Re: [Usability] An interesting video

[Anton Kerezov <ankere gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:

Please describe at least basically what it is about and how it is
related to usability.

This
is a video that basically shows the world trends of computer and
Internet advances. That would definitely be a warning about the
increased time a user is spending in front of his computer and thus the
Usability team should make everything possible to make the user
interact more with living not virtual friends. That of course is not a
short term "goal" (if it is even considered as such) but something that
should be addressed as early as possible so that our childern would not
be boxed in rooms and separated from the world with music players,
video games, ect. There was a study in the UK about a group of children
that had to leave their ipods, TVs, PC and all kinds of gaming consoles
for a week. The most stunning to me were the facts that one of the
children said that without his mp3 he could actually hear the noise of
the wind in trees and another said that the feeling of not having all
it's gadgets is rather strange...

Another point of view would be that the desktop should be more web
oriented and all of today's services like facebook and twitter should
be easily accessible from within the desktop (e.g. If I want to upload
a picture to facebook that would be presented as an option in  the
context menu [maybe plugin?] and the progress would show as ordinary
file copy dialog).