Topic: Software\u00a0Interfaces and Human Behavior<\/p>\n
Adviser: Charlie Peck<\/p>\n
While this requires some additional refinement, I’ve settled on the general topic and hope to incorporate some of my interests from the other topics along the way.<\/p>\n
I will study how interfaces affect interactions between humans and computers. There is a rich history in this area, both in academia and in history\/current events. Charlie recommended the Apple design guidelines, an outstanding trove of insights about why components of a software or OS interface should be designed in a particular way.\u00a0From my own research I see that human-computer interaction (HCI) contributes\u00a0to choices about everything from Facebook privacy to nuclear meltdowns.<\/p>\n
In a potential paper, I would introduce the history of some high-profile HCI choices before zooming in on a few particular factors (to be determined) for more careful analysis and software design. This is a new area of study to me, so which factors I choose in particular will be determined upon completion of further research.<\/p>\n
For the software project,\u00a0I will approach this from the perspective of optimizing the response time\u00a0for a given interaction. I intend to create a simple application, likely web-based to make scale feasible, with two simple interfaces\u00a0and a series of prescribed interactions to be done in a given order. I have considered using a few of our local datasets: Iceland data, 911 emergency call data, transportation data, and a few public datasets on key topics. My intention with the software is to focus on the HCI components, so my preference is to use the data environment I am already familiar with as the backend for the project.<\/p>\n
Since the major concern with my and most projects is getting directly to the CS, I intend to focus in particular on these subdomains:<\/p>\n
In addition, this project draws on insights from several topics in the social sciences – behavioral economics, psychology, business – but I consider these topics as launch sites rather than journeys or landing sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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