On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:38:00PM +0300, Ovidiu Sabou wrote:
supposed to answer simple questions and offer the full
article. And no, it's
not an office assistant; talking to a humanoid virtual character is
certainly more natural than talking to an edit box.
That assertion, and assertions similar to it, are made fairly often.
I'm not sure it's valid as a response here on two fronts:
1) I don't know that it's actually *accurate*: do you have user
studies that back it up?
2) Who said that computer program user interfaces *ought* to be
"natural", whatever 'natural' quite means?
Optimizing for the wrong thing is a common failing in all types of
design; just ask Alan Cooper. (Though he and I would probably differ
on which instances are the errors...)
Cheers,
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