Gallows a broken neck rather than through strangulation, especially if extra weights were fixed to their ankles. During the era of public execution in London, England, a prominent gallows stood at Tyburn, on what is now Marble Arch. Later executions occurred outside Newgate Prison, where the Old Bailey now stands. Gallows A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, from which objects can be hung or “weighed.” Gallows were thus widely used for public weighing scales for large objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. The term was also used for a
Gulf of execution what it means. Both phrases are mentioned in Donald Norman's 1986 book "User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-computer Interaction." This can be illustrated through the discussion of a VCR problem. Let us imagine that a user would like to record a television show. They see the solution to this problem as simply pressing the "Record" button. However, in reality, to record a show on a VCR, several actions must be taken: The difference between the user's perceived execution actions and the required actions is the gulf of execution. Gulf of execution In human computer interaction, the gulf of