This blog is first and foremost a place for me to keep notes on the subject of human-computer interaction. I don't know that I will get to the point of composing posts in a manner that other people will want to read, but maybe in the future.
For my graduate program, I have a general idea of what I think I want my research subject to be, although I'm aware that these things can shift over time. I may also end up becoming involved in an as-yet unforeseen project that will change my research direction significantly. At the moment, I think I will focus on the subject of attention and/or distraction as they relate to the use or design of computer systems. I have a more narrow topic for which I was using specific key words and phrases but, as I will explain, I have abandoned that specificity for now.
I started my reading looking up articles within the SIGCHI proceedings. Initially the key words I used resulted in a manageable number of hits. My list of articles was quite large but it was within my capability to read all of them over the course of a year certainly and perhaps even over the course of a semester. On a whim, however, I decided to take my key words over to a psychology database and there the same key words resulted in tens of thousands of hits, far more than I could ever read in years of study. Nevertheless I skimmed a few abstracts to try to get an idea of how these psychology studies might differ from those within the HCI field.
Many of them referred to 'CLT' or 'cognitive load theory.' My subsequent search to learn about CLT led me to a discovery about which I had previously been ignorant: that scholarly presses in various fields publish general overviews on a variety research subject matter. One such book was the following:
(Cognitive Load Theory: UMBC Books & Media) By: Brünken, Roland; Moreno, Roxana; Plass, Jan L. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 2010.
After that I discovered
(Looking for information : a survey of research on information seeking, need...: UMBC Books & Media) By: Case, Donald Owen. Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2016
And finally
(Attention. [electronic resource] : theory and practice: UMBC Books & Media) By: Johnson, Addie. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004
I will summarize those books in a future post.
For my graduate program, I have a general idea of what I think I want my research subject to be, although I'm aware that these things can shift over time. I may also end up becoming involved in an as-yet unforeseen project that will change my research direction significantly. At the moment, I think I will focus on the subject of attention and/or distraction as they relate to the use or design of computer systems. I have a more narrow topic for which I was using specific key words and phrases but, as I will explain, I have abandoned that specificity for now.
I started my reading looking up articles within the SIGCHI proceedings. Initially the key words I used resulted in a manageable number of hits. My list of articles was quite large but it was within my capability to read all of them over the course of a year certainly and perhaps even over the course of a semester. On a whim, however, I decided to take my key words over to a psychology database and there the same key words resulted in tens of thousands of hits, far more than I could ever read in years of study. Nevertheless I skimmed a few abstracts to try to get an idea of how these psychology studies might differ from those within the HCI field.
Many of them referred to 'CLT' or 'cognitive load theory.' My subsequent search to learn about CLT led me to a discovery about which I had previously been ignorant: that scholarly presses in various fields publish general overviews on a variety research subject matter. One such book was the following:
(Cognitive Load Theory: UMBC Books & Media) By: Brünken, Roland; Moreno, Roxana; Plass, Jan L. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 2010.
After that I discovered
(Looking for information : a survey of research on information seeking, need...: UMBC Books & Media) By: Case, Donald Owen. Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2016
And finally
(Attention. [electronic resource] : theory and practice: UMBC Books & Media) By: Johnson, Addie. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004
I will summarize those books in a future post.
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