Mattias SkarinKanban / Lean coach

www.crisp.se

Visualization – what’s my brain got to do with it?

Agile Eastern Europe, 2013

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I Dare you – Do you trust your brain?

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Can you spot the trick?

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Let’s try something more obvious

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Simons and Levin - 1998

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How we process visual information

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Visual CortexVentral streamDorsal streamLimbic system (old)

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Bandwidth

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Eye

Mental model

ProcessFilter/Routing

20 frames/s10 million bit/s

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Test nr #2

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The flicker paradigm

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80 ms

240 ms

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Let’s try it again..

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Can you spot the difference –Let’s try at a slower pace..

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wikipedia/spot_the_difference

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upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Globe_and_high_court_%28Spot_the_difference%29.jpg

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What did you spot?

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Let’s try something else

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Red Blue White

Yellow Blue Green Black

Blue Orange Red Purple

Brown Yellow Green

Are you ready?Read out the true color of each word

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How well did you do?

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Red Blue White

Yellow Blue Green Black

Blue Orange Red Purple

Brown Yellow Green

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Stress effect on visual recognition

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Henric VI

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30-49 years 50- years

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Continuous Visual Memory Test (CVMT)

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Three things makes us miss changes in our surrounding

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Change blindness – we only notice what we think is important

Flicker paradigm – lack sufficient storage space to remember both space and time on a detailed level

Stress - filter out

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Can you spot the animal?

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http://blog.quickmeme.com/post/1084161829/the-true-masters-of-disguise

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Let’s try again

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http://blog.quickmeme.com/post/1084161829/the-true-masters-of-disguise

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How’s your reading?

“Our bran pikcs and chooses accodring to what it thikns is imoprtant. If you chngesomething it doesn’t thikn is importnt - it littreately doesn’t see it”

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Bottom line

Visualization ≠ Reaction

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What does this imply?

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Visual representation

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Five lenses on visual work

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New In Dev User Test Deploy Done

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In progr. Done In progr. Done In prog Done

”My Work””Our work”

”How system works”

”Value or failure demand””Are we delivering

value downstream?”

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Elements of good visualization

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• Use images• Make it interactive• Make it Persistent

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VISUALIZATION CHANGING OUR WORLD

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Crowdflow

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US national debt clock

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Visualizing design progress

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And sub componenent progress..

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http://vitaminsdesign.com/projects/lego-calendar/

#legocalendar

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ROUNDING UP

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.. can you trust your brain?

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Thank you

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Concepts? What the heck are Concepts?

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References

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On eye processing capacity:Current Biology (July 2006) by Judith McLean and Michael A. Freed, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Ronen Segev and Michael J. Berry III, Princeton

”När hjärnans sambandscentral slutar fungera”, Johanna Roth, Umeå Universitet 2005http://www.quranten.com/images/user/Dokument/hjarnans_sambandscentral.pdf

”Discontinuity in the enumeration of sequentially presented auditory and visual stimuli”Valérie Camosa, Barbara TillmannbCognition, Volume 107, Issue 3, June 2008, Pages 1135–1143

N. Cowanm 2001”The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity”Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24 (2001), pp. 87–185

Ted Talk 3 ways the brain creates meaninghttp://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_on_3_ways_the_brain_creates_meaning.html

Hendersen Visual Congition Lab