Impact of HCI on Economy

As almost everyone can now access to the internet, they can use it to shops online by going in to e-commerce website such as eBay, Amazon, Tesco etc. It also allows different companies to make a deal or talk about the business’s situation over the internet using video conference. Also, more industries mean more jobs available for people.

E-commerce website - E-commerce website has enabled us to shop online and made life much easier for people with disabilities and people who live in a place where there is no access to big shops. For example, if you live in a country side and there is no Tesco in your town, you can still access to Tesco’s website and purchase anything you want by just a few click of your mouse. 

Industries – The more in industry, the more jobs available for us. However, most industries preferred to have machinery that can work constantly without having a break than to employ people because it cost less as well as products that has been produced by machine are often more accurate.

Speed up inputs – Speed up input is a high technology devices and it is able to read data automatically such as barcodes then transfer it. I believe that speed up input is very useful in today’s world as it makes thing much easier and also quicker. E.g. if there is no speed up input devices in Tesco that can read that bar code which transfer the data and calculate the price, the speed of the processing will definitely be much slower.

Reduce Complexity of input – This will make driving much safer and more comfortable. For example, parking assistance can help you to park the car, some will help you to stay in the lane help you to maintain the certain speed and warn you when there might be danger. However, the disadvantage of it is that people won’t bother to practice themselves to drive better.

Increase automation – Increase automation can affect us because the organisation will no longer need a lot of people to work for them which leads to increasing amount of unemployed people. Therefore, economy loss money because people are unemployed and does not have enough money to spend on things.

Text reader – There are now many text to speech software available in the market. It can convert any text such as word document, webpage and email into spoken word. I believe that this type of software can be a benefit to verbal learners because they are a listener and learn most when they hear or read the information out load. Therefore, they could use text reader software to read out their class note and help them with their study. Not only that text reader enables us to improve our productivity but it also helps blind people to do things efficiently and that affect to economy because the more productive employer the company have the more profit they will earn.

Automatic judgement of output – Automatic judgement of output makes things easier for human as it help them to work faster and more efficient. Therefore, it will improve their productivity, and the more productive you are the more chance you have of getting a job.

Voice output – Voice output software is opposite to text reader software. Text reader converts from text into speech while voice output software converts from speech to text. Therefore, it will increase our productivity as well as enabled blind people to interact with the computer more efficiently

Thought input – Though input is very useful especially for disable people who cannot speak and can hardly move as it will increase their chance of getting a job and earn money for themselves. Without thought input, there is nothing much that they could do.

Mobile communication – Mobile is a powerful device of economic growth. It helps the government to fight poverty in poorer countries as it will bring us together through market, social and networks. Also, the mobile broadband and network are now create thousands of jobs and improve the productivity.