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Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has increasingly become more significant in people’s everyday lives, having an impact on our society, culture and economy.
Impact on society.
Modern devices are becoming more user- friendly by every year. Interfaces are designed so every kind of user could be able to work with it. Input and output processes are designed to be simple as possible. Nowadays you don’t need any spectacular knowledge to use technologies. Touch screen phones that has become as most popular mobile device has very user friendly operating systems. They have many functions to make the use of the device as simple as possible, for instance, voice recognition. Android, Apple and other operating systems has inbuilt voice recognition which can be used to do processes on phone by voice. The technology still has some voice recognition problems but it is getting better by every operating system update. Developments for people with disabilities are also implemented in touch screen phones technologies. Such as text to speech technology that can be used for any text can be used for people with sight problems. Interfaces such as navigation can be used in any driver car or sailing or even on military operations. Taxi drivers can see the shortest road to make the best experience for clients. Navigation technologies with graphical design are used in almost every sailing boat or yacht nowadays as that ensures the safety.
Impact on culture.
Applications on smartphones change everyone’s life. Many of them improves user productivity, some of them are used for entertainment. Smartphones has many of them installed as customer buys the phone, such as calculator and calendar to make sure basic features are accessible immediately. One of the most recent and popular development that is implemented in every android smartphone is Google Maps where anyone can see almost any place in the world. Others can see places and decide whether is worth to travel to particular. Many social networks can be downloaded on smartphones where people can chat and discuss. HCI developments in culture allow people to preview places and do things without going out of the home.
The amount of time we spend using our mobile phones has affected culture. The applications we download changes us because many of us would find it hard or even boring to live a day without them. Sometimes smartphone applications may even get addicting and waste our time. In the other hand, because smartphones are getting more powerful in processing power it gives opportunity for endless types of applications each of them changing our lives.
Impact on economy.
As technology changes our lives, it also changes the way we communicate. Smartphones helps us to communicate in many different ways, making us accessible to others more easily. Even business meetings may happen over conference calls and anyone can contact with email so they don’t even need to meet face to face. This technology saves our time and possibly money as we don’t need to travel to see someone and tell important information.
Smartphones enable new services and applications that provide opportunities to generate income. Furthermore, the access to information and increased communication through smartphones communication increases productivity.
Of course, many programmers make money by making smartphone applications, some of them making them millionaires. Even though smartphones may be expensive at the time we buy them, the money can pay off by all features it can offer, so many features makes smartphone in huge multi-tool device that can be used for almost any purpose.
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