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Lecture 12 – Cognition
Mark Woehrer CS 3053 - Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Department Oklahoma University Spring 2007 [Taken from Stanford CS147 with permission]
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Lecture 12 Cognition Mark Woehrer CS 3053 - Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Department Oklahoma University Spring 2007 [Taken from Stanford CS147 with permission] CS 3053 - Mark Woehrer Learning Goals Be familiar with the
CS 3053 - Mark Woehrer
Lecture 12 – Cognition
Mark Woehrer CS 3053 - Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Department Oklahoma University Spring 2007 [Taken from Stanford CS147 with permission]
CS 3053 - Mark Woehrer
Learning Goals
basic theories of cognition and their relevance to interaction design
memory, attention, and motor activity that have direct design implications
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Cognition is a Complex Interaction
External environment Sensory organs Internal environment Motor organs Long-term memory Working memory Adapted from Waern, pp. 11 and 14 Arousal Emotion Skills Sensory memory Cognitive Processing
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Goals for a Theory of Cognition
– What perceptual and mental phenomena are potentially relevant?
– How can those phenomena be quantified in a way that makes it possible to discover general patterns, principles, or laws?
– What formal and/or computational models can predict cognitive behavior based on those regularities?
– How can designers make use of the models and principles to produce more efgective interactions?
– How can principles and designs be systematically tested, controlling dimensions of unwanted variance and measuring the intended efgects?
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Approaches to Cognition
– The mind as computer
– Perception is shaped by prediction and action
– Interaction between system and environment
– Phenomena as experienced
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Human Information Processing
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Limited Processing Resources
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Memory components
< 1 second
10-15 seconds
Years
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Sensory memory
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Sensory memory
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Sensory memory
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Sensory memory
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Sensory memory
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Short term (working) memory
– Miller’s Magic Number 7 ± 2 – Chunking
– Primacy – Recency
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Long term memory
– Recognition vs. recall
happened
– Distortion and Meaning
behavior - Automaticity
– Not just motor
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Perceptual - Vision
– The fovea is less than 1% of the retina but takes up over 50% of the visual cortex in the brain.
– Saccades last from about 20 to 200 milliseconds
Eye Gaze – saccades
Here is a picture and eye movements from subjects looking at it.
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Visual Search and Pre-attentive Processing
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Attention
– Conscious attention – The flashlight metaphor – Cocktail party efgect
– Stroop efgect
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Stroop Effect
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Motor Performance (Fitt’s Law)
S D
T = a + b log2(2D/S)
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Constructivism
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Ambiguous Figures
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Motion Perception
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Motion Perception
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Motion Perception
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Motion Perception
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Ecological Psychology
environment
discussion) "It's not what is inside the head that is important, it's what the head is inside of"
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Phenomenology
– The blind person’s cane – The mouse and the cursor
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/
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Flow - Csikszentmihalyi
Difficulty Skill
Boredom Stress Flow Apathy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi