COGNITION
Understanding the human mind is fun; aside from gaining insights on how my mind works and perhaps manipulating others a bit, cognition and psychology are extremely helpful when trying to understand users and expecting their needs.
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Human vs AI Insights
Based on Goldstein’s (2019) definition, human insights are characterized as sudden, involving the reorganization of mental models, and creating original solutions. These can be represented by multiple examples of “Aha moments”…
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Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Processing
Both bottom-up and top-down processing play a crucial role in helping humans comprehend the environment and make decisions. Which plays a more important role has also been a long debate amongst psychologists…
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A plethora vs limited amount of information
Whether to include a plethora of information or limit the amount of information available at once depends on memory usage and generating imagery. The best practice is to use a large screen and include as much information as possible…
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Mental Workload Capacity in Railway Engineers
Because a human's mental workload is limited, the amount of mental workload a job exhibits on the operator can directly influence the performance. Along with the nature of non-stop, time-sensitivity of the railway system, and safety priorities…
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Conditional Decisions Model
Humans use many deductive reasoning methods to conclude what they believe is correct or logical. However, not all types of syllogisms are created equal. Some can cause common occurrences of biases and fallacies without humans realizing…