This is the last week of EID for the year. On behalf of the team at EID, I want to thank
you for your support. Whether you are the
occasional reader, the active commenter, a frequent sharer, or some combination
thereof. Without you, we would just be yelling into a canyon to hear our voice
echo back at us.
A quick summary of the week.
Monday had a fun story about end user license agreements and some karmic
comeuppance.
Tuesday was a great example that the middle path is almost
always better than the absolutist claims some designers, researchers, or policymakers
try to force upon us. In this case on the balance of sensory mindfulness,
cognitive focus, and mindwandering aimlessness.
Wednesday shared a great cognitive heuristic that can lead to
self-delusion. When we rely on our
smartphones to immediately access whatever information we need at the time, we
significantly overestimate our own expertise and knowledge. We lose track that we didn’t actually know
anything, we looked it up. It was just
so fast that the help didn’t get tagged onto the memory.
Then Thursday we had the annual Goal Setting article,
hopefully to help you make more effective New Year’s Resolutions as well as
setting other kinds of goals throughout the year.
We will ramp back up again on January 4th and I
hope you will join us as we continue this journey into social media discussion
and debate about Human Factors, Ergonomics, and all kinds of related topics,
sciences, and domains.
Have a safe New Year Eve, a wonderful 2016, and see you on
the other side.
