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Usability. Basil Zuber Paul. DUIM. Users Users and context are not separable? Should talk about demographic/social groupings Context The idea of situation can be included in the context Task Purpose Difficult to know user tasks / purposes clearly Action
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Usability Basil Zuber Paul DUIM
Users Users and context are not separable? Should talk about demographic/social groupings Context The idea of situation can be included in the context Task Purpose Difficult to know user tasks / purposes clearly Action Interaction is more suitable than the concept of action Further Point: Does this design fit with Object oriented Desgn forms? Usability
Post Information Age • Central Theme: the way metatags online structure your access to information • There is a HCI requirement to help people target information, particularly information agents, AI applications • Will new forms of opposition to corporate dominance on the web, form ,and to what extent will education be assimilated into corporate ideology? • Will Lyotard’s dystopian vision of post modern fragmentation of knowledge become a “personalised” reality? (Zuber) • Or can Nardy’s (Information Ecologies) idea of “cobbled streets and alleyways” survive on the web?