Some slides and references from my talk at the UPA conference in Atlanta, June of 2011

1. The Psychology of Usability UPA June 2011

2. Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. susan@humanfactors.com www.humanfactors.com 715-352-2816 @thebrainlady

5. People Pay Attention Only To Salient Information (#45)

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9. People Use Peripheral Vision More Than Central To Get The “Gist” Of The Scene (#2) Larson, Adam, & Loschky, L (2009). The contributions of central versus peripheral vision to scene gist recognition. Journal of Vision, 9(10:6)

11. If you use decorative fonts people may think the task is harder (#15) Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2008). If it’s hard to read, it’s hard to do: Processing fluency affects effort prediction and motivation. Psychological Science, 19, 986–988.

12. If you use decorative fonts people may think the task is harder (#15) 8 minutes Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2008). If it’s hard to read, it’s hard to do: Processing fluency affects effort prediction and motivation. Psychological Science, 19, 986–988.

13. If you use decorative fonts people may think the task is harder (#15) 8 minutes 15 minutes Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2008). If it’s hard to read, it’s hard to do: Processing fluency affects effort prediction and motivation. Psychological Science, 19, 986–988.

14. People Remember Only 4 Items at Once (#20) Baddeley, A. D. (1994). The magical number seven: Still magic after all these years? Psychological Review, 101, 353-356. Broadbent, D. (1975). The magic number seven after fifteen years. In: Studies in long-term memory, ed. A. Kennedy & A. Wilkes. Wiley. Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 87-185.

15. People Reconstruct Memories Each Time They Remember Them (#24) Loftus, Elizabeth & Palmer, J. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction:An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 585-589.

16. People Use Look and Feel As The First Indicator of Trust (#79) Sillence, Elizabeth, Briggs, P. Fishwick, L., & Harris, P. (2004). Trust and mistrust of online health sites. CHI’04 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference On Human Factors In Computer Systems. New York: ACM.

17. People Make Most Decisions Unconsciously (#90)

18. People Create Mental Models (#31)

20. People Expect Online Interactions To Follow Social Rules (#66)

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22. Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. susan@humanfactors.com www.humanfactors.com 715-352-2816 @thebrainlady