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Manual to Auto (And Back Again)
Sign for drivers running trains through to Old Delhi station.
A big part of user interface design is deciding what to present to users when. Most things can delegated - either to other people or to technology. The question is what to delegate, to whom, and when. To what extent is delegation driven by efficiency? To what extent does delegation remove a sense of achievement? Does the Delhi train driver have a more enjoyable job taking care of the signalling manually? Is this a mundane task that technology can take care of? Or is this an important task that should not be left in the hands of a mere mortal?
In an increasingly automated world how to indicate changes beween automated and manual states? How to cope with exceptions to those states? How to present changes in state to us mere mortals?
Writing from Tokyo | August 3, 2006 | Permalink
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Hello,
I like your way of reasening. Thinking wheather somebody will still enjoy the job after a technical inovation, can prevent many problems in implementation
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Posted by: Davoud Taghawi-nejad at August 3, 2006 9:12 PM