A recent article on Arstechnica discusses a recent study performed by Psychology Department of North Carolina State University, that showed users have a tendancy to do what ever it takes to get rid of a dialog box to get back to their task at hand. Most of them would click ok or yes, minimize the dialog, or close the dialog, regardless ...
After reading a StackoOverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182112/funny-loading-statements-to-keep-users-amused, I was really intrigued to ponder upon this question "Can humor cut down on response time?" In a page loading lots of data, instead of just "please wait" or "loading data", can a humorous / funny / witty mess...
A large chunk of the questions on this site are something like, "Is there a tool to convert jQuery to Prototype?" or, "Is there a way to find dead methods in my PHP codebase?". Aside from the typical answer of, "You shouldn't do that" which is entirely unhelpful, I'm looking for a framework to support these types of tasks. Here is how ...
Are there any sites out there that describe interior design principles in a really logical way? Eg, walkways should have a minimum width of xx Inches. I've done some googling, but most of the results are relatively generic (and spammy). Has there been solid research in this area that could lay the groundwork for automated assistants? ...
I have a UI problem I am trying to figure out how to make it intuitive to use. I have a list of items, that is in no order, and flat. I need to figure out a way to use DnD in javascript to allow the user to reorder them (that is easy), and to put them into a hierarchy as I have below. I don't know if I want to go with how Visual Stud...
Are standards like ISO 9241 "Ergonomics of Human System Interaction" of any relevance in the industry? Are there examples of certified software products? And would you do a certification of your software products? ...
Would I violate the HIG by showing a tab bar on my first view only? The first view also has a tableview and navigation bar at the top. Once the user selects a row, it goes to another tableview and no tab bar. The navigation bar is still at the top and the user can go back. Clicking a row from here displays the detail view. In summary...
Is there an existing Objective-C library for dealing with human readability of object counts, file sizes, dates, time durations and so on? (and based on Cocoa's Foundation framework?) In other words, given an NSDate, NSNumber, NSTimeInterval etc. or an NSArray of objects; is there a library for constructing a string representation that ...
I have a PickerView for choosing time. For example, the user can choose 5 hours and 10 minutes. I should use one picker view to display two row... or I should separate to two picker view, in the middle, I use a label "hour", and "minute". Which UI design is better? and why? thx you. ...
Is there a decent eye tracking package to replace the mouse for code editing? I want to free up the mouse, but keep using my keyboard for editing code. Having done some research on it, I concluded that proper eye tracking hardware is expensive. Using a webcam or high resolution video camera seems to be the most viable option. Unfortun...
I'm going to choose a topic for my thesis and it will be a HCI project. (human computer interaction). It will be a research project, and I need to think some kind of evaluation for it. I would prefer to not use human users or having to collaborate with psychologist for it. Is there any metric, or evaluation models I could use instead ?...
How can to evaluate a computerized device or a software application in the HCI field to the relation with these theories such as: "Senses (Visual, Auditory, Haptic) and cognition (short term and long term memory)" and based on the context where the device is used? Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks ...
I have volunteered to give a one hour lunchtime briefing at my workplace to our user experience team. I have a passion and love for human factors and user interface design and have had my hand in it for entire (albeit short) career. The problem I am having is it has been very difficult for me to decide how to focus this discussion so t...
Please note, I'm not asking how to implement or code a multi-column list. There are two ways to sort multi-column lists: horizontal and vertical. Many of the Microsoft System.Web.UI.WebControls have a RepeatDirection property that offers these two options. I'm sure other frameworks also offer these direction options. Below are sampl...
I have a text field which is validated whenever it loses focus. I want to be able to indicate that the value invalid during input so the user has the opportunity to correct their mistake before explicitly moving focus away from the box and triggering validation. I have seen various implementations, including placing a red border round t...
Is there a favored audio level that one should equalize their audio assets for playback on an iOS device? Twenty, 50% or 66% of max volume? We're building a game that has a variety of sounds for alerts, sound effects and voice overs and we're trying to figure out a good baseline to tune it for. I can't seem to find any documentati...
What exactly are Novel Interaction Techniques, in the context of Human Computer Interaction and Computer Graphics? I have some confusion in mind regarding this, can someone explain with examples? Thanks. ...