Memory and stuff
Today in ISAD we went into memory again for half of the lecture, the long term memory, short term memory and the working memory and how we can use these when making our system.
We then went on to looking at focused and divided attention…how to get people’s attention and stuff like that.
The practicles this week have been moved around and because of the time they’ve been re-schechued for I am unable to attend…but I will continue to work on my essay.
The system that I want to look into is the Self Scan checkouts are the supermarkets Asda and Tesco’s, as I work at Asda and normally supervise these tills every Saturday and Monday evening I can see them being used by different people of various ages and computer ability.
I am also right there to take note of how people interact with them, think of them, how easy they think it is to use etc, given me a bit of an advantge on the research I need to do for this essay.
However I haven’t yet passed this idea driectly to John Forde, I mentioned it a bit at the end of the last practical but haven’t discussed it in depth.
I also have to re-read the brief and see if doing the Self Scan checkouts will be approriate to meet the critea to pass.
