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Category Archives: information architecture
Working memory: recognizing our cognitive limits
Working memory and chunking – without understanding these vital concepts in human terms, we cannot design information systems interfaces that will work with people’s ability to retain only so much at one time in memory. If the interface does not … Continue reading
Posted in cognition, content management, human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, management of information systems and technology, user experience, user-centered design
Tagged chunking, cognition, cognitive limits, content management, George Miller, magic number seven, working memory
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What Hubble 3D teaches us about model-based reasoning
Greetings, Near the end of the relatively brief (45 min.) Hubble 3D Imax movie, I sat transfixed with my 3D glasses as I watched a fly-through sequence composed of Hubble images extending at greater resolution into the furthest visualized part … Continue reading
Posted in human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, management of information systems and technology, online learning and teaching, user experience
Tagged information architecture, instructional design, learner experience, mental model, model-based reasoning, physical model
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Google’s Last Wave (RIP)
Google’s last Wave has struck the beach. It’s hard to untangle what may have contributed to it: the lack of reaching a critical mass of adopters, or not communicating with external email applications, or aspects of its interface that were … Continue reading
Authentic Learning Innovation in an Online Music Course
Here is a Web-based version of my EDULEARN10 conference presentation on the topic: Authentic Learning Innovation in an Online Music Course http://www.programhouse.com/webpres/phedulearn10pres1.htm This Web-based PowerPoint presentation (optimized for the Internet Explorer browser) describes the rationale and strategy for an authentic … Continue reading
Posted in conducting research online, content management, digital repositories, emerging educational technology, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, online learning and teaching, user experience
Tagged authentic assessment, authentic learning, curriculum innovation, digital data repository, information architecture, instructional design, intellectual property, learner experience, learning style, online audio and video material, situated learning, social learning, user experience
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Intelligence Revisited – what recent research reveals
As noted in my other blog entries, my research, writing, and consulting work over the past decade has focused on collective human characteristics called “individual differences” and what that means to people in the roles of customers, users, and learners. … Continue reading
Posted in conducting research online, content management, customer experience management, digital repositories, human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, online learning and teaching, user experience
Tagged audio, aural, content management, individual difference, information architecture, instructional design, intelligence, learner experience, music, research, video, visual
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A mental model of the customer, user, and learner experience
Digging Beyond User Preferences (Mental Models) In my research, writing, and consulting work over the past decade, I have focused on a single concept (satisfaction) and what it means to people in the roles of customers, users, and learners. I … Continue reading
Posted in conducting research online, customer experience management, human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, online learning and teaching, strategic management of technology innovation
Tagged customer experience, customer experience management, individual differences, information architecture, instructional design, learner experience, mental model, mental representation, user experience
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Teacher uses Skype to link class to homebound student
As technology-using teachers, trainers, and other professionals, we can become so immersed in our “nuts and bolts” thinking about emerging digital technology that we often miss seeing the forest from the trees. A story worth re-telling here for seeing that … Continue reading
Posted in emerging educational technology, human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, management of information systems and technology, online learning and teaching, social networking, user experience
Tagged homebound students, information architecture, instructional design, learner experience, Skype, technology-using teachers, video conferencing, VoIP
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