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 06 August 2003




The last week or so, I've been visiting my parents in Edinburgh and providing a bit of basic Windows tuition. My mum is completely unsavvy when it comes to computers. She's only just getting over that initial fear of bringing it all down with a single click (she still has a bit to go, if the audible horror whenever an accidental click brings a new window to the top is anything to go by).

Near the end of the day, my mum asked how to switch the computer off (it's an old, second hand laptop with no funky power features). I'd already covered this about five times already, with my mum initially expressing the familiar surprise that a button called "Start" leads to a menu that turns the computer off. So I decided to try a different tact. "Why don't you see if you can figure it out?"... Why We Watch Users describes what happened...


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