BUSINESS APPLICATION SIRI
ITM 433 MOD 02 SLP
HUGH DAVIS
As technology increases, the quantity of accessible information at your fingertips increases exponentially. Time is money and information is power. The ramification stemming from bottlenecks that impedes accessibility to critical information in in the business sector is far reaching. One of the breathtaking Information Technology Innovative Advancement, in recent years is the HCI called SIRI. Human interaction technology as SIRI is narrowing the bridge between humans and the computing matrix, thus increasing our ability to communicate efficiently with computer hardware and advance software. This HCI transitional process reduces computing learning bell curves, saves time, money, heighten our computing experience, and make HCI transition a seamless one.
The company Siri Inc. chose the Apple’s App Store as the as the medium for unveiling Siri. Siri marketing package is genius at best; Apple created very sophisticate software that brandish a user-interface that is simplistic in nature even though it masks the brain of the operation, the sophisticated software running in the background. There is no intimidation factor when using this software. Siri interface is fully contingent on using natural language when speaking. The user merely conducts a normal conversation. The software communication exchange leaves you with an interaction that has a human feel to it. Apple is quite serious about the way in which one interacts with its products. Siri software prioritizes the concept of HCI, and as a result, often gets the better of others HCI in its class (Mac Daily News, 2013). However, like every product, Siri is not an error-free package, and features some initial flaws. The most exasperating aspect of Siri is that it cannot always figure out what the user is verbalizing. Because this product, created with Americans in mind, we general do not experience any issues; however, residents of Scotland for example experience less than desirable results due to their accent (Effron, 2011). This problem is less pronounce due improvement established in the latest iOS installations updates.
The revolutionary aspect of Siri is to utilize APIs (Application Programming Interface) of other services to access and gather data and information. Initially, Siri could only locate local businesses and the like in the United States of America (Balques, 2011). Siri relies on data access from various sources including the internet and other online services like Yahoo!, and Bing, to answer user queries. While their databases are extensive, these partner services may not be able to handle nuanced or uncommon questions.
Many people also have issues with Siri because the software is not operational without internet connections (Balques, 2011). However, on the contrary if you looked at your device signal strength, you make have all five bars present. Sometimes there are glitches in the software as well. For example, if you ask Siri a question that sounds similar to something else, you may get a response entirely different from what you were expecting. It would be nice to see and improvement in the software that incorporates an offline feature. This concept would utilize past software updates to run the program offline in limited or loss of the internet. I would pay extra for this feature because this will increases overall connectivity.
In addition, Apple iPhones operating on IOS 7 has security loopholes, allowing unauthorized access. These breaches require authorization from the authorized user. Locking the phone does not provide protection. Predatory hackers are still able to capitalize on these security loopholes without deliberately revealing in their accessibility and or hiding agendas (Cenzic, 2013).
If you require technical support for Siri, it may be difficult to get any human interaction. Far too often, I am