Lecture 8: More Principles Flashcards
1
Q
What is Fitts’s Law?
A
describes speed-accuracy tradeoff of human muscle movement
used for tapping interfaces
2
Q
What is Hick’s Law?
A
describes the relationship between the number of stimuli present and an individual’s reaction time to a given stimulus
# of choices influences reaction time
3
Q
What is Miller’s Law?
A
Humans keep 7 +-2 chunks of information in working memory
4
Q
What is the Serial Position Effect?
A
we recall the first and last thing more than the middle things
5
Q
What is the Von Restorff Effect?
A
when similar objects are presented, the one that’s different from the rest will most likely be remembered
6
Q
What is conceptual simplicity?
A
intuitiveness
7
Q
What is discoverability?
A
user’s ability to find key information that’s needed to complete a task
