Category: Visual perception

Films about Designing for People

Films about Designing for People

This collection of movies provide an entertaining, and a potentially useful, complement to the textbook “Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering“. The films show examples of human factors design concepts in...

Interactive Signal Detection Theory explainer

Signal Detection Theory has broad applicability and is a central concept in understanding human performance and the inevitability of “human error”.  Its central concepts also apply to understanding the performance of machine learning algorithms...

Eye and brain work together to see

Eye and brain work together to see

Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses https://t.co/2Q96su44Ci via @UpshotNYT More work than using reading glasses? — John Lee (@Jdlee888) April 6, 2017

Norman doors and affordances

Norman doors and affordances

Norman doors even more puzzling when you can’t speak the language. Push or Pull? Creating interactions with clear affordances helps avoid relying on language to explain what the person should do.