HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: valdes@cauchy.cl.uh.edu (IGNACIO H VALDES)
Subject: Computer fatigue
Keywords: Stress repetitive motion relaxation
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:41:52 GMT


Hello,

I've uploaded onto cica.cica.indiana.edu in the win3/uploads area stress11.zip,  
a demo copy of StressFree.  StressFree is a program running on Windows 3.0 (Mac  
and DOS version ready approx. November and December respectively) that reminds  
you to take a break, then it shows you a series of relaxation techniques and  
stretches that may prevent repetitive strain injuries and help reduce tension  
and fatigue from using a PC.  You can select what parts of your body to work  
on: neck, shoulders, hands back and more.  Created by a team of healthcare  
professionals including a Licensed Physical Therapist, a Ph.D Psychologist and  
an award-winning medical illustrator. The program is used at National  
Rehabilitation Hospital's prevention and worksite accomodation programs and  
contains over 50 tension reducing exercises and over 70 illustrations.

Let me know how you like the program.  I may not be able to reply quickly since  
I don't logon to this id every day.  For quicker response you may want to try  
the following id: 70412,727@compuserve.com

Thanks,

Ignacio
Xref: sparky comp.human-factors:2425 comp.cog-eng:327
From: mayoka@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Kevin A. Mayo)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Survey Definitions
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:33:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.human-factors
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

In reference to the surveys about formative evaluation and user class profiles,
I received the following reguest:

> I think you need to explain what it is you mean by "formative
> evaluation". In our jargon-filled field, this could mean many things.

Formative Evaluation:

   The user interface design process has be characterized by many authors
   with many models; however, one common thread is iterative
   development.  (See Gould's chapter 35 in Helander, _Handbook of HCI_)
   
   Formative evaluation is the process of evaluating a design/interface 
   for faults/features that need redesign in an iterative process.  

   In the Williges model there are three stages to UI design:  Initial Design, 
   Formative Evaluation, and Summative Evaluation.  The UI design process iterates 
   within and among each stage.  The stages are broken 
   down (by R. Williges et al., chap 11.3,  _Handbook of HF_):

   Initial Design 	Formative Evaluation	Summative Evaluation
   -------------------- ----------------------- ------------------------
    Design Objectives	 Rapid Prototyping	 Operation SW Interface
    Task/Function 	 User Defined Int'faces	 Benchmarking
      Analysis		 User Acceptance	 Formal Experimentation
    Focus on Users	    Testing		 
    Design Guidelines
    Structured
      Walk-through
    
   So, in the survey, when I refer to formative evaluation, I mean the 
   process by which you (or your company) 'converge' on a good design/interface.


User Class Profiles

   A user class profile is a set of user characteristics that gives the designer
   an 'understanding' or 'view' of target users.  An example might be
   the user population BANK TELLERS who have the following characteristics:
	      novice COMPUTER users (possibly)
	      expert in BANK TRANSACTIONS problem domain
		... etc ...

   The set of characteristics creates a profile (or definition) of the user class.

   In regards to the survey, I have already received one very well taken argument
   AGAINST the use of user classes, but I have not received much of anything else.


I hope this helps clear up any problems with survey definitions.

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| CS Department / VA Tech / a.k.a. VPI&SU |   two points is through hell. |
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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew Holyer)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Am I being turned into a handicapped programmer?
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:03:28 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

(Dick  posted  a complaint about   right-hand bias in   the  design of
pointing devices)

Well, for myself, I'm (strongly) left-handed, and I always use a mouse
with my right hand. In fact, I  find it an  advantage -  it  leaves my
left  hand free to  type things on the keyboard.  About the only times
when I have to go "cross-hand"  is when I  want to actually  draw with
the mouse, and that's a pretty thankless task at the best of times.

Regards,

Andy Holyer 


-- 
&ndy Holyer, School of Cognitive and     |"Boy, they were big on
Computing Studies, University of Sussex, |  crematoriums, weren't they?"
JANET: andyh@cogs.sussex.ac.uk           | - George Bush while touring
                                         |   Auschwitz, Sept. 1987
From: raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: repeated motion injury
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:20:29 GMT
Organization: Unify Corporation (Sacramento)

In article <izeek.718547127@techunix.technion.ac.il>, izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ilan Aisic) writes:
> YES! 
> And I thought I was the only one...
> In fact, I tend to develop pains in my right hand and wrist after 
> only 20-30 minutes of using a mouse-based program.

