Reference Information
Title: Why We Make Mistakes
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
Editors: Broadway Books (2009)
Chapter 4: We Wear Rose Colored Glasses (20 Pages)
Summary
Hallinan basically talks about how we see our memories through "rose-colored glasses". What that means is that we remember things that we do or say better than they actually were/are. We tend to make ourselves sound better than reality.
Examples he gave were: the Watergate scandal and how Dean remembered events completely differently from how they actually occurred, gamblers and their wins, losses and near wins, and students remembering their grades.
Hallinan basically talks about how we see our memories through "rose-colored glasses". What that means is that we remember things that we do or say better than they actually were/are. We tend to make ourselves sound better than reality.
Examples he gave were: the Watergate scandal and how Dean remembered events completely differently from how they actually occurred, gamblers and their wins, losses and near wins, and students remembering their grades.
Chapter 5: We Can Walk and Chew Gum - but Not Much Else (15 Pages)
Summary
In this chapter, the authors talks about the idea of multitasking. We think we do it but in all actuality, we really don't. Usually multitasking slows us down and makes us forget what we were doing in the first place. It creates a need for downtime, the time it takes to refocus on the task at hand.
In this chapter, the authors talks about the idea of multitasking. We think we do it but in all actuality, we really don't. Usually multitasking slows us down and makes us forget what we were doing in the first place. It creates a need for downtime, the time it takes to refocus on the task at hand.
Discussion
I really like what i'm reading so far. The things he talk about seem fairly obvious after they are explained and are good to keep in mind in regards to HCI. This makes me think about the tablets and smartphones that are coming out today. A lot of them make big claims about "true multitasking" and things like that. I prefer Apple's limited multitasking approach, suspending apps in the background that are needed (aren't task completion, music playing, GPS, VoIP apps). I think having a movie playing in the background might be cool but it's unnecessary, especially on a device of limited resources.
I really like what i'm reading so far. The things he talk about seem fairly obvious after they are explained and are good to keep in mind in regards to HCI. This makes me think about the tablets and smartphones that are coming out today. A lot of them make big claims about "true multitasking" and things like that. I prefer Apple's limited multitasking approach, suspending apps in the background that are needed (aren't task completion, music playing, GPS, VoIP apps). I think having a movie playing in the background might be cool but it's unnecessary, especially on a device of limited resources.
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