17.May.2010 A little knowledge…
… is a dangerous thing, and today proves this. When you start reading about eye movement (and this is my core PhD topic), a lot of texts go like: ok, so the eye movement is made up of jumps (called saccades) and times when the eye is stationary (fixations). You also have backward jumps (regressions) [...]
16.May.2010 “Doing better but feeling worse”
During research I came across an interesting article. Completely unrelated to legibility, but quite relevant to every day life. Here is the abstract: Expanding upon Simon’s (1955) seminal theory, this investigation compared the choice-making strategies of maximizers and satisficers, finding that maximizing tendencies, although positively correlated with objectively better decision outcomes, are also associated with [...]
10.May.2010 What does doodling do?
Interesting article: “Doodling is a way of passing the time when bored by a lecture or telephone call. Does it improve or hinder attention to the primary task? To answer this question, 40 participants monitored a monotonous mock telephone message for the names of people coming to a party. Half of the group was randomly [...]