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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What language would you use?
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In article <JGOODSEN.94Nov10173231@trinidad.radsoft.com>,
John Goodsen <jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com> wrote:
> A similar concept exists in HCI literature.  It's called "cognitive
> disonnance".  You incur a level of "cognitive overload" until the
> quirks become easily handled by your unconscious mind.  At that point,
> cognitive disonnance sets in, and all of the sudden the quirky HCI
> interaction becomes a "standard" way of performing the task.

I think you're misusing the term cognitive dissonance. This term refers
to the effect of a gap between internal and external models of a system.
Once you have internalised the system cognitive dissonance goes away.

God knows where *this* should followup to.
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