Cognitive artifacts¶
Norman, D. A. (1991). Cognitive artifacts. Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface.
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Primes¶
- Representational Modality
- Not because they're wrong, but because the modality chosen (visual) is low-salience during the target activity (driving while fatigued) or inaccessible to the target audience (colorblind user, deaf user, user in gloved environment), a class of mismatches Norman (1991) analyzes in his account of how cognitive artifacts reshape rather than amplify the tasks their users perform.
This sourceDevelops the systems vs. personal view of artifacts: modality choice changes the task the user actually performs, accounting for why warnings, displays, and tools succeed or fail by mismatching context, ability, or task.
- Not because they're wrong, but because the modality chosen (visual) is low-salience during the target activity (driving while fatigued) or inaccessible to the target audience (colorblind user, deaf user, user in gloved environment), a class of mismatches Norman (1991) analyzes in his account of how cognitive artifacts reshape rather than amplify the tasks their users perform.
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