Context Area: Theories of Interface Design and Cognition

Examiner:

Chris Schmandt

Principal Research Scientist

Media Arts and Sciences Program

Signature:

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Chris Schmandt, Principal Research Scientist

Description: This context area will cover principles of interface design and cognitive science. The readings will include human-computer interaction, cognition in interface design, and focus of attention / divided attention issues.

Written Requirement: The written requirement for this area will consist of a take-home exam of approximately three questions whose answers will require a good grasp of cognition and interface design, to be evaluated by Chris Schmandt.

Note: readings in green are readings not in the official, signed proposal, but which I discovered later and think would be of interest to others.

Interface Design Theory

• Buxton, W. Integrating the periphery and context: a new model of telematics, in Proceedings of Graphics Interface '95, 239-246
• Expressive Richness: a comparison of speech and text as media for revision, B Chalfonte, R Fish, R. Kraut, CHI 91, pp. 21-26
• Interactive Human Communication: A Chapanis (SciAm, 232, 1975, p. 36-42)
• Tomas Erickson, Design and Long-term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook: A reflective analysis, Human Factors in Computing, CHI 96
• Fitzmaurice, G., "Situated Infomation Spaces and Spatially Aware Palmtop Computers," CACM, July 1993, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 38-49
• David Kirsh, "Complementary Strategies: Why We Use Our Hands When We Think", http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kirsh/Cogsci95/cogsci95.html
• Koons, D., Sparrell, C. & Thorisson, K. Integrating simultaneous input from speech, gaze, and hand gestures, Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces, ed. by M. Maybury, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 1993, 257-76.
• Lynn Wilcox, Bill Schilt, Nitin Sawhney, "Dynomite: A Dynamically Organized Ink and Audio Notebook", Proceedings of CHI'97, ACM, Atlanta, GA, March 1997

• Norman, DA "Things That Make Us Smart," Addison Wesley, 1993
• Norman, DA, "Psychology of Everyday Things," Basic Books, 1988
• The Art of Human Computer Interface Design, ed Brenda Laurel, Addison-Wesley, 1990
• Wickens, CD, Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, Scott Foesman Little Brown, 1992. (emphasis on Chapter 3, Attention in perception and display space)
• Schmandt, C, Voice Communication with Computers, 1994

Cognition

• Allport, Alan, "Visual Attention" in Foundations of Cognitive Science, Michael Posner editor, MIT Press, 1989.
• Barr RA, "How do we focus our attention?", Am J Psychol 1981 DEC 94(4):591-603 PMID: 7342783, UI:82203896
• Braun J, et al; Vision outside the focus of attention Percept Psychophys, 1990 Jul 1;48(1);45-58 PMID:2377439,UI:90332375
• Craik FI, Govoni R, Naveh-Benjamin M, Anderson ND, "The effects of divided attention on encoding and retrieval processes in human memory.", J Exp Psychol Gen 1996 Jun;125(2):159-180,
• Duncan, J, "Divided attention: the whole is more than the sum of its parts", J Exp Psychol[Hum Percept] 1979 May;5(2):216-228
• Fuhrer U, "Are we any closer to understanding divided attention?", Percept Mot Skills 1985 Aug;61(1);236-238
• Lavie N, Tsal Y, "Perceptual load as a major determinant of the locus of selection in visual attention." (review) Percept Psychophys 1994 Aug;54(2):183-197 PMID: 7971119, UI:95061239
• Mulligan NW, Hartman M, "Divided attention and indirect memory tests.", Mem Cognit 1996 Jul;24(4):453-465
• Neisser U, Becklen R, "Selective looking: Attending to visually specified events." Cog. Psychol. 1975; 7, 4, 480-494
• Wickens CD, "The effects of divided attention on information processing in manual tracking.", J Exp Psychol[Hum Percept] 1976 Feb 2(1):1-13
• Wilson-Pauwels L. "Bringing it into focus: visual cues and their role in directing attention." J Biocommun. 1997; 24(3):12-16. Review. PMID:9399136;UI:98061504
• Wood NL, Cowan N, "The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: attention and memory in the classic selective listening procedure of Cherry (1953).", J Exp Psychol Gen 1995 Sep;124(3):243-262, (Humanities, BF.J8453)
• Singer RN, et al, "Focus of attention during motor skill performance.", J Sports Sci. 1994 Aug 1;12(4):335-340 PMID:7932943;UI:95018467

• de Bono, E. "Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas", HarperBusiness, 1992.
• Csikszentmihalyi, M. "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention", HarperCollins, 1997.
• Lakoff, G. Metaphors We Live By, University of Chicago Press, 1980.