Seahorse

[reynt0]

(Sorry about the late post, am just catching up on
some skipped emails and my comment might have some
wider relevance though stimulated by the quoted email.)

On 10/11/2010, Robert J. Hansen wote:

> On 10/8/2010 10:16 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>> If you ever decide to promote that alternate interface, the approach
>> I would try is to sneak it in by actually making it an alternative
>
> This is one of the things we were specifically warned against in HCI.
> Give people two interfaces and the new interface will never supplant the
> old.  When new users encounter problems and ask for help, the first
> thing the old-timer will do is say, "well, first, go back to the old
> interface, that's the one I know the best."  The newcomer will do so and
> won't switch back afterwards, both out of a spirit of "all the experts
> use the old interface" and "nobody can help me with this new interface,
> so I'd better use the old."

Unless of course the "old-timer" is flexible and up to
speed?  And maybe related, was the research upon which
that Human-Computer Interface class was based maybe
done before the "new era" of users (ie the era which
started a couple of years ago :-) ), and maybe its
applicability to the modern world needs to be re-evaluated?