Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
In order to test this idea we joined with Brian Gibbs in devising a letter- naming task (figure 16.6). Two letters were briefly ...
Figure 16.7 Hypothetical model of the early stages in visual perception emerges from the author’s experiments. The model propose ...
available to the subsequent stages of visual processing. Instead the presence of each feature may be signaled without a specific ...
partix Human-Computer Interaction ...
Chapter 17 The Psychopathology of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman Kenneth Olsen, the engineer who founded and still runs Digita ...
have trouble with doors and switches, water faucets and stoves.‘‘Doors?’’ I can hear the reader saying, ‘‘you have trouble openi ...
around and pushed against the side of a door. Nothing. He pushed the adjacent door. Nothing. The door he had just entered no lon ...
Figure 17.2 A Row of Swinging Glass Doors in a Boston Hotel. A similar problem to the doors from that Euro- pean post office. On ...
functions with only one button! But how was a first-time user of the projector to know this? As another example, consider the be ...
Devices in the home have developed some related problems: functions and more functions, controls and more controls. I do not thi ...
ered to the correct height, or if the refrigerator temperature is adjusted cor- rectly. It is lack of visibility that makes so m ...
Figure 17.5 Affordances of Doors. Door hardware can signal whether to push or pull without signs. The flat horizontal bar ofA(ab ...
you caused the failure, even though the failure and your action were related only by coincidence. Such false causality is the ba ...
things. And part comes from the ability of the designer to make the operation clear, to project a good image of the operation, a ...
Principles of Design for Understandability and Usability We have now encountered the fundamental principles of designing for peo ...
the freezer warmer, keeping the fresh food constant. Go on, read the instructions, figure them out. Oh, perhaps I’d better warn ...
Figure 17.9 TwoConceptualModelsforMyRefrigerator.ThemodelA(above)isprovidedbythesystemimage on therefrigeratorasgleanedfromtheco ...
but it is locked. Back to my office to get the key, out to the locked door, fumble with the lock, into the office, and to the no ...
redialing or automatic callback. I am supposed to use this feature whenever I call someone who doesn’t answer or whose line is b ...
todo—ifyoucanrememberwhyyouwanttodoit,andifthepersononthe other end of the line is still around. But, as it happens, using the e ...
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