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...have worked with programmers to make it as user-friendly as possible,” said Sarah R. Phillips, a reference librarian in Widener Library...
...system is based on web technology, which is more compatible with other systems and allows for expanded HOLLIS features, Verba said. A main feature of the new system is a point-and-click based user interface that replaces the old system’s typed commands...
...this exurban behemoth (larger than the city of Denver itself, it covers 53 sq. mi.), with its tentlike spires and cavernous, convention-hall interior, has its user-unfriendly quirks. Passengers who are dropped off at the airport by cab or rental-car van find themselves, for some odd reason, at the exit. To reach the ticket counter, they have to lug their bags up an escalator. The three gate concourses are connected by a train system that is fast and convenient-except when it's not working (which lately has not been very often and usually for only short periods...
...ASIMO was designed with that in mind, says Hirose. The robot is light (52 kilos), lest it stumble and pin a user to the floor, triggering a product-liability lawsuit. Yet it's tall enough to reach light switches and doorknobs or to clear the table. Its mini-cam "eyes" are level with those of a sitting adult for easy communication, and its humanlike form is meant to break down our inhibitions toward sharing a home with a talking toaster...
Microsoft Word 2002 takes up 96 million bytes on a user's hard drive. The DNA equivalent of just 12 million bytes of compressed data, by Kurzweil's estimate, controls human brain development. Clearly, something other than size matters in the design of instructions...