Issues of the interface

This blog post is going to focus on the complex issues of interface. User interface is a means by which people interact with a particular machine, device or computer programme.

Interface is a boundary across where by two independent systems meet and act upon, or communicate with each other. You may be questioning where you do actually find interfaces, the answer would be everywhere! They are found in both desktops and handsets and it is likely that you will have a relationship with many on a daily basis.

In computer technology there are several types of interfaces that we all use pretty much on a daily basis. To begin I will explain what the varieties of interfaces are and how we use them frequently without necessarily realising we are doing so. A user interface includes devices such as keyboards, mouse’s and menus on the computer system… All of which I have used to create this blog post. The user interface allows the user to communicate with the operating system and complete all documents/ take part in research. Transferring such a simple action into something a little more complex is usually quite hard to understand; in this instant it is easier to imagine the user interfaces as a connection between us as humans and the action that is completed on the computer/ adequate piece of technology. We give the keyboards instructions by tapping each key and it is furthermore the interface, which allows the words to deliver on the screen we are watching.

Software interface is ultimately the language and codes that the applications individually use to communicate with each other and with the hardware. Then finally the hardware interface is the wires, plus and sockets that hardware devices use to communicate with each other.

I'm aware that all the issues discussed above are complicated and a little complex, but the easiest way to get your head round the meanings of interface would simply be that they all individually transfer a message to one and another, allowing us users to use the technology to the best of our ability.

We have spoken in quite some detail about computer interfaces and how our actions deliver us with messages on screen, but a more diverse theory presented is the question as to weather human bodies in itself can be an interface?

This might seem a little ludicrous, but when related to the example of dance matts it’s a little more realistic. We plug in a dance matt to a television, this delivers the most obvious interface, but furthermore as we move around the codes are being delivered on screen as the matt notices when we hit the different areas. This then sets up the question, as maybe interfaces aren’t as simple as initially noted? Interfaces are frequently addressed daily in our lives and maybe we just don’t realise?

If I was to then say that it is possible to define our faces an interface, it might seem again a little far-fetched, but this is in fact the case. A CCTV machine will recognise your face and could easily notice if you have been seen before. Face recognition is a common device used by many. You may not realise your face has been recognised, but it would have been. Walking down the street isn’t as simple anymore, by doing so you would have connected with various interfaces without necessarily even realising!!