HCI and the Economy

Advantages

HCI has good impacts on the economy; some businesses use internet to advertise and sell their products and that will boost their sales. As economy grows, some companies develop new computerised systems and that also boosts the company’s sales. Online banking also helped the economy as it makes it easier for users to transfer money and pay bills directly.

Disadvantages

 

Some hackers use advertisements and e-mails and pretend to be a real bank and scam other users in getting their personal details and bank account details. Also, as new technology develops, some companies throw their old computer systems and dump it somewhere out of the country. Some of the computer waste or e-waste has dangerous chemicals and it will pollute the environment and people around it.

Reducing the complexity of input

Reducing the difficulty of input has a good impact on the economy. For example, cars have so many and complicated settings on the HUD. By making the settings easier, more people will be comfortable and they will understand how the system works. The economy will benefit on these type of technology because if a company develops something that is easy to use, more people will buy the equipment.

Increased automation

This will need less manual labour, which means that a company don’t need many employees. The company will save money because they will pay less for the manual labour and this will make their product cheap. One disadvantage of this type of technology is people cannot afford to spend lots of money because there are only few jobs left.

Speed up inputs

This technology can read documents in a really fast time and it rarely makes a mistake from reading a document or file. It speeds up the processing of documents and files. The economy will save money because they will not employ someone to read any documents anymore. They could just use a speed reader.

Text readers

This is a software that can read text in Internet Explorer, MS Word, Adobe pdf files and e-mails. The effect of text reader in economy is a person who is finding hard to read can use this type of software and they will understand the text. This will make them buy the software or even buy a computer because there is a software that can help them to overcome their difficulties therefore boosting the economy with sales.

Automatic judgement of output

Automation is the use of control systems to reduce the need of people working in production. Automation is one of the important roles in the economy. The effect of this technology in economy is people now use automation to make their life easier and this will help them. For example, in a factory they can use automation to produce their product easily rather than letting the workers do the manual work.  This will help the factory to meet their deadlines and their target number of products.

Voice Input

Voice recognition is one of the most used computer input devices. It is one of the easiest methods for data entry because you don’t have to type out the words, you can just speak and the computer will recognize the words and type it out for you. Some products recognize 30,000 word vocabularies to 60,000 words. Some of the voice recognition software recognizes 95% of the words. The effect of this technology in the economy is people will use this software to make it easier for them to do some tasks. This will also help an organisation create documents because they can just speak and the software will type what they are writing.  This will be easier for workers.

Thought input

Thought input is one of the new technologies that are being developed by companies. This technology allows a user to use his thoughts to control a computer system. For example, if you want to dial a phone number, all you have to do is think of that number and the phone will dial the number that you are thinking of. This technology has a good impact on economy as it will be easy for other people to use a computer. For example, a handicapped user or employee could just use thought input to do his work. This could increase the productivity of a company.

Mobile Communication

Mobile communication is a type of communication that you can use while on the go. Mobile phones, laptops are the examples of this communication. This technology allows us to communicate even if we are on the bus, car, or a train going to work. This has a good impact on the economy because people can now arrange meetings and communicate with each other just by using a mobile phone.