Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Monday, June 06, 2005

MyFoodPhone: Nice implementation of persuasive technology

An interesting application of persuasive technology ...

"MyFoodPhone lets you monitor what you're eating and change the amount/quality of food you eat.

* It's pretty simple, actually.
* With a camera phone, you take pictures of what you eat.
* You upload the pictures to your personal dietitian.
* Once a week, your dietitian analyzes your information.
* She then sends you a video clip of feedback.
* Follow your dietitian's advice and you should begin to see results.

Nice blend of technology and people (the product doesn't try to do everything--it simply augments the abilities of expert dieticians)."   continued ...   (Via Captology Notebook)

myfoodphone - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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