unit 9 disc 1
Unit 9: Assignment #1 (due before 11:59 pm Central on MON MAR 18):
a.First, read Kendra Cherry’s (no date) article, “What Is Perception?”
b.Then, choose one of the following nine questions and complete its associated activities:
1.What Is Skeumorphism and How Does It Work?
§Read The Cultural Tutor’s (2023) Twitter thread.
§Read Hannes’s (2022) article, “Why We Keep Referencing the Past to Feel Good About the Future, or: A Brief History of Skeuomorphism.”
§Skim read (meaning you don’t have to read this article as closely as you do all the other articles in this class) Park et al.’s (2014) article, “The Study Concerning the Concreteness and Abstractness of Icon Design.”
§Read the abstract and look at the figures in Urbano et al.’s (2020) article, “From Skeuomorphism to Flat Design: Age-Related Differences in Performance and Aesthetic Perceptions.”
2.What Is Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and What Role Has The Internet Played in Popularizing It?
§Read Danko’s (2021) article, “22 Fascinating Facts about ASMR.”
§Read Reddy’s (2022) article, “ASMR or Not? Unpacking the Science Behind a Sensory Phenomenon.”
§For the most recent scientific research on ASM, read the abstracts of the following three scientific articles (contained in the same PDF):
§Lohaus et al.’s (2023) article, “The Effects of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Videos Versus Walking Tour Videos on ASMR Experience, Positive Affect and State Relaxation”
§Villena-Gonzalez et al.’s (2023) article, “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response Is Associated with a Larger Heartbeat-Evoked Potential Amplitude without Differences in Interoceptive Awareness”
§Sakurai et al.’s (2023) article, “Brain Function Effects of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Video Viewing”
3.Can Psychology Inform Good Web Design?
§Read Shuan Thing’s (2014) article, “Five Psychology Studies That Tell Us How People Perceive Visual Information.”
§Read Jimmy Day and Cherilyn Winkler’s (2013) article, “A Visual History of Internet Explorer.” [Note the changes in the web browser, Internet Explorer’s, design layout.]
§View the NinjaEssays’ (2013) infographic, “What Popular Websites Used to Look Like.”
§Watch Psychologist Don Norman in this (2016) Vox video, “It’s Not You. Bad Doors Are Everywhere.”
§Look through Andrew Wilson’s (2021) tweet that shows three examples of “Norman Doors.“
4.What Are CAPTCHAs and How Do They Work?
§Look through all four of these screenshots of image CAPTCHAs: (a) Chihuahua dogs’ faces versus blueberry muffins, (b) Labradoodle dogs’ bodies versus crispy fried chicken pieces, (c) curled-up sleeping puppies versus bagels, and (d) sloths’ faces versus chocolate croissants.
§Watch CNet’s (2015) YouTube video, “What is the Turing Test?”
§Read ScienceABC’s (no date) article, “How Do CAPTCHAs Work?”
§Read Bruce’s (2011) article, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CAPTCHAs but Were Afraid to Ask.”
§Read Wilson’s (2017) article, “The Surprising Secrets Behind Those CAPTCHA Images.”
§Read Prusty’s (2014) article, “How does Google’s No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA work?”
5.What Is Virtual Reality and How Does It Work?
§Read Jonathan Strickland’s (no date) article, “How Virtual Reality Works.”
§Read Tom Vanderbilt’s (2016) article, “These Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real.”
§Read Virginia Heffernan’s (2014) article, “Virtual Reality Fails Its Way to Success.”
§Watch Chris Kluwe’s (2016) TED talk, “The Birth of Virtual Reality as an Art Form.” (A transcript is available in 21 languages here.)
6.Are There Any Benefits to E-Reading?
§Read Rachel Edidin’s (2014) article, “People Who Use E-Readers Dive Far Deeper Into Books.”
§Read Devapriya Roy’s (2014) article, “Five Things That Made Me Two-Time Paper Books with My E-Reader.”
