Starfire is getting hotter
March 11, 2007 on 1:42 pm | In Psychology | Comments OffWhen you are in the usability scene, starfire, the movie about a next generation desk, is one of the most astonishing examples of video prototyping. Obviously, we still haven’t that kind of computing experience, but the latest demonstration of touch screens in combination with 3D graphics and a semantic net seems very promising.
Herr Suess and his new dayjob
March 6, 2007 on 4:21 pm | In Psychology | Comments Off
On this picture you can see me in the cockpit of a crane at the trash-dump of the city of Zurich. Now I know how tons of trash smell: sweet. It has a sweet, but also very caustic smell. The operator’s job is to mix the various types of trash for optimal results and then lift them into the furnace.
Shannon-Weaver is passé
February 18, 2007 on 10:37 pm | In Psychology | Comments OffThere’s no doubt, the Shannon-Weaver Model is absolutely essential in the theory of communication and media psychology. However, it is rather limited as it knows only one sender and one receiver. While this model is too limited to describe even such “easy” settings like face-to-face communication, its limits become especially evident in these times where the boundaries between content creators and consumers increasingly get blurred. The following video is a perfect example to show in class (via vowe):
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
December 27, 2006 on 8:14 pm | In Psychology | Comments OffJakob Nielsen has updated his Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design and I find them very useful. Nielsen’s work itself can be matter for a debate, but by following his rules of thumb you take your ship around the most dangerous cliffs.
Goodbye TV, Hello Broadband
December 18, 2006 on 7:31 pm | In Psychology | Comments OffWired News features a story particularly interesting for media psychologists about how TV consumption changes in a family that cancels its cable subscriptionand only watches TV shows delivered by the internet.
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