	Question for those who have physical problems due to using a mouse:

	What is the height of the surface that you use the mouse on?
	Is it standard desktop height, or is it a lower level such as
	that provided by a typing desk or a "dropped" keyboard shelf?

	To spare news bandwidth, please reply by email.  I'll post
	a summary to report any apparent correlation or lack of same.


------------------
Paul Raveling
Raveling@Unify.com
From: de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Am I being turned into a handicapped programmer?
Date: 9 Oct 92 08:46:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.human-factors
Organization: Personal


Interesting point, guess lefties, as all minorities, are subject to
market-strtegy discrimination.  Unfortunatly, the push for cheaper hardware
forces the marketplace to go for volume-based strategys, and there lies the
rub.

I supose one could startup a mailorder catalog for lefthanded computer
users, maybe the targeted audience would give it a chance to be
competitively priced.  uUnderstand its been done before for more general
stuff like scissors.
--

Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu> | "Novo, de Novo,
                                  |     de novo, de no-o-o-o-o---, 
                                  | Novemba come an' dey gonna go home."
Xref: sparky comp.human-factors:2440 rec.music.cd:7042
From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,rec.music.cd
Subject: Re: CD case design problem
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:22:18 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <16881E754.EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu> EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu writes:

>On recurring problem I have is assuming that the CD is in the case.
>Unlike good old record albums, CD cases (most of them) weigh more than
>the CD they are meant to carry. I consider it to be a flaw of CD case
>design, that I cannot always tell if the CD is inside or not without
>opening the case to check.
> 
>Any thoughts on this?

I have not had a problem with that. BUT...

my personal pet peeve with the design is that most of the accompanying
booklets are inserted with the fold going in and the single pages
going out.  So, when you try to remove it, you are forced to struggle
to slide all the single pages past the ridge designed to keep the
booklet from falling out accidentally.

My SOLUTION (no reason to throw out the Jewel in favor of crap-packs just
because of a little thing like that!):
Take the booklet out ONCE and flip it around before putting it back in.
(So that the single pages go in first, and the fold is an easy matter to
slide past the ridge.)
This puts the cover-art upside-down, so... flip the CD over!

Here's a diagram, in case I'm not making myself perfectly clear verbally:

New CD:                                        MY CD:

+--------------------------+                +--------------------------+
| |                        |                | |                        |
| |    X  upside-down      |                | |                   X    |
| |    X                   |                | |                  XXX   |
| |    X                   |                | |                 X X X  |
| |    X                   |                | |                   X    |
| |  X X X                 |                | |                   X    |
| |   XXX                  |                | |                   X    |
| |    X                   |                | |      umop-ep!sdn  X    |
| |                        |                | |                        |
+--------------------------+                +--------------------------+


				James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of anyone at all}
From: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Smith & Mozier Guidelines in Postscript?UP
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:12:17 AST
Organization: Dymaxion Research Limited, NS, Canada

In article <1992Oct13.234040.10891@netcom.com>, friday@netcom.com (Carol Anne Ogdin) writes:
> I've downloaded the Smith & Mozier Guidelines from Ohio, but
> they're in some obscure formatting scheme only a government
> contractor could've developed.
> 
> Has anyone converted the document to Postscript, MS Word,
> WordPerfect or some other generally usable format?  I'd
> rather print the parts I want than buy the original for
> $53 from NTIS.

They are supposedly available in LaTeX.  The person who converted the
Guidelines to LaTeX some time ago indicated that the LaTeX Guidelines
were submitted to Ohio to be made available for ftp.  I haven't seen
that happen yet and have been waiting patiently.

Ben.

P.S. If you don't know what LaTeX is, it is a macro package for
     the TeX typesetting language.  The language and the macro
     package are public domain and are available for most
     platforms (VAX, Unix, Mac, PC, Amiga, etc.)  A variety
     of drivers are available to convert the device-independant
     output to virutally any device type (Postscript, HP,
     Windows preview, etc.)
---
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Dymaxion Research Ltd.,                              fax: (902)421-1267
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 1R2            Internet: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: jgarland@ws20.ips.iacd.honeywell.com (Jeff Garland)
Subject: Re: Am I being turned into a handicapped programmer?
Keywords: apollo, HP, keyboards, mouse
Organization: Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control
Distribution: comp.human-factors
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 21:16:10 GMT


I am right handed and I intentionally use my left hand for
the mouse.  This is a direct result of using Apollo keyboard which
had a nice set of editing keys on the left side of the keyboard.  After
awhile I became very adept at using these keys and the mouse
in the right hand to move around.  When I switched to an HP-UX
the editing keys were on the right side of the keyboard and I
became frustrated with always having to switch back and forth
from the mouse to the keyboard.  So I now use my mouse from the
left hand.  Although using the mouse in the left hand works
quite well I really prefer the design of the apollo keyboard
mouse system over the HP-UX.



