From: Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro Subject: Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: SIDs & HMDs Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <32708220.5C7D@nada.kth.se> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology John Draper wrote: > To say that something is better than another thing HF-wise, you must > really specify what the mission of the thing is. Good HF requires > designing for the mission, not in the abstract. A joystick is superior > HF-wise for fighter planes, but not for automobiles, for (trivial) > example. Not necessarily, the experiments SAAB has done with a joystick-controlled car seems to me to indicate that a steering wheel is more of a historical accident that remains for no good (HF) reason... -- Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro email: kai@nada.kth.se "Don't win, don't lose." IPLab voice: +46 8 790 62 79 -- Yoshigasaki-sensei NADA, KTH fax: +46 8 790 09 30 S-100 44 Stockholm telex: 812 6154 1156 SICS SWEDEN teletex:2401-812 6154 1156=SICS