Exercise 3

What influence does the social environment in which you work have on your interaction with the computer? What effect does the organization (commercial or academic) to which you belong have on the interaction?


Answer: the social environment influences me on my interaction with the computers by sharing me information and new knowledge it has. It keeps me curious and eager to know more about a certain thing and keeps me use the computer to learn. Moreover, I am now more exposed to an environment with wealthy of understanding about technology. The organization such as the academic organization helps me interact with the computers more. It helps me do thing easier and more comfortable.

Most number of people nowadays does have mobile phones and computers and I am one of them. Mobile phone and computers are two of the products of technology that interacts with human. As a user , social environment really affect on how I interact with the computer. One of the particular influences that affect us from interacting is the work context. Work context answers the question are the machines shared? As for me, I do not like shared machines because it does greatly influence your interaction practice with that particular machine.

I definitely believe on social environment plays a big part in our lives. One social unit which provide and furnish you as what you are is what we called "Family". It is the principal institution for the socialization of children. This provoke the cultural, traditional, emotional and spiritual attributes of a child.

According to a certain site, how we behave, our relationships, our gender and ethnic group, our education and work, the conditions and communities in which we live, and how we feel about ourselves are all elements of the social environment. These elements show where people living in a particular environment have a great influence on his living especially on the interaction with computer. If you are living in city, you are disposed to high technologies and in advance learning. In contrast, occupying in rural areas is not associated much what new generation brings. One of the influences that could affect to people is through decision making. DECISION MAKING is an organizational process because it has an effect on organizational goals of an individual.

Human-machine interaction marks big sense to me, especially that I’m on the field of technology where computer and machines are studied to develop a resourceful and useful technological products. It’s never been new to me to see new faces of technology though I am amaze sometimes. It true to reality that social environment affects the interaction of human to the computers. It helps the people whom are uses the technological machinery available these days to interact effectively. According to the book of Alan Dix entitled “Human Computer Interaction”, social environment includes work context, peer pressure, management pressure, motivation, organizational goals, organizational decision making and also the work groups. All of these influences will vary the human interaction environment to environment.


Work Context. Work context influences the shared work place. Based from experience, the laboratories really affect the interaction of the machines to human. There are some instances that each of the students inside the laboratory can interact with the available resources. From that sense, interaction will be limited caused by the limited resources available. Hence, it will cause uncertainty and inconstant interaction between the users.


Peer Pressure. Interaction too do have competition, it is the competition between the users. It begins with the pressure that the human feels when once the machine is used. They will focus on not because they want to know and understand the machine but because of the competition exist between the users.

Management Pressure. Interaction too involves pressure in achieving. Especially in school, its one way of feeling pressure when you need to know and understand certain software of machine for your project. This pressure may affect in terms of time pressure and the pressure to the organization in which we belong. Probably, there is the pressure that takes us to learn quickly about the resources without enjoying it. And it could be a pressure that the organization in which you are belongs expects something from you, lastly;

Group mates. The human interaction also affects by the group mates we have working with certain activities. They might influence others to learn about the resources and make applications out of it. This will greatly help others especially when they learn out of the process of learning from others.

The influence which the social environment do work on our interaction with the computer is the work place which is one of the factor that influence us in interacting on the computer it is because all of the establishment nowadays are using already a computer or the high-tech devices on their offices, another is the peer which also influence in interacting us to the computer for they are competing and impress us on how they use the newest technology today. These influences may help us to consider the other possible in identifying the interaction to those circumstances in the environment.