HCI - Lecture 2
HCI - Lecture 2
HCI - Lecture 2
Summer 2022
Dr. Hasan Mahmud | hasan@iut-dhaka.edu
The Human
• Human Cognition and Information Processing
• Information i/o …
– Visual, Auditory, Touch, Taste, Smell
• Information stored in memory
– Sensory, Short-term, Long-term
• Information processed and applied
– Reasoning, problem solving, skill, error
• Emotion influences human capabilities
• Each person is different
• If 20 clicks per second are played for 5 seconds, about how many clicks
could a person hear?
• If 30 clicks per second are played for 5 seconds, about how many clicks
could a person hear?
Visual angle is affected by both the size of the object and the distance from the eye
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Relationship between Visual Angle, Object
Size, Focal Length.
𝑂𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑆𝑖𝑧𝑒
𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 = 2. tan−1 2
𝑂𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ2 + 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ2
𝑃𝑖𝑥𝑒𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 =
𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛_𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 (𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙)
• Colour
– Made up of hue, intensity, saturation
– Cones sensitive to colour wavelengths
– Blue acuity is lowest
– 8% males and 1% females colour blind
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Perceiving color
• Color is emotional
– Psychological and cultural
– Physiological: some colors excite neurons in the
brain more than others (red)
• Color is good for segmentation (grouping)
– Reduce the amount of time to search for
information
– Too many colors can increase search time
• Color is good for drawing attention
• Some areas more sensitive than others e.g. fingers. (Two point threshold
test)
• Kinesthesis - awareness of body position
– affects comfort and performance.
Sensory memories
Long-term memory
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List A: Faith Age Cold Tenet Quiet Logic Idea Value Past Large
List B: Boat Tree Cat Child Rug Plate Church Gun Flame Head
Interference
– new information replaces old: retroactive interference
– old may interfere with new: proactive inhibition
Recognition
– Information gives knowledge that it has been seen before
– Less complex than recall - information is cue
• Unreliable:
– can only prove false not true
… but useful!
• Humans not good at using negative evidence
e.g. Wason's cards.
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If a card has a vowel on one side it has an even number on the other
Is this true?
• Unreliable:
– Can lead to false explanations
• Mistakes
– Wrong intention
– Cause: incorrect understanding
Humans create mental models to explain behaviour.
If wrong (different from actual system) errors can occur
Ask yourself:
Will design decision exclude section of user population?