Computers, as with all other devices, must be designed to take into account the abilities and proclivities of human users, and not impose impossible tasks on them.
With the number of users booming, human resource experts say an employee airing -- or tweeting -- dirty laundry about work is a company train wreck waiting to happen.
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"We don't demand that users prove they're human, " Sehgal says.
Impower and its human resources partner Penna will work alongside service users, staff and senior managers.
Instead of submitting users to a test, the Atlanta-based company's technology plugs into Web sites and invisibly analyzes users' online behavior to determine who's a human and who's a bot.
The objective is to mimic human interactions so closely that the device disappears from consciousness, leaving the users to communicate though all their senses.
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The goal (and belief) is that users can break stories faster than traditional outlets and a set of human eyes can differentiate newsworthy stories from the noise.
Human Japanese app designer Brian Rak says he'll be improving the quizzes so users can select the continuous "freestyle mode" of quizzes or a version that awards points toward an overall score.
The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
Moreover, in terms of usability this smartphone is in a class of its own thanks to a high-performance 1.5 Ghz dual core CPU and the latest version of the Human Centric Engine, offered by Fujitsu to make for easy operations through technology that adapts to users and usage environments.
If Internet users are expected to double to close to 1 billion by 2005, according to the UNDP Human Development Report 2002, it is hard to see how the imbalance in favour of developed countries is going to be redressed in the foreseeable future without strong political motivation.
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