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– Effectively
– Efficiently
– Enjoyably
Jan 6, 2011 IAT 334 7
Goals of System Engineering
Functionality
• Tasks and sub-tasks to be carried out
Reliability
• Maintaining trust in the system
Standardization, integration, consistency and
portability
Schedules and budgets
• Adhering to timelines and expense
• Human factors principles and testing reduces costs
Personality
Differences
Physical Users with
Abilities and Disabilities
Workplaces
Cognitive Elderly
and Perceptual Users
Abilities Cultural
and International
Diversity
g VCR
g Mouse
g Phone
g Copier
g Car
g Airline reservation
g Air traffic control
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g Ideas:
– wall-sized displays, video disks, AI in
interfaces (agents), speech recognition,
multimedia with hypertext
g Late ‘70’s
– Apple II
– Z-80 CP/M
– IBM PC
g Text and command based
g Word processing
g Spreadsheets!
Bill Atkinson’s Polaroids of the first pull-down menu prototype - circa 1979
source: folklore.org
g Commercial flop
– $15k cost
– closed architecture
– lacking key functionality (spreadsheet)
g Failure
g 3D Audio cues:
– Interaural Time Difference
– Interaural Intensity Difference
– Pinnae filtering
– Body filtering
g Where important?
g Predictive
g Quantitative
– Time to perform
– Time to learn
– Number and type of errors
– Time to recover from errors
g Approximations
g Three “types”
– Short-term memory
Conscious thought, calculations
– Intermediate
Storing intermediate results, future plans
– Long-term
Permanent, remember everything ever
happened to us
– WM: NominalRange
• Capacity: 7 chunks [5 - 9] chunks
• Decay Time: 7 seconds [5 - 226] seconds
• Access Time: 70ms [25 - 170] ms