Daily Archives: February 10, 2007

Kids and Interfaces

Feb
10
2007

I was watching a young child play with one of those massage chairs the other day at a furniture store. Now they had never seen one of these before, but I was amazing to see how they responded. They sat down on the chair, and immediately began start pressing the buttons. Seeking out the largest buttons first, and then the green ones. A few attempts and they had the chair powered up. They then started to cycle through the options in order to find the settings that suited them, using the details on the LCD display. Now this child is not able to read yet, so the words on the buttons are meaningless. The amazing thing about this was that within a few minutes they had the chair configured the way they wanted it. They just muddled through it and with the use the graphics on the LCD to configured the chair. In some ways they had the chair operational in a shorter time period than some adults.