It’s funny to see that nowadays we rely very much on vision for input devices for our computers/phones. Touch screens have become very common, with a good reason. They are easy to use, easy to learn, and when you don’t need the keyboard you can use the same screen estate for other purposes (such as …
Category Archives: perception
Tagclouds with Wordle: color, font and orientation
In my previous post about tag clouds I briefly mentioned alternative sorting principles. Martien Heijmink’s weblog VIBE pointed me towards
Neuroscience + pedagogy: neuropedagogy?
Where two fields of science meet, a new one can be born. Biomedicine has the parents biology and medicine, biochemistry from biology and chemistry and neuropsychology from neuroscience and psychology. There is still no such thing as neuropedagogy though, or, the other way around: pedagogical neurology. However, it is not difficult to see that it …
Media overload
Long long ago, life was simple. Fewer options, easier choices. Less information though. This picture illustrates the differences between the media landscape in 1960 and in 2004 nicely.