mental model

One of the purposes of this sort of debugging is to find out where your mental model of the code diverges from reality.

Deleting from the lower right to the upper left maps to a strong, intrinsic mental model, so it seems natural.

Don also has a mental model for crisis situations that enabled him to determine that the group was "not in a crisis mode" (4).

A user's mental model doesn't necessarily have to be true or accurate, but it should enable him to work effectively.

A mental model can be something as simple as the image on a sign indicating where handicapped people can park their cars.

A real user's mental model is quite different. It's them, the software, and the entire network of other users.

From the research of user's mental model, we established a prototype of the system and finished the interface design.

A mental model of a task is typically streamlined and focused on the fundamental components of the task.

Management should recognize the essential lever for most change initiatives is the mental model of the individual organizational member.

Mental model is an important factor affecting innovation, and converging mental model will decrease innovation in the cluster.

Small, but crucial details of an actual event are likely to be forgotten because they are overwhelmed by the strength of the mental model.

The user also has a model, a mental model which he has built up according to his experiences in a site.

The mental model that people have about a particular task may make it easy or hard to use an interface that you have designed.

In the digital world, however, the differences between a user's mental model and the implementation model are often quite distinct.

The interface follows the mental model of graphic artists who are after a particular look, not a set of abstract numerical values.

They allow you to form a mental model of the information provided, where to find things, and what to expect when you click.

Unfortunately, this manifest model rapidly diverges from the user's mental model as the complexity of the situation grows.

When we apply these techniques universally, they become "second nature" and a part of the mental model we use to build websites.

This chapter focuses on formation process, cultivating means, and influencing factors of enterprise shared mental model.

The brain processes this in parallel, the figments of information asking a whole bunch of questions to create a unified mental model.

In the mental model of a task related to photography, the metaphors include photographs, cameras, and albums.

We can still offer users all the advantages of that extra copy on disk without exploding their mental model.

A mental model may be shared among scripts as Well.

To sum up, mental model deter mines the will, capacity and performance of independent innovation, playing an imperative role.

To conform to the user's mental model, it should then erase the original even though that contradicts the implementation model.

In particular, you'll discover some of the details of the mental model the user has of the task.

Image 14: The usability practitioner ensures that the form's structure accommodates the user's mental model, experience, and expectations.

A real user's mental model is quite different.

The following is a different approach to document management that better supports most users' mental model.

People always have a mental model in place about a certain object or task (paying my bills, reading a book, using a remote control).

Develop a mental model for classifying types of accounting accruals .

If they lack confidence in that mental model, they have less incentive to use the software themselves, [. . . ].

People's expectations about a product and the way it works are highly informed by their mental model.

The lifeblood of a firm is closely related to mental model and competence structure of entrepreneurs.

How they use the software is strongly conditioned on their mental model of how other users use it.

The user already has a mental model that describes the task your software is enabling.

I mean that was his mental model, a very different concept.

Then the defect of mental model in the enterprises that need BPR is analyzed.

Figure 17-4: The revised file menu now better reflects the user's mental model, rather than the programmer's implementation model.

Connitivists create a mental model of short-term and long-term memory.

But instead the entire team creates a shared mental model that they can all agree on and move forward on.

By graying things out when they shouldn't be used people can start building an accurate mental model as to how your application works.

For many people in the media business, that's still their mental model of the web.

The first reason is that developers often have a flawed mental model of their own software.

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