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.
07/03/2018
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Ever yelled at your computer? Congrats! You’re in good company applying social responses to inanimate things. We as humans are wired to be social creatures. And even digital products may trigger social responses and you might not even be aware … Continue reading
16/12/2017
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„Recognition is Easy. Recall is Hard.“ Jeff Johnson, Designing with the Mind in Mind (2014)
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
31/10/2017
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Nothing scares me more… pic.twitter.com/tkzE47xLD2 — Dr. John Mohl (@JohnCMohl) October 29, 2017
29/10/2017
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“Cognitive models can serve as a substitute for (quantitative) user tests. User models built with ACT-R can simulate the interaction with a certain task. Cognitive modeling has two advantages over real user tests; first of all no human participants are … Continue reading
29/10/2017
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Stumbled upon this goodie while researching on cognitive architectures for a course. „(…) a machine isn’t the sum of its parts, if somebody took a car apart and gave you a heap of the parts that wouldn’t be a car … 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
12/09/2017
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Amongst other things when it comes to gender stereotyping, studies show that dominant behavior by males tends to be positively received by western society since dominant men tend to be perceived as “independent”,”assertive” and “successful”, whereas dominant women tend to … 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
14/07/2017
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Interesting Radio Interview (in German) about meetings with organizational psychologist Felix Brodbeck (LMU Munich) in which he is talking about decision making and problem-solving in groups and also: group-dynamics and “deutsche Nörgelkultur”. :) https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/swr2-forum/verschwenden-wir-mit-konferenzen-unsere-zeit/-/id=660214/did=13846846/nid=660214/ua8uzn/index.html
05/07/2017
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“Can a broken robot break a child?” Awesome Sherry Turkle about conversation in the digital age and how replacing face-to-face communication with smartphones (or even growing up in company with digital assistants, smart toys, and bots and connect emotionally with … 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
16/03/2017
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Question: Which goes with the cow together? Or: Which two items go together? Please answer spontaneously for yourself (your first thought) I recently stumpled upon this again and I think it’s a quite interesting test and food for thought. What … Continue reading
14/03/2017
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A lot of eyetracking studies showed – most of them were performed by Jacob Nielsen – that people tend to follow an F-shaped reading pattern when looking at different types of web pages: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical … Continue reading
14/03/2017
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a) Saccades (sequential eye fixations or: “scanpaths”) of humans when reading a western language. This is how we read text information because we learned how text is supposed to flow. b) Saccades when browsing a web site (gazeplot recording) It’s … Continue reading
10/03/2017
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This is just great! Daniel Kunin, a student of Brown university has created a visual introduction to statistics! As we learned in our university stats course understanding (basic) statistics and especially the term “statistical significance” is becoming more and more … Continue reading