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From: mike@isgtec.com (Mike Sellers)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Red Plasma Displays
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:45:43 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga Ontario

psawyer@tigger.East.Sun.COM writes:
> In article 986@ppgfr.uucp, monmis@ppgfr.uucp (Projekt MONCODE (User
> Staender)) writes:
> > I'm looking for experience and judgement concerning 
> > the use of red monochrome plasma displays.
> > 
> > Are there any objections to the use of red colored 
> > displays in special applications or environments -
> > our application is patient data monitoring at inten-
> > sive care units.
> 
> Around 10% of the male population is red color-blind. If your user
> population (nurses?) is predominently female, maybe that's not a
> problem.

It's still a problem if a significant percentage of the users might be
male.  In addition, the color _deficiency_ (not blindess) with which 
many (8-10%) of men have to deal with shouldn't affect their ability 
to see this kind of display.  

I know there are medical consoles which you plasma screens, but I personally
wouldn't recommend it.  I haven't seen any studies on this, but I suspect 
the low contrast between the red foreground and the low background increases
the time needed to focus on the screen and recognize what it is displaying.
This might be especially true for non-textual information (e.g. heart traces
or other patient info on an ICU monitor).  

--
              Mike Sellers      User Interface Team Leader
           mike@isgtec.com      ISG Technologies, Toronto, Canada
              "Actum ne agas" -- Do not do what has been done.
                         Furare tantum ab Optimis
From: efw5565@zeus.tamu.edu (Evelyn Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: looking for current research in GUI-aspects of color
Date: 15 Dec 1992 11:55 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I am about to embark on my graduate research experiment.  The experiment
is a comparison of color spaces (RGB, HLS, etc.) and color specification
techniques (sliders, 2-D displays, etc.), a continuation of the research
conducted by Schwarz at the University of Waterloo ~1985.  There has not
been much written in this area since then, so I would like to put a call
out for any others who are actively researching in this area to please
contact me, so that I can make sure my project is not duplicating existing
work.  Thanks very much.

Evelyn Wells
Visualization Laboratory
Texas A&M University

evelyn@archone.tamu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: Gnu I/F (Self-Destructive?)
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:28:17 GMT

emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow) writes:

>  A quick solution is to always use the CTRL-key like a SHIFT key,
>where you make sure that both hands are involved in the key
>combination.  On my SUN workstation, that means that I always have to
>use my left hand to type CTRL commands, even CTRL-A.  Sure it slows me
>down, but at the end of the day my hands don't hurt.

Backwards!  Multi-key combinations ON ONE HAND are extra-super-destructo.
You want to do like they taught you in typing class: shift with one
hand, key with the other.  Do CTRL the same way.  I want a keyboard
mapping option that enforces this.

-- 

Lance Norskog

Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow)
Subject: Re: Gnu I/F (Self-Destructive?)
Organization: Exoterica Corporation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:32:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.182817.27173@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:
>emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow) writes:
>
>>  A quick solution is to always use the CTRL-key like a SHIFT key,
>>where you make sure that both hands are involved in the key
>>combination.  On my SUN workstation, that means that I always have to
>>use my left hand to type CTRL commands, even CTRL-A.  Sure it slows me
         ^^^^
>>down, but at the end of the day my hands don't hurt.
>
>Backwards!  Multi-key combinations ON ONE HAND are extra-super-destructo.
>You want to do like they taught you in typing class: shift with one
>hand, key with the other.  Do CTRL the same way.  I want a keyboard
>mapping option that enforces this.
>
>Lance Norskog


  You're right, I did get it backwards.  I meant my right hand.
-- 
-- Eric Promislow--emp@xgml.com--Exoterica Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Saul Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Shared windows
Organization: University of Calgary
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:06:51 GMT

Tomas Carlsson asks:
..I'm now looking for articles, papers, books, comments etc. 
  about the following ways of sharing windows

