We suck at creating effective interfaces for exploring and utilizing the Internet. In particular, I want to complain about the browser. I spend a huge portion of my waking life and cognitive energies working in a single Chrome browser window. This browser is the interface to my work environment, my school environment, and large parts of my … Continue reading Drinking from the firehose: extended cognition & shitty interfaces
Tag: psychology
“Will you or won't you have it so?” is the most probing question we are ever asked; we are asked it every hour of the day, and about the largest as well as the smallest, the most theoretical as well as the most practical, things. We answer by consents or non-consents and not by words. What wonder … Continue reading William James on the “Like” Button
Instrumentalism and Psychology The field of science studies has increasingly brought into question the role of instruments in the production of knowledge. Works such as Shapin and Schaffer's “Leviathan and the Air Pump” and Latour's “Laboratory Life” question whether experimental instruments and technologies are concrete proof of the objectivity of scientific inquiry, or perhaps whether … Continue reading Notes from the Psychology Underground: Titchener’s Science of Introspection
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