Tutorial: 22. The Psychology of Multimedia: Principles of Perception and Cognition

Douglas Gillan, New Mexico State University

Benefits
You will learn the theoretical foundations of how people perceive objects, color, depth in 2D displays, motion, speech and music. You will also learn how people comprehend text, graphics, animation and video.

Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.

Features

• learn about the principles of perception and cognition that underlie the design and use of multimedia systems
• learn about applied perceptual and cognitive research related to multimedia systems
• learn how to apply the basic principles of perception and cognition as you design user interfaces

Audience
Anyone interested in understanding how principles from perception and cognition can influence interface design.

Presentation
Lecture, demonstrations and a design/evaluation exercise.

Instructor
Douglas Gillan has extensive experience teaching courses in perception and cognition. He has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, has worked in industry (10 years) and academia (9 years) focusing on applying cognition and perception to human-computer interaction. Gillan teaches upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in perception, cognition, human factors, engineering psychology and multimedia.

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