> "Part of the solution may be to shield us from knowing that the computer is working to solve a problem. In reality, there is no reason why we need to look at

> "Part of the solution may be to shield us from knowing that the computer is working to solve a problem. In reality, there is no reason why we need to look at an incomprehensible box with commands or a frozen computer. The computer could easily solve the problems without displaying this, while it provided a back-up version of the system for us, so that we could continue to work with our tasks undisturbed," says Kasper Hornbæk Says the researcher who has no practical experience in development. While it's true that some OSes (I'm looking at you, Windows) and applications have less than stellar UIs, getting the entire stack (including hardware) to cooperate on a consistent basis is exceedingly difficult without NASA-level engineering. Given how many parts of a computer (again, both hardware and software) are churned out with an eye more towards profit than reliability, it's a miracle things work as well as they do.