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1. The Psychology of Everyday Things
April 5, 2013 Kerry Phillips
Sink Faucets
You’re visiting a friend and helping to make dinner.
First you need to wash your hands. You are an
intelligent adult, so this should be easy. But if your
friend has decided to dress up her kitchen with a fancy
new sink faucet this could be more difficult than you
had imagined.
Since we all use sinks every day we have a conceptual
model for how we expect a faucet to work. You turn on
the water and turn the handle to the desired
temperature. Yet these advances in faucet technology
don’t always work that way. Checkout.jpg
Now you can find a faucet that you touch the faucet to
turn it on. It might be normal to find a no touch faucet in
a public restroom, but you can now find the sensor
Self Check Out
technology in a private home as well. Just looking at a Nowadays many grocery stores allow customers
faucet, with a sleek new design, does not indicate how to check themselves out, or to ring up their own
it is to be used. purchases. This is a great idea! If you have just a
few items you can get yourself through the line
Without a visible handle with the hot and cold sign with much faster and be on your way.
directional indications, a simple task of washing your
hands could seem near impossible. Or it is great in theory and sometimes in practice,
but it is not entirely “self” guided.
While these new types of faucets attempt to make life
easier, by going against our conceptual model of how a When these lanes were developed there had to be
faucet should work, our lives are a little bit more some features in place to protect the store from
confusing. theft. Sensors in the bagging section is one. Once
you scan your item you are to put it in the bag, and
do it fast or you might get yelled at. Oh and don’t
try to move things around because that will get
you scolded by the machine as well. The system
recognizes the weights of the items and if the
weight doesn’t match then it is determined that
you are trying to steal something from the store.
This might be the case but there could be other
reasons.
Other issues arise when the scanner doesn’t pick
up the code or you can’t find your produce on the
list of items from which you can choose. Often
times your solution for getting out of the store
quick, backfires.
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