This site is about: (1) my professional self, (2) my research into cognition and (3) musings about the intersection of cognition and design.
Jason H. Wong
Basic cognitive research is a necessary component of successful user-centered design. Only through scientific thinking can we make technology intuitive and productive. My goal is to integrate basic research with useful applications.
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The military, being what it is, is very competitive. There are rivalries between the Army and Marines, for example, because they’re both ground forces. Another big rivalry is between the Navy and the Air Force to determine who has the better toys (nuclear submarines win over fighter jets, of course).
Nonetheless, after seeing a banner ad on the NBC website, I can say that at least the Navy knows how to spell, unlike the Air Force:
The only human factors lesson to be learned is to proofread your work to make a good impression on the one who is reading the advertisement. They are much more effective that way.
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Categories
- animal cognition (1)
- arch lab (2)
- attention (12)
- audition (1)
- automation (2)
- bad design (22)
- clutter (15)
- consciousness (1)
- data visualization (11)
- decision making (4)
- driving (8)
- eye movements (7)
- faces (2)
- good design (18)
- imagery (5)
- interruptions (5)
- language (2)
- marketing (5)
- memory (5)
- mental map (7)
- navigation (3)
- neural network (1)
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- perception (20)
- physical ergonomics (7)
- research (16)
- robots (3)
- social (1)
- teaching (1)
- thoughts (13)
- transfer of training (7)
- user testing (11)
- video games (10)
- visual search (3)
Blogroll
Cognitive Daily
- CogDaily's best posts of the year?
- Seeing shapes in two different ways: how and when it happens
- Plunging in to social networking
- Does involving parents really help students learn? Depends on how they're involved
- Casual Fridays: Does having kids enhance or detract from our own childhood memories?
- Dave and Greta speaking at CLT WordCamp tomorrow
- How, exactly, do sad faces affect our ability to count?
- Should you let your toddler/preschooler watch TV? Part II
- Can a blind person whose vision is restored understand what she sees?
- Links for Shireen Campbell's class