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Friday 18 February 2011

How HCI has changed us and the way we live

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No one is missing out including disability people. Disability people can now efficiently use many kinds of technologies. Some technologies even allowed disability people to fly a plane, and that technology is fly by wire. Fly by wire is a electronic interface which allows automatic signal sent by the aircraft’s computer to perform function without the pilot’s input. Therefore, even if the pilot is blind, he can still fly a plane using fly by wire.
Obesity
There is a connection between technology and childhood obesity. In today’s world we have many electronic gadgets such as television and computer which have become very popular. Even though it makes out life much easier than before but the negative sides to it is that it is leaving us with a little time to enjoy the nature and the outdoor and does not seems to move that much as we are having our eyes glued to the computer and television screen.
Addiction
Now a day people are becoming more addicted by technology especially portable technology which they can take with them anywhere. The result of it is people spend less time in socialising with their friends and family. Addiction to portable technology also causes more car accident as some people use it when they are driving.
Is it just too easy?
There is a possibility that technology could make us thicker as people now have many different gadgets that serves as their memory. Some people could not even be bothered to remember their phone number. However, it can prevent ‘information overload’ as there are many things for us to remember in our life such as our password (which is not a very good idea if we use the same password for everything), pin numbers, license plates, bank information etc.
Does it make us smarter?
I personally don’t think that new technologies make us any smarter or thicker. However, I think new technology allows us to learn more than ever before as we can now just go into Google and search for almost anything that we want to know about. I also believe that it allows us to reach our goal faster.