[cap-talk] Google Chrome - web browser with sandboxed rendering

[ihab.awad at gmail.com]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
> i believe a basic issue is that the mapping from high-level user goals
> to what a computer system actually does is capricious from the
> non-computer-geek user's perspective.

An answer -- one in which I put some credence -- is object oriented
user interfaces. I claim end-users can be made to understand a model
where each "thing" has behavior and encapsulates state. This is not
trivial to teach but, once taught, can be a re-usable meme. This does
not solve the problem of how to explain the effects of the users'
designation of these objects, but it gives us a convenient place to
put these explanations and reify in the end-users' mental model the
nouns that these explanations refer to.

> if there were a way for ui to leverage
> humans' natural social awareness, that might help; there are real
> world situations where humans are equipped to have a gut feel for
> risk.

Precisely; this is the approach I would counsel.

Ihab

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Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA