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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 23:44:45 EDT
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I have to agree with Laura.  Human factors people tend to design for the
naive user.  Being a hacker, when given the choise between a user interface
designed by a hacker and one designed by a human factors engineer, I will
take the hacker's version any day.

I think that cognitive engineering is mostly common sense.  It is just
about as much of a discipline as systems engineering.  (Actually, that's
not a criticism; common sense is a very valuable commodity.)
				Waiting for the flames and
				Hoping that a cognitive engineer
				Doesn't ever get his hands on UNIX,
				Kenneth Almquist