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From: drascic@ecf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <301@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 13:35:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: mv03.301
Posted: Fri Oct  2 13:35:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 10:39:24 EDT
Organization: Engineering Computing Facility, University of Toronto
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Keywords: human factors, interfaces



I'm posting this for a friend who does not have USENET access.  Please
e-mail replies to me, and I will forward them to him.  (or post them,
if you want....)

POSTING FOLLOWS:

Hello.  I have recently found myself in the position of having to present
a lecture on Human Factors in Human Computer Interface design to a large
number of programmers, most of whom have never heard of Human Factors.  In
an effort to avoid being dry and boring I would like to have a fair repetoire
of anecdotes to entertain and illustate the general principals I will be
discussing.  Unfortunately I know very few.  (most of my reading is journal
articles --- good, but pretty dry).

So I'm asking you folks for amusing and/or interesting stories dealing with
Human Factors design.  They can be apocryphal, or personal experience,
just please indicate which.  I'll even give you credit for them if you
really want it.

		-john schrag

END OF POSTING

That's it.  You can try mailing me at drascic@ecf.toronto.edu, or just
use the reply.... the mailer daemon gets grumpy sometimes,though.

-dd