Sink Faucets

You’re visiting a friend and helping to make dinner. First you need to wash your hands. You are an intelligent adult, so this should be easy. But if your friend has decided to dress up her kitchen with a fancy new sink faucet this could be more difficult than you had imagined.

Since we all use sinks every day we have a conceptual model for how we expect a faucet to work. You turn on the water and turn the handle to the desired temperature. Yet these advances in faucet technology don’t always work that way.

Now you can find a faucet that you touch the faucet to turn it on. It might be normal to find a no touch faucet in a public restroom, but you can now find the sensor technology in a private home as well. Just looking at a faucet, with a sleek new design, does not indicate how it is to be used.

Without a visible handle with the hot and cold sign with directional indications, a simple task of washing your hands could seem near impossible.

While these new types of faucets attempt to make life easier, by going against our conceptual model of how a faucet should work, our lives are a little bit more confusing.

Self Check Out

Nowadays many grocery stores allow customers to check themselves out, or to ring up their own purchases. This is a great idea! If you have just a few items you can get yourself through the line much faster and be on your way.

Or it is great in theory and sometimes in practice, but it is not entirely “self” guided.

When these lanes were developed there had to be some features in place to protect the store from theft. Sensors in the bagging section is one. Once you scan your item you are to put it in the bag, and do it fast or you might get yelled at. Oh and don’t try to move things around because that will get you scolded by the machine as well. The system recognizes the weights of the items and if the weight doesn’t match then it is determined that you are trying to steal something from the store. This might be the case but there could be other reasons.

Other issues arise when the scanner doesn’t pick up the code or you can’t find your produce on the list of items from which you can choose. Often times your solution for getting out of the store quick, backfires.

The Psychology of Everyday ThingsApril 5, 2013 Kerry Phillips

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