E-tech 2005 Conference Notes – Usability
- Assumptions
- Light comes from the top / above
- Processing needs to be done fast – so our brain makes assumptions to speed up the process
- Attention
- What to do with too much informatoin is the riddle of our time – Theodore Zeldin
- Subitizing and counting
- Russian Abacus
- We’ve had a gut instinct about interaction design
- Follow the physics of attention
- What the brain "looks at next"
- Affordances
- The possibilites of action
- Perceiving the possibilites of action
The possibilites of use
- Priming
- In my "most meaininful charateristics of how the brain works" top 10
- Know whats easy and hard to sense
- Curiousities
- Habits and memory
- Gestalt psychology
- What an d"objet" is
- Longer time-scale than seconds
- Social psycology
- Animacy
- Tools
- When does a computer stop being a tool and start being something I can have a converation with
- How far will we need to go before we think in terms of "how to best communicate with the computer"
- Natural language
- Command line
