[CrashCourse CS] #38 Psychology of Computing

When good system designers are creating software, they employ social, cognitive, behavioral, and perceptual psychology principles.

Usability

The degree to which a human-made artifact can be used to achieve an objective effectively and efficiently.

• Understanding human cognition helps us design interfaces that align with how mind works
  • Using colors: good at categorizing, bad at displaying continuous data.
• Humans can read, remember and process information more effectively when it's chunked.
  • telephone numbers divided into 3 chunks
  • drop down menu, menu bars

Affordance - 행동 유도성

Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. When affordances are taken advatage of, the user knows what to do just by looking.

• GUI
• knuring - texture added to objects to improve grip and show you where to best grab them

Recognition(multiple choice) vs recall(fill-in-the-black)

• Human memory is much better when it's triggered by a sensory cue, like a word, picture, or sound.

Affect - responding to users' emotional state.

CMC - Computer Mediated Communication

• Augmented gaze

HRI - Human-Robot Interaction

Uncanny Valley

[로봇공학] 불쾌한 골짜기 이론 : 휴머노이드 로봇의 '인간과의 유사도( 횡축)' 와 ' 사람들이 느끼는 호감도/친밀도(종축)' 를 비교해 그래프를 그릴 때 , 약 70%대 구간에서 호감도가 급락하다가 100%에 가까와질 때 다시 급상승하는 '불쾌한 uncanny [ 설명하기 어렵게 기이한] ' 골짜기(valley) 모양의 궤적이 그려진다는 로봇공학자 모리 마사히로의 이론. 어설프게 인간과 흡사한 휴머노이드에 느끼는 사람들의 불쾌감을 반영함.

Vocabulary

• quintessential - 본질적인
• error-prone -
• ineptitude - 기량 부족
• cue - 신호
• cater - 음식을 공급하다.
• chassis - framework that a vehicle is built on
• synthetic - 인조의
• uncanny - 이상한, 묘한
• elicit - 반응을 끌어내다.
• dip - 하락
• potent - 강한
• curate - If an exhibition is curated by someone, they organize it.