Interface Examples

Modified: 2020-04-02

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• Test hints indicated in RED
• Door Handles:
  • 1951 Ford, notice how it pulls down and how gravity has affected over its 69 year life
  • HondaCRX. this one invites you to pull it out with your left hand
  • 2003 Dodge Caravan, this one, too, requires your left hand
  • 1999 Chevrolet PU, here you must pull up with four fingers with either hand
  • 2003 VW Beetle, another left handed pull required
• Remotes:
  • Remote Control 1, These next two were student exercises in designing a TV remote
  • Remote Control 2,
  • Sony Remote, The students had not seen this SONY remote before
  • Sony Remote name,
  • You Tube Sony,
• Houses:
  • Tiny House Blog, interesting to consider a whole house as an interface and to try to minimize it to its essentials
  • Hermit DeLuxe Plans,
• Codes:
  • QR Codes QR codes require a smartphone or similar device so they are not an interface humans can understand without those tools
• Wearable computing:
  • Google Glass failed as a consumer product, but useful in industry because it allows both hands to be free
  • Do's and Don'ts, old Google page advising consumers how to act while wearing Google Glasses
  • Don't be a glass..., another old (2014) article advising wearers how not to offend others while wearing Google Glasses
  • Laforge another product similar to Google Glasses but hardly distinguishable from normal eyeglasses
  • Wearable Tech newer article (1/2019) discussing new trends in wearable tech
• Mobile Devices
  • Electric Meter notice how hard it is to properly read the meter below, the dials spin in different directions

    

• One CS class tried to design a smartphone web page for SAU. Which one do you like best?
  • SAU Cell Phone Web Page I
  • SAU Cell Phone Web Page II
  • SAU Cell Phone Web Page III
• Physical
  • Toe Kick (Cabinets)
• Elevators
  • Limiting factor in skyscraper height the weight of the rope as a limiting factor is interesting
• Gaming/Practical the first example below is about gaming, the second one is a strength amplifying external interface
  • Mechs You Tube
    Exoskeleton
    • Scene from Alien where she uses an exoskeleton power loader to fight the alien

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