Topic – Attention and Memory
Objectives
- Understand the implications of attention for design
- Focus and divided attention
- Automating processing
- Chunking
- Limitations of human memory
Summary
Covers techniques to improve memory and recall capability in dealing with UI design. Spatial cues, temporal cues, use of messaging, status information are covered. Information about automated processes and how these can be used in interface design is covered along with memory storage models. Examples of chunking are given.
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Reference Materials
Architecting Usability – http://architectingusability.com/2012/06/12/what-user-interface-designers-need-to-know-about-how-human-memory-works/ – this article covers the main topics in this lecture about how memory works and how we can harness this and use it to make better interfaces. This is great resource for understanding and use of memory models.
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