human computer interaction; the research, study, planning, and design of the interaction between people and computers.
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Questions tagged [hci]
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Close [X] vs Minimise [_]
Three questions:
What is the rationale behind changing the close [X] button behaviour (exit the application) to minimise an application as an icon on the taskbar?
Why change close as opposed to the minimise button?
Is there a way, possibly…
Dave Jarvis
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How to force hcitool scan
I'm using hcitool to discover BT devices.
hcitool scan
I works great but when it succeeds, the successive invocations will return the contents of the discovery cache and return immediately. I need a way to force the scanning to make sure I always…
allprog
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Future HCI (Human Computer Interaction) interfaces
I am finding that WIMP is becoming a broken paradigm. If you have enough screens and enough rdp terminals open, and enough browser tabs it starts to work against you. Given that the ideas behind windowing systems is over thirty years old, is there…
Jeremy French
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Failed to read attribute values of a device while connected via bluetoothctl terminal
I'm trying to read the values of various services exposed by my earbuds, but every UUID I try is giving me the same results "Failed to read: org.bluez.Error.Failed";
command manual execution chain:
sudo bluetoothctl
info
Device 6C:D3:EE:6E:B9:15…
veet
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What ways to disable distracting animations on web sites?
When you're trying to access some information on the web, but the site has some glossy feature (Animated GIFs, Flash, etc. e.g.) that distracts from just concentrating on it's content, e.g. www.london.gov.uk. How to turn this "feature" off?
By the…
Rob Kam
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