• 11 Aug 2025
• ⌘
• 3 min read

Table Contents

The team behind Human-Cat Interaction either was underfunded or weren’t professional.

It looks like those little felines’ affordances should be quite good, but in reality, they are a mess of unlabelled buttons that sometimes change their position, and some will never work. When the cat lies on the floor, you might think it invites you to touch its belly, but it really doesn’t want to be touched in that part, or even touched at all.

You will usually need to ask if they are willing to interact, imagine if you need to ask your computer or phone if I can use you first.

It will turn its back towards you; you might think it wants to be used, but in fact, it is telling you that it trusts you. Imagine a device that turns upside down, and you need to use it upside down without seeing its UI elements or having any kind of visible feedback.

There are false interactions were your inputs will have different outputs according by a algorithm that have random inside.

Imagine a device that only wants to turn on when it feels its the right time, that HCI. you are going towards it but it turn around and that let you even touch the on button, sometimes when you are busy it will go to you and it will automatically turn on for you want you need it.

A friend told me that the facial expressions are in the tail. Why on earth should God want to put their feedback on the back - a place hard to see? It quite resembles those outdated ATM machines that when you use their touchscreen is neither a visual nor auditory feedback, and because they are so laggy, users get stressed whether their two grands are coming out or lost in the limbo. It seems the felines are more likely designed by Satan and not by Zeus, if not look at those curved knives.