Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Archive for the 'Cognitive Psychology' Category

Continuous partial attention

“continuous partial attention n. A state in which most of one’s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA.” Continuous partial attention is one of the side effects of mobile networked computing; it’s parasitic on our desires [...]

30 May 2008 at 04:39 - Comments

Eye movement simulator

The image below displays a simulation of human eye movement in the form of heat maps.

The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look at. Read their explanation on [...]

15 May 2008 at 04:03 - Comments
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15 May 08 at 04:40
I wonder whether any organizations have made any decisions based upon the results relayed through Feng-GUI. Without this information, it's hard ...
26 October 08 at 03:41

Cognitive Psychology : Basics

Cognitive Psychology is study of attention, memory, language, perception and thinking in humans is the systematic study of human mind and how it processes information also deals with pattern recognition, imagery, nueroscience, intelligence etc., The human mind has 3 kinds of processors - Sensorial/ Perceptual : Ears & Eyes : These store visual and auditory data. - Motor : Fingers & [...]

14 October 2004 at 06:39 - Comments
I’m an undergradute student of Psychology at Fergusson College, Pune. I’m particularly interested in animal cognition (attention, catagorization, problem solveing, ...
4 July 08 at 20:13
tarun
Hi I am Tarun and am interested to pursue my post graduation in cognitive psychology. I would need info regarding the ...
14 September 08 at 06:57

Attention

Given any situation, there are “n” no of sensory inputs (stimuli), which impacts the human mind. To handle such humongous amount of data, the human brain acts as a pattern-processing machine and starts to group them to reduce the load. It focuses on stimulus, which is important for the User. This is called “Selective Attention” Example: If [...]

11 October 2004 at 05:49 - Comments
This is a cool website thank you.
4 July 08 at 23:25