Slides

Weekly lecture material and references https://idia640.github.io/presentations

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Slides Directory

  1. Introduction - What’s this class about? (slide links)

  2. HCI Research Methodologies - Experimentation) - Covers a range of methodologies, but focuses on how to read scientific papers. (slide links)

  3. HCI Research Methodologies - Ethnography and Survey - Introduces two more very useful methodologies you will encounter in reading. (slide links)

  4. How do we know what we see? - Introduction to visual perception. Perception is de-centralized and driven by both bottom-up and top-down proecsses. (slide links)

  5. How do we know about things? - Builds on the previous week and towards how we think in terms of concepts and associate information multimodally. We learn what role background knowledge plays in perception. (slide links)

  6. How do we think? Kahneman discusses the implication of two systems for thinking where one is fast and intuitive, and the other slow and thoughtful. (slide links)

  7. How do emotions affect belief? Emotions and feelings play an important role in the shape of our beliefs and thoughts. (slide links)

  8. How do we understand? Language is form of joint action and is, therefore, social. When we see it from this perspective, we can better account for processes concerned with the prevention, detection and repair of error in dialogue. (slide links)

  9. How do people make decisions when they are uncertain? People believe they have complete control over choices they make. This is surprisingly not the case. (slide links)

  10. How are people influenced through persuasion? To be persuasive is to affect beliefs (in a cooperative fashion) whereby an interlocutor or audience is consciously aware of intent to persuade. How do compliance experts do this? (slide links)

  11. How does culture affect thinking? Do people from different cultures think differently? Perhaps, to small degree – but culture acts more as a lens through which see the world. (slide links)

  12. How do social networks affect behavior? We know that information spreads through social networks and affects beliefs. Attitudes and emotions are also contagious. The effect on behavior is perhaps more subtle. (slide links)

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/academia_vs_business.png

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Not mentioned, but a great story of how three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals by creating software that randomly generated, nonsense papers, one of which was subsequently published in conference with “loose standards”.

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