Internet Tools: Making Advances at ARC
The human factor in gadget, Web design, CNet
“…companies, universities and even government agencies like NASA are investing time and dollars as they take a hard look at how people interact with technology. “Design is starting to change who succeeds and who fails,” said Alonso Vera, a senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center who’s also a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. “A few years ago that wasn’t true. If I had a better algorithm, I would win,” he said.”