I have several papers on this topic. The most relevant are:

Greenberg, S. (1990) "Sharing views and interactions with single-user
applications." In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Office
Information Systems, pp. 227-237, Cambridge, Massachusets, April 25-27.
-all about view-sharing systems, including a survey (i.e. sharing single-user
 applications)

Greenberg, S. (1991) "Personalizable groupware: Accomodating individual roles
and group differences." In Proceedings of the European Conference of Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '91), pp. 17-32, Amsterdam, September
24-27, Kluwer Academic Press. 
-all about floor control in shared view systems

Greenberg, S., Roseman, M., Webster, D. and Bohnet, R. (1992) "Human and
Technical Factors of Distributed Group Drawing Tools." J. Interacting With
Computers, December.
-all about true multi-user shared view workspaces (i.e. shared drawing tools)

I hope this helps,
_____________________________________________________
Dr Saul Greenberg	(saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary 
Calgary, Alberta CANADA T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-6087   Fax: (403) 284-4707
--
_____________________________________________________
Dr Saul Greenberg	(saul@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary 
Calgary, Alberta CANADA T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-6087   Fax: (403) 284-4707
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: asper@sbctri.sbc.com (Alan E. Asper)
Subject: Re: Usability Engineering book - comments needed on manuscript
Organization: Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, St.Louis, MO
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 18:42:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.170634.28877@walter.bellcore.com> Jakob Nielsen <nielsen@bellcore.com> writes:
>I need several software developers and software project managers to comment
>on the manuscript for my new book, "Usability Engineering".
>

I urge anyone who reviews the manuscript to also read Jeffries & Desurvire's
article "Usability Testing vs. Heuristic Evaluation: Was there a contest?" in
the October 1992 issue of the ACM-SIGCHI Bulletin. It's a good article, and
provides some much-needed perspective on some of the methodologies described
in Nielsen's manuscript outline.

Alan

Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: tomw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Tom Worthington)
Subject: Re: CHI 93 ?
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:55:13 GMT

Phil Neal writes:

>Is there going to be a CHI 93 ? If so,
>how can I get information on submitting a paper and attending ?

Don't know about CHI'93 but we are having a OZCHI in Canberra in 1993.
Why not put in a paper for that (very warm in Australia in November).

Details from:

Penny Collings
Canberra branch
Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group
Ergonomics Society
mail: PennyC@isepcs.canberra.edu.au


posted by:

Tom Worthington
Chairman 
THE CANBERRA BRANCH OF 
THE AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY INCORPORATED
G.P.O. Box 446
Canberra A.C.T. 2601
Australia

Ph: +61 6 247 4830 (ACS Office)
Fax: +61 6 249 6419 

Ph:  +61 6 2651258 (Mr. Worthington)
Fax: +61 6 2653601
E-Mail: tomw@adfa.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: gcm@world.std.com (Gretchen C Macdowall)
Subject: Re: Storyboarding
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:05:09 GMT

<<information on the concept
of storyboarding.>>
   
A storyboard is a series of illustrations of the shots you are going to
take when filming, with descriptive info next to each one about the length
of the shot, the audio, etc. Multimedia has kind of borrowed this concept. 
   I wouldn't buy the book for this, but "QuickTime Handbook" by Drucker
and Murie p.560-567 has some practical illustrated examples of
storyboarding for digital video.
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: martin@matilda.vut.edu.au (Martin Schweitzer)
Subject: Re: User interface quality definition (what do you think?) 
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:24:37 GMT

In article <9212112203.AA49307@chaos.intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin) writes:
>> Question: For you, what means "User Interface Quality"? What is your 
>> definition of this expression, what is the most famous definition you 
>> ever saw (good or bad or point of reference). 
>
>To me, the quality of a user interface is inversely related to how noticeable 
>it is.  The best user interface is one which no one ever notices, because 
>they are able to think only about the task at hand, not the tools they are 
>using.
>
>
>
>Amanda Walker
>InterCon Systems Corporation
>
>
This introduces a nice paradox.  Is a user interface that nobody sees
a User Interface.  Note, that I do not believe this question to be on
the same level as the tree that falls in the wood that nobody hears.
Consider the following example:
1. Suppose we have a system where we dial a number and a voice informs
us that the number has changed and gives us the new number.  That is
a fairly reasonable interface.

