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- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- From: ematias@explorer-dgp.dgp (Edgar Matias)
- Subject: Re: Seperation of Church and Elevators
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.163740.5692@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov19.163325.662@cine88.cineca.it> <cwcJuB13w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:37:40 GMT
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- > > For this particular case, I think that a horizontal representation,
- > with > "left" and "right" arrows, would do much better. I find it
- > natural to think a > the "right" direction as the direction where
- > things increase (probably > because texts grow rightwards). And, if
- > you spatialise numbers, you get > > 0 1 2 3 4 . . . > > which also
- > works.
- >
- > Sounds like an excellent idea.
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- Not too me...
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- Looks to me like numbers "grow" to the left; not the right. Here's
- my point: we all have weird notions of how things should be and what is
- and isn't intuitive. And by "weird", I actually mean "subjective".
- The elevator in question was designed for use by the average person;
- not for any one person. I think using an up arrow to indicate "up" would
- be understood by most people. Don't you? ?-)
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- > mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- > >bassi@cs.unibo.it (Bruno Bassi) writes:
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- Edgar
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- Edgar Matias
- Input Research Group
- University of Toronto
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- I speak for no one...
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