Change is not the only constant

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Author(s):  
Patricia Wright
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Novice Users ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
New Challenges

Abstract Developments in information technology during the past 40 years have presented new opportunities for information designers and also posed new challenges. Computer controlled displays are now so ubiquitous that most people in everyday life need to interact with information shown on screens. Many of the characteristics of these readers have not changed: they forget things, get distracted, make assumptions, etc. Research has confirmed that designing an interaction style to reduce the demands made on people’s sensory and cognitive processes helps them accomplish tasks more easily. There has undoubtedly been progress, particularly with mobile devices. Graphical user interfaces and touch screens can make interactions feel intuitive, almost conversational, but interface glitches remain. These arise both from the tension inherent in designing for experienced and novice users, and from design decisions often involving people with differing priorities. The features of interfaces will continue to change but the challenge of finding ways to support people’s sensory, cognitive and conative characteristics will continue.

scholarly journals LOST IN THE CLOUD - NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEACHING GIS

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
C. J. Bellman ◽  
G. Pupedis
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

As cloud based services move towards becoming the dominant paradigm in many areas of information technology, GIS has also moved into ‘the Cloud’, creating a new opportunities for professionals and students alike, while at the same time presenting a range of new challenges and opportunities for GIS educators. Learning for many students in the geospatial science disciplines has been based on desktop software for GIS, building their skills from basic data handling and manipulation to advanced spatial analysis and database storage. Cloud-based systems challenge this paradigm in many ways, with some of the skills being replaced by clever and capable software tools, while the ubiquitous nature of the computing environment offers access and processing from anywhere, on any device. <br><br> This paper describes our experiences over the past two years in developing and delivering a new course incorporating cloud based technologies for GIS and illustrates the many benefits and pitfalls of a cloud based approach to teaching. Throughout the course, students were encouraged to provide regular feedback on the course through the use of online journals. This allowed students to critique the approach to teaching, the learning materials available and to describe their own level of comfort and engagement with the material in an honest and non-confrontational manner. Many of the students did not have a strong information technology background and the journals provided great insight into the views of the students and the challenges they faced in mastering this technology.

scholarly journals LOST IN THE CLOUD - NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEACHING GIS

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Bellman ◽  
G. Pupedis
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

As cloud based services move towards becoming the dominant paradigm in many areas of information technology, GIS has also moved into ‘the Cloud’, creating a new opportunities for professionals and students alike, while at the same time presenting a range of new challenges and opportunities for GIS educators. Learning for many students in the geospatial science disciplines has been based on desktop software for GIS, building their skills from basic data handling and manipulation to advanced spatial analysis and database storage. Cloud-based systems challenge this paradigm in many ways, with some of the skills being replaced by clever and capable software tools, while the ubiquitous nature of the computing environment offers access and processing from anywhere, on any device. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; This paper describes our experiences over the past two years in developing and delivering a new course incorporating cloud based technologies for GIS and illustrates the many benefits and pitfalls of a cloud based approach to teaching. Throughout the course, students were encouraged to provide regular feedback on the course through the use of online journals. This allowed students to critique the approach to teaching, the learning materials available and to describe their own level of comfort and engagement with the material in an honest and non-confrontational manner. Many of the students did not have a strong information technology background and the journals provided great insight into the views of the students and the challenges they faced in mastering this technology.

scholarly journals Article Commentary: Graphical User Interfaces for Molecular Dynamics—Quo Vadis?

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. BBI.S3332 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Knapp ◽  
W. Schreiner
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Molecular Dynamics Simulations ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
The Past ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Quo Vadis ◽  
Dynamics Simulations

In the past years an increasing number of graphical user interfaces for Molecular Dynamics (MD) were presented and concomitantly, more and more Molecular Dynamics studies were published. With the easier application of MD software packages the field runs the risk however, of being pervaded with unreliable results. Therefore, possible benefits and caveats have to be carefully balanced. Here we outline in which respects a broader access of MD via graphical user interfaces may help to increase the usability of Molecular Dynamics simulations while maintaining their quality.

Keyboards, Screens, and Mice

2014 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Keyword(s):  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Command Line ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Today ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Traditional Paradigm

This chapter deals generally with the developments in various interaction technologies. Interaction paradigms have shifted in the past from command line interfaces to graphical user interfaces exploiting heavily metaphors from the real to the digital world. Today, the traditional paradigm of interaction with a computer using a mouse, a keyboard, and a screen starts again to shift into new emerging paradigms employing a variety of technologies such as speech and gesture recognition. The functionality of a PC is now being transferred into devices such as mobile and wearable devices, exposing the need for new ways of interacting with devices. This chapter discusses how emerging interaction technologies can affect the eAccessibility domain by presenting opportunities, challenges, and dangers that lie ahead.

Recent improvements inDSR

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 928-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kratzert ◽  
Ingo Krossing
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Trifluoromethyl Group ◽  
The Past

TheDSRcomputer program has received many minor and major updates over the past two years. This publication describes some new features, such as disorder modelling on special positions, error detection for restraints and trifluoromethyl group modelling. Most importantly, the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) makeDSRa lot easier to use, especially in modelling disorder on special positions that would have been difficult to implement without a GUI. In addition, generating and editing of new fragments in the database is now much easier.

Behind the stage of a literary text. ‘Custom is despot among men’

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
E. N. Tsimbaeva
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Skeletal System ◽  
World War ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fiction Writers

The article analyzes physical and physiological problems caused by fashionable clothing in the mid-18th to early 20th cc. that shaped people’s appearances and lifestyles in the past. Affecting the skeletal system and the functioning of internal organs and brain in particular and causing various illnesses, these problems went largely unrecognized by contemporaries, including writers, but would inevitably surface in literary works as part and parcel of everyday life. Without understanding their role, one may struggle to comprehend not only plot twists and characters’ motivations but also the mentality of the bygone era as portrayed in fiction. Chronologically, the research covers the period from the mid-18th c. to World War I. The author only focuses on so-called respectable society (a very tentative term that covers members of the aristocracy and other classes with comparable lifestyles), since it was this group which drew the most attention from fiction writers of the period. The scholar chose to concentrate on the kind of daily realia of ‘noble society’ that permeate works by Russian, English, French and, to some extent, German authors, considered most prominent in Europe at the time.

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