Category Archives: content management

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

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Collaborative reasoning with a social strategy

In my previous posts on the value of mental and physical models, I suggested that it is the dialog that we create between these two types of reasoning that helps us tackle the discovery of what is novel and complex: … Continue reading

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The “How To” of Mental Representations

Isaac Bashevis Singer “Who knows?” Whether it is walking across the street or browsing Web sites on the Internet, we need to know “how” to do something to be able to successfully navigate and perform tasks. Of course, we can … Continue reading

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Learner Experience (LX): A Virtuous Circle

Don’t be surprised by any uncertainty or cognitive dissonance in reading the title of this blog entry. I do not expect that invoking this phrase should cause immediate recognition of some existing discipline or perspective. Although “learner experience” as a … Continue reading

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Hick’s Law and the role of prior knowledge in choice

Rule-based reasoning plays an important role in interface design as it does in any science based discipline. One of the most commonly invoked rules related to navigation and menu selection is Hick’s Law. As it makes a case for simplicity, … Continue reading

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Wayfinding and the Camino

In my research and planning for walking the Camino de Santiago, I was comparing the various routes that lead through Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Aside from rainfall, temperature, and daylight hours, another factor for choosing a given route is … Continue reading

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The Way We Connect

In my travel to Spain to do research for a book on that topic, I journeyed through the north to Santiago de Compostela and by staying in a small inn outside of the city (the terminus of The Way of … Continue reading

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Strategic Networking: Internet as Innovation – The Second Wave

Now available in an e-book revision, the Strategic Networking book was collaboratively written with my co-author Gene De Libero. After some juggling with procedures for formatting and versioning, we achieved this in a highly interactive manner online using Google Docs. This … Continue reading

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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

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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

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