From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!news2.euro.net!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder2.news.jippii.net!feeder1.news.jippii.net!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read3.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: AWI003@FIW9430 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [OT]Screen ergonomics, was Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) References: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> <1095860313.176522@yasure> From: Anders Wirzenius Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:04:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.251.142.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi X-Trace: read3.inet.fi 1096005847 194.251.142.2 (Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:04:07 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:04:07 EEST Organization: Sonera corp Internet services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4086 Date: 2004-09-24T06:04:07+00:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves writes: > >> Why are printed newspapers still popular even if a lot of people > >> have a permanent, uninterrupted Internet connection and are able to > >> rapidly move even between several electronic newspapers? > > Because a newspaper is a set of unrelated articles, and we read the > > articles from beginning to end. And we don't have to edit the > > newspaper, just read it. Newspaper writers and editors universally do > > their work on a computer screen. > > I don't understand this explanation. > > My answer would be along these lines. On a big paper sheet there are > different content items, or different parts of some content. You have > to locate a part, focus on it, to read it. Same goes for the whole > (printed) newspaper. On a small screen only one part fits. The others > are away. So what is different is how the user locates parts. With a > printed paper you only have to turn your eyes or head to look at a > different part. And you can even move a sheet up/down/left/right so > the part under inspection stays more aligned with the eyes. You cannot > do that with a small screen. Maybe with an eyetracking system you can > simulate that, but I doubt it will work as well. This is exactly what I tried to explain in the metaphor about the reading a newspaper through a frame. Anders