Re: What do users understand?

From: Diane I. Hillmann <dih1_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:03:52 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
And I have grandsons age 8 and 9--they'd be really impressed if Grandma 
could generate a fart from her phone (they need no such assistance!)

Diane

Karen Coyle wrote:
> Janet Hill wrote:
>> But maybe koi
>> ponds, or apps that let you record your hotel room number, or ones 
>> that tell
>> you where you parked your car (and where it is from where you are) 
>> would be
>> the result of "users gone wild" with programming, and each of us 
>> could pick
>> and choose which app to use, according to what our need of the moment 
>> might
>> be.
>>  
>
> Yeah! We need 'senior apps.' ! For those of us who can't remember why 
> we walked into this room -- a list of reasons why we've walked into it 
> before. A gps of the house with all the places where I might have left 
> my car keys. And all of those 'smart appliances' and things? I want a 
> hand-held that compares my shopping list to what's in my shopping 
> cart, since I usually get home with at least one thing that I didn't 
> remember to get (in most cases, the most important).
>
> Now THERE'S a growing market ;-).
>
> kc
>
Received on Mon Mar 16 2009 - 12:05:21 EDT