...The Evolution of Human Computer Interface and Beyond Contents 1. Abstract 2 2. Introduction 3 3. Evolution of HCI 4 4. Important features and facts to ponder 5 4.1 Operating systems and their role in HCI 5 4.2 HCI in the making of a virtual reality 6 5. Glimpse towards the future of HCI 7 5.1 HCI for enhancing human life 7 5.2 Uses and Impacts of HCI 9 6. Conclusion 11 7. References 12 Abstract “HCI concept came into the spotlight after various researches; the improvement of GUIs paved the path for a better and advanced interaction between humans and computers. Interaction with computers has become so close; it almost devoured the human life styles. Future human life will be much dependent upon technology than ever before.” Introduction People live in a curious and modern world where they go to no lengths to embrace technology. It is people who pick and choose what to use more efficiently. HCI (Human Computer Interface) is one of the catalysts which revolutionised the computer technology to a greater extent during the past three decades. HCI concept came into the spotlight after various researches which had been done on various universities and other research labs mainly across USA. But HCI took the centre stage after the rapid growth of GUI (Graphical User Interface)...
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... The very best of it and still searching for advancement were computers. Nowadays computers are widespread in every section of men in the planet. From the basic cell phones, tablets, laptops and supercomputers, these engineered intelligently machines plays a great role into this days everyday struggles. Computers can be a benefit to one person but destruction for others. Still, almost all people uses and depends on it. Computers come in a variety of classification, from small to large, cheap to costly, and personal to multiuser. They engulfed with applications that are suitable and significant to these days. An institution or educational institution that still cannot cope up with these computer breakthroughs is said to be left behind. Nowadays, in a highly technological society, human productivity is made more efficient through the development of electronic gadgets. Now, with the advent of such modernization in education, one way to globalize the process of research is to realize that technology is advancing at an incredibly fast phase. Computers are not confined to being used for entertainment but its role in education is also vast. Grading is one of the most important activities a faculty member does. Many problems in teaching arise because of grading issues. Computers are becoming in our life and one cannot image life without computers in today’s world. If you go in any establishment computers are all...
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...am going to explain about Genesis to revelation of computers evolution in the world. Computers are information systems, which has an operating system, and supports input, processing, output, and persistent memory. The changes taken place in computer technology since the time of invention and extension, conversion, revelation, subversion, diversion, emersion, and aspersion related to computers. Genesis Charles Babbage invents modern computer with a general purpose to carry out logical and arithmetic operations automatically. In the beginning stage computer has no operating system operated on hardware basis later on stages operating system has been invented to increase the functionality of computers. Growing of applications and hardware programs lead to situation as a necessity to create operating system. Extension Computers are the part of living in today’s modern world; Computer technology has been changing very rapidly because of the competition as well as the requirement of consumers. Some of the popular organizations are Apple, Dell, Sony, Lenovo, which are the market leaders and each company has different standards. Apple computers are the most popular and has good brand image because of the speed, reliability and for a very good battery backup. Dell and Lenovo computers have both expensive and less expensive computers with considerable quality and good brand image in the market. Conversion Conversion of computers was taken place by the invention of laptops in the year...
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...ROLE OF COMPUTERS About two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer? However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer. Therefore, computer becomes more and more popular and important to our society. We can use computer everywhere and they are very useful and helpful to our life. Computers have brought about a tremendous revolution in every walk of life and are expected to open more vast fields due to the dexterity of those who design software and those who develop application programs. In a very short period, scientists have been able to extirpate all the defects, the limitations and the shortcoming of computer and much is expected from their ingenuity, acumen and acquisitiveness. The fields of application of computers are various and new applications are being searched out. The scientists applied it to prediction of weather earthquakes, and storms, controlling of satellites and controlling of atomic reactions in reactors and else where. Engineers have not lagged behind. They use computers in designing cars aeroplanes, ships, buildings, bridges and tools etc. In the business world, computers are playing great parts. They are used to word processing, record keeping, inventory controlling, patrol processing, account keeping and auditing, stock marketing and ticket reservations. They are now used to keep personal telephone and address...
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...Positive and Negative Impact of Computer in Society The Social Impact of Computer in Our Society From the time of the invention of the computers to the present day, computers have met tremendous changes. Time to time incorporation of the latest technical achievement has made the use of computer easier. More and more application have been developed and almost all the areas of the professions have been computerized. Computerization is continuously becoming an important part of many organizations. Computer have proved almost all the fields whether related to numeric processing or non numeric processing or document processing in the developed countries and all the walks of life. Computers have become the part of every organization. Beneficial or Positive Impact of Computer in our Society * Any professional individual like doctors, engineers, businessmen etc. undergo a change in their style or working pattern after they get the knowledge of computer. * An individual becomes more competent to take a decisions due to the computer because all the information required to take the decision is provided by the computer on time. As a result, any individuals or institutions get success very fast. * The person working at the managerial level becomes less dependent on low level staff like clerks and accountants. Their accessibility to the information increases tremendously. This improves their working patters and efficiency, which benefit the organization and ultimately affects the...
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...Federation Server, Federation Proxy server, and ADFS Web Agents. A federation server is the main AD FS component, which holds the Federation Service role. These servers route authentication requests between connected directories. A federation proxy server acts as a reverse proxy for AD FS authentication requests. This type of server normally resides in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of a firewall, and is used to protect the back-end AD FS server from direct exposure to the untrusted Internet. The Web Agents component of AD FS hosts the claims-aware agent and the Windows token-based agent components that manage authentication cookies sent to web server applications. The Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services server role is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory service. It provides data storage and retrieval for directory-enabled applications, without the dependencies that are required for Active Directory Domain Services. Active Directory Certificate Services provides customizable services for issuing and managing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies. The digital certificates that AD CS provides can be used to encrypt and digitally sign electronic documents and messages. These digital certificates can be used for authentication of computer, user, or device accounts on a network. Digital certificates are used to provide: Confidentiality through encryption, Integrity through digital...
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...people who have access to technology and those who lack access to technology. Clearly, computer technology has brought about significant ethical and social effects among people from all dimensions. The significance of the digital divide can be witnessed at school and work. The evidence of a digital divide can be seen in terms of the differences in access to computer technology. Different obstacles that limit the access to computer technology for some individuals have caused the divide. Access to computer technology is limited by the differences in geographical areas. From the geographical perspective, statistics indicate that individuals living in suburban areas have a higher access to computer technology both online and computer access as compared to rural and central city residents (Kizza, 2002). Income levels also determine the access to computer technology since computer gadgets or devices are monetized thus individuals have to purchase them and this poses a challenge to people who experience financial constraints. Other -issues include ethnicity where statistics indicate that white non-Hispanic individuals have a higher access to computer technology as compared to other individuals. Age and education also determine the access to computer technology. I agree with Kizza (2002), The digital divide has significantly affected the virtual workplace since only employees with access to computer technology. The disadvantage of the digital divide is that organizations may fail in...
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...The Role of Computers in Our Future As far as computers in the future, I feel that they are going to play a major role. They will be in everyday life, in everything we do. There will be many areas affected by the wide use of computers. Areas such as: home, work, schools, automobiles, electronics, and humans. Although these areas are already affected, they will be even more as we move into the future. To begin this discussion I will show you the effects on the work place and humans. As for humans in the work place, work will become easier. So this means less stress for humans because the computers will be doing all the work. This in turn means that humans will be doing less and less because the computers will be slowly taking over. As for a human going to work, this may only consist of telling a computer what to do all day. Or even from your own home, waking up and telling your computer what to do so you do not even have to go into work. Now for communication with computers, this may get so advanced that your computer may even ask you questions about the work it is doing and that you are getting paid to do. So this is where I see computers going as far as work and humans. Now for computers in the schools, I feel we will soon have no books and all work will be done on computers. Even homework will be done on the internet and e-mailed to the teacher. Children will be taught about computers at a younger and younger age. This in turn will make the younger generations...
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...and widening our mind in the society or community we belong. While I am thinking on how to set up my theme into organized details, brain storming and concept mapping pop in the lead. In addition, I found out that my topic was full of vast ideas. Thinking that my topic was so easy, yes it is so easy but full of thoughts. For me enable to swim this wide ocean of ideas, I need to configure my thoughts and get the pearl of the orient of each subject matter that are included here. The title of my essay is technology and morality. It has a two parts; first, the part one, “the effect of computer in children s' morality; then the part two, “the social media modifying the moral standard of humanity. Nevertheless, this essay will focused only on the part one; respectively it is all about the impact of computer to the one of the parts of our society, the children. The children have a great role in our life. It is a stage of process where the stepping-stone for adolescent and adulthood...
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...Computer Game Addiction Stats and Research * Personality traits like trait anxiety, sensation seeking, neuroticism, and aggression appear to be related to the development of gaming addiction. Mehroof, M et al. (2010). Online gaming addiction: The role of sensation seeking, self-control, neuroticism, aggression, state anxiety, and trait anxiety. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13, 313-316. * Regions of the brain associated with cravings in substance abuse also appear to be activated in gaming addicts when they view images of video games. Ko, C. et al. (2009). Brain activities associated with gaming urge of online gaming addiction. Journal or Psychiatric Research, 43, 739-747. * There is a difference between "excessive gaming" and "addictive gaming". Two gamers may play for an identical number of hours each day, but their psychological motivation and the meaning that gaming has within their lives can be very different. Gaming addiction should be defined by how much the game negatively impacts others areas of life, not by how much time is spent playing. Griffiths, M et al. (2010). The role of context in online gaming excess and addiction: Some case study evidence. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8, 119-125. * In a volunteer sample, 41% of online gamers acknowledged that they use gaming as an escape. In the same sample, 7% were viewed as "dependent". These gamers possessed several behavioral attributes that...
