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Those days are long gone when placing a telephone call meant simply picking up the receiver and asking the operator to patch you
Those days are long gone when placing a telephone call meant simply picking up the receiver and asking the operator to patch you
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2015-06-24
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Those days are long gone when placing a telephone call meant simply picking up the receiver and asking the operator to patch you through. Modem cell phones require users to navigate a series of menus to find numbers, place calls or check messages. Even the most tech-savvy may take weeks to discover some of the more mysterious multimedia functions. Imagine the difficulty forsomeone unable to read.
That is the challenge for mobile communications companies aiming to branch out into developing countries. The prospects seen from the last decade are alluring: only about one third of China’s vast population and about one tenth of India’s use cell phones. But selling to poor rural areas is not likely to happen with a marketing version of "plug and play." Most potential buyers have little exposure to anything other than simple electronics. Reading through a series of hierarchical menus and pushing buttons for multiple purposes would be new concepts for such customers.
To come up with a suitable device, Motorola relied on a team of anthropologists, psychologists and designers to study how textually illiterate villagers use their aging televisions, tape players and phones.
The researchers noticed that their subjects would learn each button’s dedicated function With something more complicated, such as an automated teller machine, users would memorize a set of behaviors in order, which allowed them to move through the machine’s basic hierarchy without having to read the menu.The research, which lasted three years, led Motorola to craft a cellular phone slimmed down to three essential activities: calling, managing numbers and simple text messaging. "A lot of the functions in a cell phone are not useful to anyone," points out Gabriel White, who headed the interactive design team.The icon-based interface also required thought.
Not all cell phone companies believe that a design for nonliterate users should start from scratch. Nokia’s behavioral researchers noticed that "newbies" rely on friends and relatives to help them with basic functions. Rather than confronting the challenge of a completely new interface, Nokia chose to provide some audio menus in its popular 1100 model and a preview mode so that people could try out functions without the risk of changing anything important. Mobile phones may even become tools for literacy, predicts BJ Fogg, who studies computer-human interaction at Stanford University. Phones might teach the alphabet or tell a story as users read along. "Imagine if it eventually could understand your weak points and drill you on those," Fogg proposes. And soon enough, he declares, designs or illiterate users will lead to more straightforward, elegant phones for everyone.
The difference between modern cell phones and old phones lies in that
选项
A、it requires more intelligence and education to use modern cell phones.
B、it takes more weeks to get familiar with modern cell phones.
C、modem cell phones are more complicated with many functions.
D、modern cell phones are more mysterious tools for people.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。答案在第一段。该段主要就是介绍了过去的老式电话和现代手机使用方式上的不同,突出了现代手机纷繁复杂的功能及其对用户造成的困扰,故选C项。A项内容在文中并无提及,属过度推断;文中讲到手机玩家也需要几周时间来熟悉现代手机,B项中的more weeks推断过度;此外文中提到现代手机的某些功能比较隐秘,而非手机本身是比较隐秘的工具,D项张冠李戴了。
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考研英语一
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