2.  Suppose that we dial a number, the number has changed, but instead
of being informed that the number has changed, we are automatically
rerouted to the new number.  Are we still interacting with a User
Interface, or has the user interface been removed?

Martin.


-- 
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Martin Schweitzer
Victoria University of Technology
Footscray, Australia
From: graaff@IS.TWI.TUDelft.NL (Hans de Graaff)
Subject: Re: CHI 93 ?
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:25:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.225513.5730@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> tomw@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Tom Worthington) writes:
>Phil Neal writes:
>
>>Is there going to be a CHI 93 ? If so,
>>how can I get information on submitting a paper and attending ?
>

Yes, there will be a CHI '93 (and '94, and '95). CHI '93 will be a
joint operation with Interact, hence the name InterCHI '93. The
conference will be held in Amsterdam from April 24th until the 29th.

You can still submit short papers, but hurry, the deadline is Jan
15th.

Hans



-- 
Hans de Graaff                  | I want someone to follow,
J.J.deGraaff@IS.TWI.TUDelft.NL  |   who doesn't lead the way
Department of Informatics       | I want someone to listen,
Delft University of Technology  |   who won't repeat what I say
               Room: 2.003, Telephone: +31-15-78-5811 
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rmurray@netcon.smc.edu (Roger Murray)
Subject: Replace a PC keyboard with a Stenotype?
Summary: Goofed the Newsgroup line last time; double-checking this time.  :-)
Organization: Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:02:33 GMT

I work with court reporting students (which my .signature will attest to) and
was curious if there was a way of connecting a Stenotype (presumably a
computerized model) to a PC to act as a substitute keyboard.  I find myself
doing a lot of text typing (versus hitting CTRL-this and ALT-that in
applications) of late and thought a Stenotype might make things go a bit
faster.  What sort of hardware and software would it involve?  How expensive
would it be?

Thanks!
-- 
Roger Murray (rmurray@netcon.smc.edu)
Instructional Computing, Santa Monica College

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Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: stevens@cs.colorado.edu (Curt Stevens)
Subject: Re: CHI 93 ?
Followup-To: comp.human-factors
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:38:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.021340.13274@u.washington.edu>,
neal@grover.stat.washington.edu (Phil Neal Inc.) wrote:
> 
> Dear human factors people,
> 
> Is there going to be a CHI 93 ? If so,
> how can I get information on submitting a paper and attending ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil Neal, Systems Programmer, Statistics Department GN-22
> University of Washington, Seattle, Wa. 98195 USA  | 206-685-1627

CHI this year is combined with the Interact conference. InterCHI is being
held in Amsterdamn April 24th - 29th. The submission deadline for regular
papers has long passed and acceptances/rejections are already out. You can
still submit short papers (and I believe a few other things). You can
obtain information on these things via anonymous ftp from
flash.bellcore.com in /pub/ic93*.

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Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow)
Subject: Re: Gnu I/F (Self-Destructive?)
Organization: Exoterica Corporation
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:30:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.231336.4441@colorado.edu> jcook@mumble.cs.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan E. Cook) writes:
> [about how the Gnu interface, with its reliance on CTRL- and
> ESC-key combinations can cause CTS...]
>
>If this is a real problem, which I feel it is, should there
>be a motion to define a new Gnu interface, and retool various
>Gnu software, like gnuplot, gdb, etc? The software is great,
>it'd be a shame if its contributing more than its share to
>carpal-tunnel syndrome, or repetetive-motion stresses.
>
>Jon.
>

  A quick solution is to always use the CTRL-key like a SHIFT key,
where you make sure that both hands are involved in the key
combination.  On my SUN workstation, that means that I always have to
use my left hand to type CTRL commands, even CTRL-A.  Sure it slows me
down, but at the end of the day my hands don't hurt.

