22/09/2018
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“Would you like to print out your blessing?” Bless U-2 offers automatic blessings in different languages (even in Hessisch which is a German accent) to the faithful and yes, it even beams lights from its hands! The robot is an … Continue reading
09/05/2018
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I think we now go really deep into the uncanny valley. I think it is of psychological and also sociological relevance that we know if we speak to another human or a machine.The point is, it may be perceived as … Continue reading
15/04/2018
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“Brains (…) are essentially prediction machines” (Clark, 2013) I like that quote very much.
29/03/2018
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“The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.” ― Herbert Simon Related: There is no … Continue reading
18/03/2018
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? #usability #Quiz: in which floor is #terminal 1? pic.twitter.com/JeJ3FWw0mi — Ravid V. Aloni (@AloniRavid) March 15, 2018 Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI
15/01/2018
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The #Hawaii alert system was activated by a dropdown with “test missile alert” and “missile alert” next to each other. Confusing labeling aside, this is an example of @MrAlanCooper’s UI axiom (paraphrased) “Don’t put the ejection seat button near less … Continue reading
03/12/2017
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Imagine you ask your digital assistant or some conversational interface of your choice where you can get a “Berliner” now. What will happen? How could a conversational interface distuingish between terms with multiple semantic meanings, semantically ambiguous terms or how … Continue reading
06/11/2017
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“We see the forest before the trees” – Navon, D. (1977) How do we perceive objects? Classic theories of object recognition (so-called feature theories) often claim that we first process specific features/details of something followed by a more general processing. … Continue reading
04/11/2017
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Despite the fact that we know that people normally don’t change their sizes so fast this knowledge – which is normally used to estimate our size and distance perception – is simply overwritten by the cues suggesting the wall is … Continue reading
31/10/2017
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Both, top-down and bottom-up processing are the two famous approaches on how we interpret information in cognitive psychology and as humans, we do both. Please read the sentence below: Now read again. Have you skipped over the extra “the” or … Continue reading
08/10/2017
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04/10/2017
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„We try to reduce the dissonance between how we think we should act and how we actually act by changing one or the other“ This is interesting because it is contrary to incentive / economic theories which claim that the … Continue reading
05/09/2017
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“Like chess, a social interaction is typically a transaction between social partners. One animal may, for instance, wish by his own behaviour to change the behaviour of another; but since the second animal is himself reactive and intelligent the interaction … Continue reading
25/08/2017
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„We wake up in the morning and we open the closet; we feel that we decide what to wear. we open the refrigerator and we feel that we decide what to eat. What this is actually saying, is that many … Continue reading
03/07/2017
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After Philip Zimbardo’s introduction to the topic the video above shows one of the classic experiments in social psychology. Solomon Asch conducted those series of experiments in 1951 to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group … Continue reading
10/06/2017
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Love this. Found this cartoon. pic.twitter.com/N5PIeBdLZG — passwordistoostrong (@PWTooStrong) 10. Juni 2017 See also this study and this one
05/06/2017
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This visual vocabulary titled “chart doctor” is a very useful and great starting point for making informative and meaningful data visualizations. It is used by the Financial Times team to decide which visualization to use. via @simongerman600
07/04/2017
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Confirmation bias describes the tendency that we as humans seek out, favor and pay more attention to those information that confirms our pre-made assumptions and beliefs and we selectively ignore information that disconfirms our beliefs. When people would like something … Continue reading
04/04/2017
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Demand characteristics are one of the so called experimenter effects in behavioral research. They describe the tendency of interview /usability test participants to give you (as the experimenter) what you want based on what the participants think what you might … Continue reading
16/03/2017
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Avoid asking users to memorize stuff. People will have a much easier time recognizing an option if they see it rather than recalling it from memory. Speaking of the autocomplete example above: of course we have to start with a … Continue reading