This episode discusses some psychological considerations in building computers like how to make them easier for humans to use, the uncanny valley problem when humanoid robots get more and more humanlike, and strategies to make our devices work better with us by incorporating our emotions and even altering our gaze. Oh, and we'll talk about Carrie Anne's all-time favorite user interface design principle - knurling.

Concepts

chunking, icons, artificial intelligence

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Additional Tags

affordances, interface design principle, interfaces, knurling, usability, crash course, psychology of computing

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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