  What would be much better is an optional foot-pedal interface.
Something like the left pedal to emulate the CTRL-key, the right pedal
for the META-key.  I believe this was discussed in this news group a
year ago or so, so I won't bother going into the merits of it.  Are
there any experimental foot-pedal interfaces people are aware of?


-- 
-- Eric Promislow--emp@xgml.com--Exoterica Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: kon@bacchus.esa.oz.au (Kon Howl)
Subject: Work Flow Modelling
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:08:47 GMT


I am looking for information, references, etc. on work 
flow modelling, task analysis, etc.

The goal is to produce a model of the required human 
resources for a given work load, in this case the work
tasks are air traffic control related information 
management.

Thanks in advance.

Kon

Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.periphs,comp.sources.wanted,misc.books.technical,misc.misc.,misc.wanted,sci.technology
From: scovar@NeoSoft.com (VSI Shell Account)
Subject: interface age readers, writehander
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:27:43 GMT

ATTN:!!  Do you remember Interface Age Magazine?

In late 1978 or sometime in 1979 (I think), there was a feature story
on an item called the writehander which replaced the keyboard on a
pc.  I need to know who makes (made?) this item.  Will someone please
email an answer to me?


Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: davidk@mcil.comm.mot.com (David Kramer)
Subject: trackball vs. mouse ?
Organization: Motorola Communications Israel Ltd., Tel Aviv
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:49:26 GMT
Keywords: trackball

This seems like the right newsgroup to post this question to.

I'm interested in peoples experience with using a trackball rather than
a mouse. In what ways have people found it superior to a mouse and in
what ways inferior?

I imagine that the answer might vary depending on the particular device,
so it might help if I mention that the one we would be considering is the
one HP provides as an option with their 700 series workstations.

Please respond via E-Mail if possible. If there is interest I'll post a
summary to this newsgroup if I get replies.

-- 
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[ Motorola Communications Israel Ltd. |  Phone (972-3) 565-8638 Fax 565-8754 ]
From: rmrohre@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Randile the Reptile)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Storyboarding
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:02:59 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <anielsen-151292120205@andrewn-mac.wt.uwa.edu.au> anielsen@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Nielsen) writes:
>
>I've been asked to assist staff at our campus in designing multimedia
>projects, and one of them asked for more information on the concept
>of storyboarding.  After scouring my reference library, I'm at a loss,
>so am looking for good references to books/articles which might help.
>
>Any advice gratefully received!
>

        Check out the animation literature
(particularly traditional animation).

Storyboarding is a rough sketch of main scenes in an
animation story line. A storyboard is often used to
provide the overall concept of an animation sequence
before keyframes and "in between" frames are generated.
A recent book that I just found is:

        "Animation: From Script To Screen", Shamus Culhane,
        St. Martins Press, New York, 1988.
        ISBN 0-315-02162-3

Also, the much sought but out of print:

        "Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life", Frank Thomas
        and Ollie Johnston, New York, Abbeville Press, 1981.

Of course, I could be way off base here if there is a different
concept of storyboarding in human factors specific work.
Perhaps, the idea of your collegues of storyboarding your
multimedia projects is to simply provide a rough sketch of
what your interface would look like and how it would work.

Any comments from others?

- Randy Rohrer

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Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: jcook@mumble.cs.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan E. Cook)
Subject: Gnu I/F (Self-Destructive?)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:13:36 GMT

I can't recall seeing this discussion here, so I'll start it.

