Human Abilities 2
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Human Abilities 2
How do people think?
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Agenda
• Memory • Cognitive Processes– Implications
• Recap
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Overview
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I. Senses A. Vision B. Hearing C. Touch D. Smell?
III. Motor systemII. Information processing A. Perceptual B. Cognitive 1. Memory a. Short term b. Medium term c. Long term 2. Processes a. Selective attention b. Learning c. Problem solving d. Language C. Motor system
TODAY
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II. Information Processing• Three major systems of
human information processing:
– Perceptual (read-scan)-->memory– Cognitive (think)– Motor system (respond)
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Perception Info. Proc. Respond
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Memory• Four “types”– Perceptual “buffers” (e.g., chess)
– Short-term memory Conscious thought, calculations
– Intermediate Storing intermediate results, future plans
– Long-term Permanent, remember everything that ever happened to us
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Perceptual Store
• Visual and auditory impressions– visuospatial sketchpad, phonological loop
• Very brief, but veridical representation of what was perceived– Details decay quickly (~.5 sec)– Rehearsal prevents decay– Another task prevents rehearsal
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Short-term memory
• Use “chunks”: 4-5 units (not 7±2 !)• Display format should match memory
subsystem used to perform task• New info can interfere with old info
• Exercises– My name is …, I like …– Numbers
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Memorize these phone numbers
404-894-2000
404-385-75109
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Long-term Memory• Seemingly permanent & unlimited– Access is harder, slower (Activity helps)
• Episodic memory– Events & experiences in serial form
• Helps us recall what occurred
• Semantic memory– Structured record of facts, concepts & skills
• One theory says it’s like a network• Another uses frames & scripts
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Memory Characteristics• Things move from STM to LTM by rehearsal
& practice and by use in context
• We “forget” things due to decay and interference
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Unclear if we everreally forget something Lack of use
Similar gets inway of old
Exercises
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Cognitive Processing• Cognitive models – Plenty of them– How well do they work?
• Four main processes of cognitive system:– Selective Attention– Learning– Problem Solving– Language
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Selective Attention• We can focus on one particular thing– Cocktail party chit-chat
• Salient visual/auditory cues facilitate s.a.– Examples?
• Boldface, blinking and beeping
• Visual or Auditory Streams form after a few seconds
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Learning
• Procedural Learning– How to do something
• Declarative Learning– Facts about something
• Involves– Memorization– Understanding concepts & rules– Acquiring motor skills– Automatization
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Learning
• Facilitated– By analogy– By structure & organization– If presented in incremental units– Repetition
• Use user’s previous knowledge in interface
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Observations
• Users focus on getting job done, not learning to effectively use system
• Users apply analogy even when it doesn’t apply
(Beware the unintended metaphor)
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Problem Solving
• Storage in LTM, then application of knowledge• Reasoning– Deductive - If A, then B
– Inductive - Generalizing from previous cases to learn about new ones
– Abductive - Reasoning from a fact back to the action or state that caused it
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Observations• People are more heuristic than algorithmic– They try a few quick shots rather than plan• Resources simply not available
• People often choose suboptimal strategies for low priority problems
• People learn better strategies with practice
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Implications
• Allow flexible shortcuts– Forcing plans will bore user
• Have active rather than passive help– Recognize waste
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Language• Rule-based– How do you make plurals?
• Productive– We make up sentences
• Key-word and positional– Patterns
• Should systems have natural language interfaces?
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People• Good– Infinite capacity LTM– LTM duration & complexity– High-learning capability– Powerful attention
mechanism– Powerful pattern
recognition
• Bad– Limited capacity STM– Limited duration STM– Unreliable access to LTM– Error-prone processing– Slow processing
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Computer Capabilities
• Important for HCI too– Participate in informed brainstorming– Need to be able to call “B.S.” to builders
• Intentional omission (time & scope)– (Take a CS course )
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Recap
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I. Senses A. Vision B. Hearing C. Touch D. Smell?
III. Motor systemII. Information processing A. Perceptual B. Cognitive 1. Memory a. Short term b. Medium term c. Long term 2. Processes a. Selective attention b. Learning c. Problem solving d. Language C. Motor system
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Usability Concept of the Day• Continuous vs. Discrete data -- match display to content type
– Does data “flow” or is it displayed in “chunks”? (the interface needs to reflect the appropriate interaction style)
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Upcoming
• Task Analysis• Requirements Definition • Evaluation without users– Predictive evaluation• Heuristic evaluation…
– Interpretive evaluation• Ethnography…
• User modeling
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