ABSTRACT
In 1996, Bob Cringely wrote: “People care about people. We watch version after version of the same seven stories on television simply for that reason. More than 80 percent of our brains are devoted to processing visual information, because that’s how we most directly perceive the world around us. In time, all this will be mirrored in new computing technologies” [1]. Bob Cringely was right; this progression toward visually based computing technologies is occurring universally. Just think about how much more graphic our screen interfaces have become, replacing text with images of wrenches and gears meaning “this is the edit button, and that’s the settings button.”