There was some concensus on comp.editors a while back that the
control-key interface in emacs is very destructive in terms of
CTS. Mentioned in that discussion was the fact that you have to
hold the CTRL key down, and I think its compounded by the fact
that its pervasive (i.e. you use it alot), and there's only one
CTRL key (Shift, on the other hand, isn't used as much and 
distributes the work over both hands). Key placement also seems to
aggravate the CTRL key use.

From personal experience, After being in industry for about 2 yrs,
I came back to school, started using emacs again, and within
2 months my left hand, near the last two fingers, was getting
sore.

And of course, just ask Richard Stallman - he can't type anymore.

So, I've since remapped my emacs bindings to avoid the CTRL
key, but, as the subject implies, WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER
GNU TOOLS? If this is a problem, then its pervasive throughout
all gnu tools that have some command interface.

I just spent all night using gnuplot to complete some work, and
today my left hand, sure 'nuff, is sore again.

If this is a real problem, which I feel it is, should there
be a motion to define a new Gnu interface, and retool various
Gnu software, like gnuplot, gdb, etc? The software is great,
it'd be a shame if its contributing more than its share to
carpal-tunnel syndrome, or repetetive-motion stresses.

Jon.


Newsgroups: comp.human-factors,comp.org.decus,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
From: scg@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Southam Computer Group)
Subject: Looking for supplier of Dvorak keyboard for VT420 terminals
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:29:39 GMT

Hello.

We have hundreds of VT420 terminals and some of us are interested in using
the Dvorak keyboard layout.  We are currently using standard LK401 keyboards
on the North American model of VT420.

Has anyone heard of a Dvorak keyboard that plugs into a VT420?  My DEC sales
person can't find anything from DEC on it - but is still hopeful.

Does anyone know of a DEC part number or a third-party provider for Dvorak
keyboards?

Please reply via E-Mail.

Thanks.
Stephen LaRocque
Southam Newspapers
Canada
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
From: fin@unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth)
Subject: Re: Gnu I/F (Self-Destructive?)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Networking Services.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:04:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.231336.4441@colorado.edu>, jcook@mumble.cs.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan E. Cook) writes:
	...
|> There was some concensus on comp.editors a while back that the
|> control-key interface in emacs is very destructive in terms of
|> CTS. Mentioned in that discussion was the fact that you have to
	...

I have seen reports that just about any repetitive action can cause
CTS.  I see no reason to assume that the tendons and muscles in your
fingers/hands are designed to detect the use of Emacs key bindings and
only cause CTS when those bindings are used (:-).  It would surprize
me very much if there were _any_ set of bindings that did not
contribute to CTS.

	...
|> And of course, just ask Richard Stallman - he can't type anymore.
	...

Since there is no reason to assume that he actually reads this news
group, we should not be assuming that silence means consent.  Since
this is a rumor about a _particular individual_, it might only be
polite to not propogate it unless you know for a _fact_ that it is
true (and maybe not even then).  ("Heard from a friend" doesn't count
as a fact.  Heard from RMS, of course, would count.)

I have used Emacs key bindings daily for 14 years.  This usage is
_very heavy_, probably within a small delta of that of RMS.  The only
time that I have had problems is when using cruddy keyboards.  (Most
keyboards are cruddy, IMHO.)  (I can tell a cruddy keyboard when my
fingers get sore from typing a few command lines.  I usually don't
even get into the editor.)

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From: rmurray@netcon.smc.edu (Roger Murray)
Subject: Replace a PC keyboard with a Stenotype?
Organization: Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:48:22 GMT

I work with court reporting students (which my .signature will attest to) and
was curious if there was a way of connecting a Stenotype (presumably a
computerized model) to a PC to act as a substitute keyboard.  I find myself
doing a lot of text typing (versus hitting CTRL-this and ALT-that in
applications) of late and thought a Stenotype might make things go a bit
faster.  What sort of hardware and software would it involve?  How expensive
would it be?

Thanks!
-- 
Roger Murray (rmurray@netcon.smc.edu)
Instructional Computing, Santa Monica College

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