explore; accessibility, professional appearance, and clarity.

Not only is the website generally easy to use, but the navigation elements makes a visitor’s process even easier. The first element a visitor will hopefully utilize is the “I am a…” dropdown box which provides the options of “Current Student, Faculty / Staff Member, Parent, or Research Partner” (University). These links redirect the main page to whichever page the visitor desires. This saves the visitors’ time and patience because they do not have to search through various links to find this specific page. Another navigation element that helps save a visitor’s time is the “Search” box. Whether the visitor is a prospective student hoping to learn about different housing options or a parent concerned about their child’s safety, the search box provides various links to web pages regarding this information. When a visitor is redirected to a new page they can easily return to the home page by clicking on the UAH emblem in the upper left corner. While the website does not provide a link to the top of a web page, the web pages are short enough that a visitor can easily scroll to the top by themselves. With multiple navigation tools, a visitor can quickly and effectively find what they are

Users need to limit their time in cyberspace. Eye safety, repetitive stress syndrome, and sound ergonomic practices are issues that need to be addressed in a new technological world. Beyond the physical issues are those of the psychological issues that are becoming more prevalent such as Internet

Knowing the demographics of the clients we wish to seek, behaviors, surfing practices, and attitudes are key for success. The navigational ability of the website, choice of languages, useful images, and ease of finding information are all necessary with

In MHCI+D Program is composed of exceptional individuals of diverse backgrounds, I look forward to contributing to the program as one of the graduates using my sufficient professional and academic experience. Since June 2017, I have worked as a User Experience QA Test Engineer at Samsung JnD Solutions, Inc. This job provides me a great amount of time and opportunities to explore numerous interactive designs of Samsung mobile devices: smartphone, tablet, wearable, accessories, and etc. Through UI testing, I have closely monitored the trends of human-computer designs and noted how they have changed to meet consumer demand over a period of time. Most importantly, this position has allowed me to critique the UX design of recent technologies and consider the pros and cons of advancement and implementation. For example, I have been experimenting with UX/UI on Gear S3 Frontier, a wearable device, which has more functions than previous designs. By implementing more advanced functions such as voice message and independent calling, it successfully generates

For this report a human-machine system had to be chosen to analyse. The chosen product is a mobile phone, more specifically a Nokia 6220 (as pictured below). This product is relevant to this project because it encompasses many of the different topics that will be considered and when

Team A has been working together to create a list of essential design criteria for evaluating the Berry’s Bug Busters Website, a virtual organization. The team also completed a comparative review of two sites that have similar audience and purpose to the Berry’s Bug Busters Website. The intended audience for this website is people over the age of 18 that find themselves with a pest problem. There are no specific demographics related to the service offered. These two sites are Orkin and FreedomPest, which provide some useful examples of ways to improve upon the curent design of Berry’s Bug Busters Website. The following is the list of design features:

Members of society understand, or at least have heard someone in their lives say, technology is becoming a distraction to the human population rather than an advancement. As technology has progressed, it has increasingly become a larger and more intergraded part of our everyday lives. Americans think that technology is huge today, but technology will be even more advanced in several decades. There are some clear positives to technology, such as the ease of long distances communication and the accessibility of entertainment. Despite those useful aspects and many others, there are many people that think technology has a negative effect on human interaction. The main concern many people are discussing is whether technology has negatively affected how humans socially interact. If those concerns are truly a problem, how can society fix them without stopping the advancement in technology.

Born in 1999 when the CancerNet web necessitated a re-gig, the exclusive usability.gov site has never looked back, but has grown by leaps in stature and popularity; to be regarded has an exclusive source of information for government.

Albert Einstein once exclaimed, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction.” His brilliance shows in today’s era since now, technology predominates ordinary functions and paralyzes the ability for humans to ponder and generate originality. Not one individual is thus required to rigorously search for information or create ideas that are not simply available on the world web. This excessive attachment to the devices that deliver access to such a broad spectrum of information is evidently destroying human potential to excel within the realms of communication and etc. Smartphones, in particular, spark significant concern since they are portable electronic devices with the functionality of numerous gadgets combined. Researchers are concerned about the tendency of people to merely replace experiences in reality with those of the virtual world within their phones. This matter holds relevance within today’s society since a notable percentage of humans own smartphones and the activities which they participate in with the device stretches from photography to games and to mere pastime rituals. Although technology allows innovation and is dire to numerous practices that benefit humanity; excessive dependence can cripple society in ways that include communicative disability and mental disorders that can thrive in effect to such an attachment.

The Human-computer interaction (HCI) has evolved through the years, which has set the stage for users to participate in the interaction design process. With the participation of end users, corporations have listened to their issues and concerns in developing a user friendly product to accommodate most, if not all of their preferences and suggestions. This paper will define and discuss the Human-computer interaction (HCI), Jakob Nielson’s 7th heuristic, and introduce three interactive items correlating between the two. Applying the HCI and Neilson’s first heuristic with the three interactive items from the user’s point of view and experience will produce an applicable feedback to focus on further development of future components of similar stature.

There are certain technology programs that are emerging in the software industry that have key uses. These current technologies are those that surround the human-computer interface. As a software engineer, I will use this paper to describe the term “Haptic Feedback,” its key uses and why it is needed. In addition, I will compare the various types of human memory mentioning their impact on the human-computer interface. I will also give a detailed description of the potential outcomes of not making use of consistency in the human computer interface, summarize and explain the steps of user-centric design process and the role of human motion in the human computer interface.

We are heading towards an electronic future(era of electronics) where information will be accessible at our fingertips, wherever and whenever wanted. Some of the communication and computing equipment required to provide this immediate and intimate access to information will be incorporated into our fit out. Just as a glance at present day’s wristwatch saves a trip time to the nearby clock, a glance at future’s wristwatch will replace finding a terminal to check e-mail..

Abstract—Computation-intensive mobile applications are more in demand with the evolution in computer technology, while the computation capacities of mobile devices are limited. Computation offloading is a challenging method that sends heavy computation task to the resourceful computers and obtains results from them, provided computation offloading decision should balance system 's benefits and costs. This paper presents the survey of various such computation offloading decisions algorithms highlighting their objectives and features, followed with their comparative analysis based on parameters i.e. energy efficiency, performance, time complexity, overheads, application support and their future scope.