P1 - Describe the impact of HCI on society, economy and culture.
Economy
The productivity
per individual would almost certainly have increased along with the evolution
of the GUI. This is because not everyone will have the capacity to learn and
remember how to use CLI, even with a list of commands it can be time consuming
and difficult to inexperienced users. However, with a mainstream GUI such as
Windows you can be taught how to use it quickly and easily and have quick
access to important applications or most used programs, for example, pinning
them to the Windows 7 task bar This has impacted the economy by
bringing computing, and the advantages they bring (improved storage, better
communication etc) to businesses, who then use them to increase profit i.e by
selling online etc.
Computers in an office setting.
Another way HCI
has impacted the economy is through automation. Automation is the process of a
computer completing a task without human input. Automation has impacted the
economy by allowing computers to complete tasks which may have to have been
done by humans, which you'd have to pay, and the maintenance of a computer
would most likely be cheaper than a human workers wages and can also be quicker
and reduce the amount of mistakes.
This video shows a computer performing the tasks of making candy canes through automation, this task used to be a job performed by groups of people.
http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/t-ase/ This website contains some information on automation.
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