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- From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Seperation of Church and Elevators
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:33:47 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
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- bassi@cs.unibo.it (Bruno Bassi) writes:
-
- >For this particular case, I think that a horizontal representation, with
- >"left" and "right" arrows, would do much better. I find it natural to think at
- >the "right" direction as the direction where things increase (probably
- >because texts grow rightwards). And, if you spatialise numbers, you get
-
- > 0 1 2 3 4 . . .
-
- >which also works.
-
- >Any comments?
-
- Well, er, yes. You may find it natural for text to grow rightward, but
- people who read right-to-left (Hebrew, etc.) or bidirectionally (can't
- remember this one) may not find it natural at all. Up/Down may not be
- the best, but in this case it is a less restricting choice, especially
- when you consider how internationally these products are marketed.
-
- I agree that there's got to be a better way, and I'm sure someone will
- design something that makes us all feel pretty stupid for not thinking of
- it before. :-)
-
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