4 ms·

I would like there to be some promise of not wasting people's attention. Or maybe that is one of the "resources"?

crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
I'm developing a scientific theory of design that includes preserving attention. I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this.
- jraedisch 10y ago
  Did you see this article? https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3 https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds... Apart from that I'll gladly try to write down my own thoughts, but that might take a while. Is the progress you are making accessible somewhere?
  - crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
    I was really excited when I read that article a few weeks ago because I'd like to find more people working on this. What I'm working on only just started taking shape a couple weeks ago, so all I have are some pages in a notebook. I've been laying out observations & hypotheses. Over the last few days, I've started looking into the structures of scientific theories and will be typing up my notes starting today. It'll all go into a repo under this org: https://github.com/mindfully https://github.com/mindfully
- worldsayshi 10y ago
  Nice. I've had some thoughts related to this idea. How do you test such theory? I think there is some profound idea lurking where "cache-misses" and convenience are overlapping. We can only keep so much information in our short term memory. The more convenient an interface is the more space is left for information that is strictly important for the task that the user is trying to solve. Also, as humans I believe we use association for populating our "cache". So if we have an intuitive interface it helps us to "pre-cache" information because it will trigger the right associations at the right time. Distractions will trigger the wrong things to be "cached" by association and this will slow us down. Yet another critical factor is derailment. Or the opposite of being in the zone. If we miss the cache too much we tend to start analyzing ourselves rather than the problem. A second layer of distraction occurs. Or perhaps avoidance behaviors are triggered which further distracts us.
  - crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
    The current plan is to build an emotion recognition machine (http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu) and experiment on myself, combining that input with video and activity tracking.
JanAhrens 10y ago
Do you mean something like http://timewellspent.io http://timewellspent.io?

I'm developing a scientific theory of design that includes preserving attention. I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this.

jraedisch 10y ago
Did you see this article? https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3 https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds... Apart from that I'll gladly try to write down my own thoughts, but that might take a while. Is the progress you are making accessible somewhere?
- crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
  I was really excited when I read that article a few weeks ago because I'd like to find more people working on this. What I'm working on only just started taking shape a couple weeks ago, so all I have are some pages in a notebook. I've been laying out observations & hypotheses. Over the last few days, I've started looking into the structures of scientific theories and will be typing up my notes starting today. It'll all go into a repo under this org: https://github.com/mindfully https://github.com/mindfully
worldsayshi 10y ago
Nice. I've had some thoughts related to this idea. How do you test such theory? I think there is some profound idea lurking where "cache-misses" and convenience are overlapping. We can only keep so much information in our short term memory. The more convenient an interface is the more space is left for information that is strictly important for the task that the user is trying to solve. Also, as humans I believe we use association for populating our "cache". So if we have an intuitive interface it helps us to "pre-cache" information because it will trigger the right associations at the right time. Distractions will trigger the wrong things to be "cached" by association and this will slow us down. Yet another critical factor is derailment. Or the opposite of being in the zone. If we miss the cache too much we tend to start analyzing ourselves rather than the problem. A second layer of distraction occurs. Or perhaps avoidance behaviors are triggered which further distracts us.
- crawfordcomeaux 10y ago
  The current plan is to build an emotion recognition machine (http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu) and experiment on myself, combining that input with video and activity tracking.

JanAhrens 10y ago

Do you mean something like http://timewellspent.io http://timewellspent.io?