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Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
12:00 AM
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Cognitive Sciences

Proposed Q&A site for practitioners and research professionals of the cognitive sciences

Currently in commitment.

We've got some questions recently that (better versions of) would fit into the Cognitive Sciences proposal... Based on the "I'd class computer questions related to cognitive topics as on-topic as long as it wasn't strictly about the programming." announcement there, I feel that there are going to be quite a few questions that'd be extremely interesting to programmers, when the site kicks off
I've reached the commit limit, I'm already commited to Software Law, Professional Matters & IT Careers & Training, so I can't commit to Cognitive Sciences... If you find it as interesting, please commit! The " for practitioners and research professionals of the cognitive sciences" is kinda scary, but enthusiasts / just curious people should commit as well - but possibly refrain from answering questions :)
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
1:03 AM
30 min outage... Not so bad really, but it was the first time I got one of those...
 
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Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
3:57 AM
Yeah, just got a nice answer badge for calling Bjarne Stroustrup a "particularly disturbed individual". The system works!
 
Ubermensch
Ubermensch
Rizos any idea of a programming contest
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
4:16 AM
@Ubermensch For the birthday even? I'll add anything that comes to mind in the dedicated room... And use Yannis instead of Rizos, Rizos is my surname, too formal for my taste :)
 
Ubermensch
Ubermensch
4:37 AM
Thanks Yannis, but where is your dedicated room? Apologies for asking it but I just can't find it. Is it the programmers secret
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
5:32 AM
@Ubermensch Also you could use the @username format, or the little arrow (far right when you hover above any comment in chat) to link your comment to a specific comment... That way people you're referring to (or their comments) will get a notification in their inbox...
 
 
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Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
12:13 PM
@YannisRizos Wouldn't some of those questions belong on ux.stackexchange.com?
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
12:37 PM
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed (in faculties such as perception, language, memory, reasoning, and emotion), represented, and transformed in behaviour, (human or other animal) nervous system or machine (e.g., computer). Cognitive science consists of multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and education. It spans many lev...
@StevenJeuris Care to explain the connection to ux?
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
How is the information of an interface processed ...
Relating to the quote you referenced: "I'd class computer questions related to cognitive topics as on-topic as long as it wasn't strictly about the programming."
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@StevenJeuris Well I guess it would take a very different version of your question to be on topic on Cognitive Sciences... I don't think there's really an overlap with ux...
@StevenJeuris Of course I'm only guessing. Cognitive Sciences has not kicked of yet, and I'm not a specialist, perhaps there's research to answer the question you posted on ux from a cognitive sciences perspective... I was puzzled at first with your comment because the questions I had in mind had absolutely nothing to do with user experience...
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
I answered that question myself since all of the answers were subjective.
Granted it's still only based on a psychological theoretical framework, but that's the type of answers I originally expected from UX. Perhaps I'm better off asking them on cognitive science.
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
@StevenJeuris I was just reading that :) Not sure human–computer interaction would be considered on topic at cognitive sciences (we'll have to wait and see)... Anyways ux as a field, is highly subjective, and the crowd there is more accustomed at giving subjective answers...
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
Well, it would be a nice distinction line to put down then. But I'm sure UX could still benefit by looking up references on Cognitive Sciences. :)
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
12:55 PM
ux is about hci as much as about perceptions, highly dynamic field... but everyone will benefit from cognitive sciences, that was my point - go commit!
 
Steven Jeuris
Steven Jeuris
k k :) I'll see how it turns out
 
Pierre 303
Pierre 303
1:39 PM
@YannisRizos: there is a complete field in Psychology (cognitive science) related to user interfaces.
It's called Ergonomy:
Ergonomic process - Work analysis
Physic and mental work load - Human error
Information processing - Ergonomic conception of work
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
2:04 PM
@Pierre303 Yeap, Steven's question caught me off guard... I didn't quite get what he meant, but certainly there is an overlap of cognitive sciences with user experience -not sure if the will be an overlap on the SE sites, I'm talking about the fields. For example cognitive walkthroughs may be on topic on UX but off topic on Cognitive Sciences, I can't really predict what the community there will consider on topic.
they might like to concentrate on more established and well researched concepts...
 
Pierre 303
Pierre 303
UX is a very very tiny part of Psychology, and I don't think it would be advisable to ask questions about software UI in the Cognitive Sciences site.
 
Yannis Rizos
Yannis Rizos
it's an extremely wide field and the community at some point will have to put some limits... for example philosophy is part of cognitive sciences, but they may opt to move all related questions to philosophy.stackexchange.com - something like how Programmers is not about code :)
@Pierre303 "I don't think it would be advisable to ask questions about software UI in the Cognitive Sciences site" - well commit and when it kicks off help shape the site! :)
 
Pierre 303
Pierre 303
@YannisRizos: I am, since October 11 ;)
 
 
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