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...Discuss the relative impact of international business on your daily life. Illustrate your evaluation with academic material from chapter 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the textbook. The impact of Apple Products on daily life As Cindy King mentioned, International Business simply means business transactions crossing national borders at any stage of the transaction. http://cindyking.biz/define-international-business/ To discuss the relative impact of international business on my daily life, i have chosen Apple Inc. as an example. Generally, international business is about two or more nations which include activities that are related with manufacturing and sales. The reason why the international business be considered as the most risky activities that is related with the business and management aspect, it is because of the fact that there are various in overall structure and cultures between various countries. Thus, the most important factor we have to focus on those differences. Being a part of Apple Inc., facing to the differences that can affect relationship as well as communications. In the connection of my daily life, one of the important application of working at Apple Inc. is about the differences in culture of individuals. Apple Inc. is hiring employees from different countries or nations, instead of Hong Kong. Due to globalization, it enables people from different countries, and being grouped together in a team or community. In this diverse environment, where in the culture...
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...* COMPUTER USE IN MILITARY Without a computer, life at UNC would be very different. For example, taking this class without a computer would be nearly impossible. Today, computers have opened up a door in the military. Computers help our military train and educate members in ways that were not possible before. In short, computers help to simplify the complexities that our military faces and allow our military to more easily assess these problems in an efficient manner. This cuts down on risks associated with training new members of the military. Also, the introduction of computers allows for a much faster training speed. * Computer Simulations There are many reasons why simulations were a perfect fit for the military, the most obvious of which is training. Training for war is a dangerous business. It is also expensive, seeing as many people need to be trained to operate many millions of dollars worth of machinery. Simulations of real life situations, and real machinery, offers the military a safer and more cost effective way to train their soldiers. Now, mistakes in training that would have previously resulted in death, injury, or huge monetary costs only result in a failure of the simulation. Therefore, it is easy to see the enormous impact computer simulations have had in the military, and the lives of the soldiers that comprise the military. * Communications Learning and communicating successfully in large groups is key to surviving on the front line in the military. Everyone...
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...the artificial intelligence we have today and the endless possibilities for artificial intelligence in the future. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a constant part of life as technology advances. Webster defines artificial intelligence as “the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it” (Wikipedia, 2010). When assessing AI, one must look at the past and present. Acquiring knowledge about the past and present of AI, the future of this ever-changing field of science allows thoughts of endless possibilities and unimaginable devices of the future; therefore, by studying and researching the advancement of this field from its past to its present, predictions for this field can be made. Method I researched information on the past, present, and future for the field of Artificial Intelligence. In researching the past of the scientific and computer field of artificial intelligence, I was able to better understand the chronological aspects of this field. These aspects include: how far we have come in our vision of AI by comparing the past and what is presently being undergone; therefore, lending itself to the endless possibilities of the advancement of AI. Results Past The history of the field of AI plays the most crucial role in understanding where AI...
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...I chose the course The role of the computer/web in my life Week one on the course Get with the real-time and stop lagging I chose the Computers and Languages module because I am not as skilled or knowledgeable in computers as I would like to be. Most people know or have a “computer geek” in their group who they turn to when they don’t understand what their computer is doing or need technology related advice. I have a friend like this. Admittedly, when he talks in “compuspeak”[1] I am a little bit clueless. Recently, this frequent ‘turning’ to my friend has got me a little dizzy. When concerning my studies and efficiency, computers and technology seem to occupy centre stage. I have therefore often wished that I was a bit more clued up, I guess this where Computers and Languages comes in! ( Yeah, you can do that on the computer too, and that, and that... As a Comparative Literature student, I considered myself more of the “creative” type, with an interest in literature/creative writing, art, film and the like. However I realise now that the computer can be used as a creative resource. In exploring possible career options, I came across many ‘creative’ roles which involved video editing, online researching, online reviewing, social networking, blogging and editing and maintaining websites. Whilst I know that this course won’t turn me into a complete “computer geek” It will help me develop the valuable skills I need to enter the ‘creative’ roles I am interested in. Spin...
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...Chapter I The Problem and Its Setting “Computers in Teaching English Language in the Selected Grade Seven Students of Puerto Galera National High School Main Campus S.Y. 20015-2016” Introduction: Living today in a newfangled world, computer seems to be an extremely important technology in our daily lives. Every difficult task can be done with the help of it. The crucial technology distinguishes its culture on all of us. It changes the individual’s ways in facing the role to community, home, work, especially in our school. This society’s willingness embrace the development also affects the creativity of teachers. At present, most teachers use this kind of modern tool as visual aids. Visual aids are assistance where the speaker’s words make more effective. It can be in a way of poster, scale model, or video that presents information visually. Visual aids can be a very significant tool to enhance the impact of presentation. Words and images presented in different formats can appeal directly to students’ imagination, adding power to your spoken words. This kind of teaching can be provided by computer because of its unique features. New upgrade way of teaching fulfills the competencies in every lesson in school. However, one from these competencies is to deal with formidable lessons in English subject. English subject supports the teaching and learning of English language and creative writing across higher education. English is also taught as a foreign language in non-...
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