Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
As I pondered this problem, I decided it would make sense to compare the phone system with something that was of equal or greate ...
the actions the user must perform and the results to be accomplished. The con- trols have multiple functions. There isn’t good f ...
more or less in the comparison of different pitches, or hues, or taste qualities. Other natural mappings follow from the princip ...
A device is easy to use when there is visibility to the set of possible actions, where the controls and displays exploit natural ...
The Principle of Feedback Feedback—sending back to the user information about what action has actu- ally been done, what result ...
Why are the modern telephone systems so difficult to learn and to use? Basi- cally, the problem is that the systems have more fe ...
Then why is it that so many good design ideas don’t find their way into products in the marketplace? Or something good shows up ...
higherqualitysound,better reception,andenhancedcapability.But what good is the technology if it is too complex to use? The desig ...
The company is trying to decide whether to include a small (two-inch screen) TV set and a switched electric outlet that can turn ...
atedwith minimumconfusion or error.Clock radios are often used in the dark, with the user in bed and reaching overhead to grope ...
Chapter 18 Distributed Cognition Donald A. Norman Modern commercial airplanes fly with two or three people in the cockpit. One, ...
necessary for the control wheel to actually turn the rudder or operate the air- plane’s wing surfaces. The large lever that cont ...
stead, the two pilots each have small joysticks, not unlike the ones used for computer games. The captain has a small joystick o ...
The need for communication and synchronization of actions among members of a team is a very subtle phenomenon. The large mechani ...
markably little about how this process takes place, about what factors make shared work a pleasant, effective interaction and wh ...
Disembodied Intelligence The sciences of cognition have tended to examine a disembodied intelligence, a pure intelligence isolat ...
Of course, it is important to plan ahead, but postponing decisions until the point of action can simplify the thought processes: ...
727 simulator around the streets of San Francisco, a commercial airline pilot at the controls, flying around the Transamerica bu ...
objects and people and the environment would have to be simulated, which means continual checks to ensure that two objects don’t ...
need stories and context. Who cares whether the details vary? Who cares whether there is word-for-word accuracy? That is simply ...
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