Come to think of it, any book about interaction design is also about human behavior. Good books actually extract and spell out the behavior as a set of axioms. 'About Face', for instance.
Oleh On 10/10/07, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:42:28, paiges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I am looking for a book/blog/rule/something more along the lines of > > the behavioral psychology of interacting with digital media. > > > > How can you explain to someone that even logical things > > can have behavioral consequences? > > > By using logical arguments. In the example you gave, you could have > referred to the information scent of the links and to the resulting lack of > sense of control, safety, support for exploration by the user. > > Behavioral psychology does not depend on interaction with digital media; > the digital media can, should, and does adjust to the behavior of humans. I > would recommend reading general behavioral psychology books and adjusting > the knowledge of human behavior to the specific problem. I do not have one > book to recommend (I have read about ten, each with strong and weak sides). > > Oleh > > > -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is the Design of Time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