-- 
Jeff Garland                     |  If you can't stand the heat...
Phoenix, Az USA                  |  get out of the desert.
jgarland@ips.iacd.honeywell.com
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Am I being turned into a handicapped programmer?
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:20:30 GMT
Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado

[I'm only a sporadic reader of c.h-f; if this topic has come up before,
would someone point me at relevant text and tell me to shut up?]

As I watch window systems spread everywhere, as I see new machines come out
with novel "pointing devices", and as I see endless variations on the
traditional mouse, I wonder if designers have any idea that not everyone in
the world is right-handed.

Someone recently pointed out an ad for a laptop computer with a pointing
device claimed to be "ergonomically designed"--the distinguishing charac-
teristic being that it is explicitly tuned to right-handed use!  It is
becoming more and more common to create pointing devices which can only be
used with the right hand.

The incidence of left-handedness in the general population is about 10%.
That's a lot to ignore.  I suspect (and various others corroborate the
suspicion) that the incidence of left-handedness among serious computer
users is as much as twice that of the general population.

I've been programming for 26 years now, and frankly I'm more than a little
bit pissed at the idea of being "designed out" of being able to use compu-
ters as conveniently as everyone else!  It's a bit late for me to change
professions (against my will) and far more too late to attempt to retrain
my use of hands.  [Besides, as Humpty Dumpty said, "the question is, which
is to be master..."]

I think the Logitech "Mouseman" was in the vanguard of this "handedness"
problem--it's a mouse with a moderate bias for the right hand.  It was
supposedly available in both right- and left-handed versions, but the
left-handed versions were rarely available in retail stores.  They may have
required special order and/or cost more.  In short, Logitech massively
botched the marketing.  Their response--in the Trackman and the wireless
mouse--was to offer only right-handed versions!  The Trackman is the most
pitiable design, since it would be a trivial modification to make it adapt
to users of either hand preference, and because it is otherwise such a
comfortable design.

Some recent portable/laptop computers have built-in pointing devices that
are not even slightly adaptable to left-handed use, even though they could
be made adaptable with a tiny dose of intelligence on the designers' part.
It's too stupid to be allowed to stand.

I'm done with pretending that this is a trivial point.  Dammit, people are
making computers I can't use!  I'm eager to hear what other folks are doing
about this.  If there's an effort to beat up on manufacturers not to dis-
criminate against the left-handed, I want to know about it and join it. 
If there isn't such an effort, let me know and I'll help organize one.
-- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
   ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: figueroa@serum.clpd.Kodak.Com (Janet Figueroa (x37973))
Subject: Re: Am I being turned into a handicapped programmer?
Followup-To: comp.human-factors
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company - Clinical Diagnostics Division
Distribution: clpd
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:18:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.072030@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
...STUFF DELETED.....
|> 
|> The incidence of left-handedness in the general population is about 10%.
|> That's a lot to ignore.  I suspect (and various others corroborate the
|> suspicion) that the incidence of left-handedness among serious computer
|> users is as much as twice that of the general population.
...MORE STUFF DELETED...............
|>
|> Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
|>    ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.

I have found that several people here who are right handed in most
tasks find using the mouse, or any other pointing device, with their
left hand more advantageous.  I do the same myself.  I can not say
that I am totally ambidextrous, but I would like to have a choice 
of which "hand" is better.

The question is how can one design this characteristic into a
product?  As pointed out by Dick Dunn, it can not be left to the
marketing and sales people to make left handed devices available.


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Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: asbjorno@diplom6.cs.uit.no (Asbjoern Oskal)
Subject: Dramatic approach to HC-activities
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:28:45 GMT

I'm working on an HCI-design and trying to use some of the ideas from Brenda 
Laurel's book "Computers As Theatre". I will also be using the CUA 
(Common User Access) interface design guide.
What I'm wondering about is the following :
Is there anybody out there who's been working with integration of HCI-design
standards and ideas like those presented in Laurel's book?
If there is I would be pleased to get in touch with you.