§Read Irene Picton’s (2014) article, “The Impact of eBooks on the Reading Motivation and Reading Skills of Children and Young People.”
§Read Joseph Stromberg’s (2014) article, “7 Things the Most-Highlighted Kindle Passages Tell Us about American Readers.”
7.Are There Any Benefits to Taking Photos of our Experience?
§Read Andy Luttrell’s (2016) article, “Taking Pictures Increases Enjoyment and Enhances Experiences,” which discusses a research article by Diehl, Zauberman, and Barasch.
§Read Purtill’s (2016) article, “Research Finds That Taking a Photo and Enjoying the Moment Aren’t Two Separate Things,” which also discusses the research article by Diehl, Zauberman, and Barasch.
§Watch one of the researchers, Gal Zauberman, Professor of Marketing at Yale University, describe why the research team conducted the research they conducted in the video “Does Taking Photos Make Experiences More Enjoyable?”
§Skim-read the actual research article by Diehl, Zauberman, and Barasch, which is titled “How Taking Photos Increases Enjoyment of Experiences.”
8.Why Is #TheDress Perceived as White/Gold by Some People and Blue/Black by Other People?
§View #TheDress. What colors do you perceive it to be? White and Gold OR Blue and Black?
§From Wikipedia, read about the origin of #TheDress and responses to #TheDress.
§View and analyze the Lotto-Barnhart (modified) Illusion.
§Read Tony Barnhart’s (2015) blog post, “#TheDress Seen in a New Light.”
§View and analyze the Adelson Checkerboard Illusion.
§Read Science Daily’s (2015) post “Is ‘The Dress’ White and Gold or Blue and Black? Visual Perception Expert Weighs In.”
9.Can We Identify Photos on the Internet that Have Been Photoshopped?
§Read Science Daily’s (2017) article, “Fake News: Study Tests People’s Ability to Detect
Manipulated Images of Real-World Scenes,” which discusses a research article by Nightingale, Wade, and Watson.
§Read Live Science’s (2017) article, “Duped by Photoshop: People Are Bad at Spotting Fake Photos,” which also discusses the research article by Nightingale, Wade, and Watson.
§Watch the L.A. Times (2017) video, “As Doctored Photos Flood the Internet, Human Vision Struggles to Keep Up,” which again discusses the research article by Nightingale, Wade, and Watson.
§Skim-read the actual research article by Nightingale, Wade, and Watson, which is titled “Can People Identify Original and Manipulated Photos of Real-World Scenes?”
c.Go to the Unit 9: Assignment #1 and #4 Discussion Board and make a new post of at least 200 words in which you do the following:
1.Identify which of the nine questions you chose to learn the answer to.
2.Tell us why you chose that question (e.g., do you have any personal experience with it?).
3.Answer the question you chose by referring to ALL the articles/abstracts/tweets you read or videos you watched to answer the question (be sure to refer to the articles or videos with the authors’ or speakers’ names).
Unit 9: Assignment #4 (due before 11:59 pm Central on FRI MAR 22):
a.Read all the posts written by the other members of your section in the Unit 9: Assignment #1 and #4 Discussion Board.
b.Review from the Course Syllabus the “Best Way to Respond to Another Student’s Discussion Board Post” (p. 6). Remember that your responses should always include at least two of the four recommended components.
c.Then, write TWO response posts:
1.one response post should be to a student who read about (and discussed) the same question as you, and
2.the other response post should be to a student who read about (and discussed) a different question than you.
3.Each of your two response posts should be at least 200 words.
4.If no other student read about (and discussed) the same question as you, then you may respond to two students, each of whom read about (and discussed) a different question than you.
5.If two other students in your section have not yet posted on the Unit 9: Assignment #1 Discussion Board, you will need to wait until they do OR until the due date for Unit 9: Assignment #1 has passed.
6.You will not be held responsible for responding to two other students’ posts if the Unit 9: Assignment #1 due date has passed, and two other students have not yet posted on Unit 9: Assignment #1 Discussion Board.
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