Some design aspects of a cognitive user interface

User Interface Design in Mobile Educational Applications

Introduction: User interfaces are a crucial factor in ensuring the success of mobile applications. Mobile Educational Applications not only provide flexibility in learning, but also allow learners to learn at any time and any place. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effective factors affecting the design of the user interface in mobile educational applications. Methods: Quantita...

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: User Interface Design

A Formal Basis for Modelling Process and Task Management Aspects of User Interface Design a Formal Basis for Modelling Process and Task Management Aspects of User Interface Design

This paper presents a method for formally specifying and reasoning about process models for interactive systems. The method addresses two important aspects of user interface design: controlled but exible access to functionality; and provision of useful task management information, such as indicating what progress has been made towards achieving goals and what remains to be done. The method is w...

Evaluating the Cognitive Impact of Search User Interface Design Decisions

The design of search user interfaces has developed dramatically over the years, from simple keyword search systems to complex combinations of faceted filters and sorting mechanisms. These complicated interactions can provide the searcher with a lot of power and control, but at what cost? Our own work has seen users experience a sharp learning curve with faceted browsers, even before they begin ...

User Interface Design and the Halo Effect: Some Preliminary Evidence

This paper draws on work from cognitive psychology and human-computer interaction to inquire into the extent to which assessments of web interface design are contaminated by the halo effect. The halo effect is a human cognitive bias in which a person’s overall affect toward an entity produces overtly positive or negative distortions in evaluations of the entity’s individual characteristics. The...