Towards establishing design principles for balancing usability and maintaining cognitive abilities

• Main Authors: BALASUBRAMANIAN, Gayathri, LEE, Hyowon, POON, King Wang, LIM, Wee Kiat, YONG, Wai Keet
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Design practice; Technology use over time; Persuasive System Design; User interface; Gamification; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cmp_research/7; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=cmp_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

While technology has improved the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of work, its prolonged use also weakens users’ cognitive abilities over time. By creating usable, efficient, emotive, and engaging experiences, HCI researchers and practitioners have inadvertently led users to offload their innate cap...