-- 
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   -\<,  tel :   084 74615 (home), 083 44030 (University)  ,>/-   
( )/ ( ) Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tromsoe ( ) \( )
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From: sonix@schunix.uucp (Duane Morin)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: How would you explain this to a user...
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:19:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA

In article <de19-081092085414@mac19-pg2.umd.edu> de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery) writes:
>> [....]  All the user's
>> task should be is to look at a picture and see whether or not it has passed
>> or failed the diagnostic test.  If necessary, they will be able to print 
>> this picture and send it to us for diagnosis.
>> 
>
>I dont unbderstand why you have to ask the user to interpret the graph for
>you.
>
>surely you can do the comparison and send yourself mail, or ask the user to
>send you mail?

Actually, this is a holdover from days of the original system, where we didn't
really know what sort of trace would or wouldn't be ok to run the test.  

Essentially, the entire problem has been scrapped and given "Look at fresh
tomorrow" priority.  We recognized that we need to know what we want before 
we can get it.

Thank you to the net for the advice.

>--
>
>Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu> | "Novo, de Novo,
>                                  |     de novo, de no-o-o-o-o---, 
>                                  | Novemba come an' dey gonna go home."

Duane Morin
 Walker Sonix, Inc
 Worcester, MA
 
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: Aaron Seidman <seidman>
Subject: Re: Am I being turned into a handicapped programmer?
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:02:45 GMT

  I am another right-hander who prefers to use the mouse with my left hand.  When I
  first started using a system that had a mouse I realized that I was overloading my
  right hand, typing, using the keypad, and handling the mouse.  It seemed silly to me
  not to use both hands so I tried switching the mouse (and reversing the buttons).
  The first couple of days were a bit awkward, but after that it seemed quite natural.
  At first, I used to switch back to my right hand if I needed to do very fine 
  manipulations, but after a short while I did all the mouse control with my left hand.
  On the positive side, it seems to have helped me to become generally more ambidextrous.
  On the negative side, I find that when I'm using someone else's system and need to
  control the mouse with my right hand, I'm somewhat clumsy :^).

                                                   Aaron Seidman


Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: hudson@cc.gatech.edu (Scott Hudson)
Subject: Re: Apogee UIMS references?
Reply-To: hudson@cc.gatech.edu (Scott Hudson)
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:00:05 GMT

In article <10612@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> timbomb@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>I'm looking for reasonably up-to-date references on the Apogee UIMS from 
>UofArizona. I have 
>
>Hudson, Scott E., "Graphical Specification of Flexible User Interface Displays"
>Proc of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 
>November 1989
>
>But that only describes the UIMS briefly. Is there anything more recent and/or 
>more comprehensive?
>
>tim
>--
>Tim Mansfield                                         timbomb@cs.uq.oz.au
>Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Qld, Australia, 4072           +61 (0)7 365 2956
>"Nothing is wrong with the idea that there would be a God...  
>		who changes the water." mvs@softway.oz (Mark V. Shaney)

The Apogee UIMS was not further developed as a system.  However, the concepts
behind it went into a second generation of systems: the Penguims UIMS and the
Opus interface presentation editor.  These systems are described in:

  Scott Hudson, Shamim Mohamed, "Interactive Specification of Flexible User
  Interface Displays", ACM Transactions on Information Systems, v8, n3, 
  pp. 269-288, July 1990.

  Scott Hudson, "An Enhanced Spreadsheet Model for User Interface 
  Specification", University of Arizona Technical Report, TR 90-33, October 
  1990 (submitted to ACM Transactions on Graphics).

Scott Hudson                                          hudson@cc.gatech.edu
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

					
					-Scott Hudson (hudson@cc.gatech.edu)
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: CD case design problem
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 16:32:06 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu writes:
> On recurring problem I have is assuming that the CD is in the case.
> Unlike good old record albums, CD cases (most of them) weigh more than
> the CD they are meant to carry.

Cars weigh more than the people they are meant to carry -- something the
passengers are damn grateful for whenever they're involved in a collision.

>                                 I consider it to be a flaw of CD case
> design, that I cannot always tell if the CD is inside or not without
> opening the case to check.

Is there some good reason why you can't look through the top or bottom of the
case like I do and see if you can see the edge of a disc?


mathew
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From: suthers+@pitt.edu (Daniel D Suthers)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: AI & User Interfaces
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:33:38 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Another body of work combining AI & user interfaces went under the
name of CALLISTO, later called SAGE (I'm not sure if the two are the
same project). My favorite paper on it is:

  Graphics and Natural Langauge as Components of Automatic Explanation
  Proc. Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces Workshop
  Monterey, California march 1988 (ACM/SIGCHI)

but this is hard to find - ask Steven Roth, roth@isl1.ri.cmu.edu.
Related work:

  Data Characterization for intelligent graphics presentation.
  CHI 90 proceedings April 1990 p. 193.



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