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I think there's so much innovation ahead with HCI. We've pushed the boundaries of what can be done with touchscreens, and I'm excited to see a pragmatic reincor

I think there's so much innovation ahead with HCI. We've pushed the boundaries of what can be done with touchscreens, and I'm excited to see a pragmatic reincorporation of physical buttons, wheels, sliders, etc. Touchscreens are great for developers but often terrible for users.

pvg 4y ago
Touchscreens are terrible for users when they replace familiar and well-established physical controls. Touchscreens have made computer interfaces far more accessible, though - lots of people you see on, say, public transit flicking expertly through their phone never got nearly as handy with a mouse or trackpad. Toddlers use touch screens while decades of command line availability saw virtually no CLI adoption in that user segment.
- anderspitman 4y ago
  It's not just well-established controls. Some things are simply better with physical buttons you don't have to look at. For example, I wish I had a small wheel on my wrist that I could use to control the volume of my phone/headphones.
- 0x445442 4y ago
  To me CLI is just a version of natural language processing. I think NLP will continue to gain ground. Alexa is already mainstream and I think a fair bit of the population does hands free dictation on messaging apps. I'm really interested in NLP/messaging apps as a platform for "applications". I saw a video a couple of weeks ago showing Musk questioning why Twitter wasn't WeChat yet. I think he's on the right track here because I think people are overloaded with the schizophrenia of the web's UI. It varies so much from site to site and app to app. I think people would take nicely to a consolidation of some of their most used tasks into a single UI paradigm.
  - pvg 4y ago
    I think we're going to see lots more NLP applications in HCI but it feels more than a bit of a stretch to say CLIs are 'just a version' of NLP. The distinction between formal and natural language is a big deal and at the core of the growing importance of NLP (it kinda works now whereas before it kinda didn't).
    - foobiekr 4y ago
      CLIs provide structure. Real CLIs, such as the Junos operational and configuration CLIs provide rich structure and everything that comes from that.
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pvg 4y ago

Touchscreens are terrible for users when they replace familiar and well-established physical controls. Touchscreens have made computer interfaces far more accessible, though - lots of people you see on, say, public transit flicking expertly through their phone never got nearly as handy with a mouse or trackpad. Toddlers use touch screens while decades of command line availability saw virtually no CLI adoption in that user segment.

anderspitman 4y ago
It's not just well-established controls. Some things are simply better with physical buttons you don't have to look at. For example, I wish I had a small wheel on my wrist that I could use to control the volume of my phone/headphones.
0x445442 4y ago
To me CLI is just a version of natural language processing. I think NLP will continue to gain ground. Alexa is already mainstream and I think a fair bit of the population does hands free dictation on messaging apps. I'm really interested in NLP/messaging apps as a platform for "applications". I saw a video a couple of weeks ago showing Musk questioning why Twitter wasn't WeChat yet. I think he's on the right track here because I think people are overloaded with the schizophrenia of the web's UI. It varies so much from site to site and app to app. I think people would take nicely to a consolidation of some of their most used tasks into a single UI paradigm.
- pvg 4y ago
  I think we're going to see lots more NLP applications in HCI but it feels more than a bit of a stretch to say CLIs are 'just a version' of NLP. The distinction between formal and natural language is a big deal and at the core of the growing importance of NLP (it kinda works now whereas before it kinda didn't).
  - foobiekr 4y ago
    CLIs provide structure. Real CLIs, such as the Junos operational and configuration CLIs provide rich structure and everything that comes from that.

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