Work Interface

I read an article in the Herald the other day entitled “Here come the digital natives.” The article discussed how many young employees are video gamers, meaning they bring “different expectations about how to learn, work and pursue careers” into a workplace environment. The article refereed to an essay (http://pewresearch.org) by Lee Rainie – This website contains many interesting reports as part of the “Pew Internet and Modern Life Project” with many of the topics relating either directly or indirectly to topics covered in this course. This herald article suggested that “Jobs may have to be redesigned to harness the ingenuity kids pour into video games.” I think this is an interesting example of interface whereby people's relationships with one technology could be re-articulated within another environment through a re-arrangement of the interfaces used in everyday working life in order to mimic the way young people interact with video games.