Hah, I think I need to remember that the world is running out of space for three letter acronyms!
Natural Language Processing certainly sounds very interesting and in an engineering world that's abstracted and represented in algebraic variables, I can certainly see an instant benefit for what I'm doing in understanding the material (if *nothing* else). Lisa I've taken your recommendation of Herb Clark's book and will grab it from Amazon forthwith. I suppose my take on Neuro Linguistic Programming (given the limited time I've spent looking at it) is that its techniques are based upon an model of the patterns that our minds follow - how we learn, retain information, behave, etc. which, assuming it is accurate, would be good for our overall understanding of humans. So in this respect, it might be able to help to remove a part of the uncertainty in any design that I undertake. My 'pretend its magic' (can you tell I've been reading?) aim for what I'm going to be doing is that I can use behavioural patterns so that out applications can be to our field what Derren Brown is to 'mind reading' (If you haven't heard of him, I suggest you go to Amazon and grab a DVD / unbox video - it is absolutely fascinating - and great entertainment to boot!). I gather his methods are partially rooted in the same sort of theory that Neuro Linguistic Programming is. It could be that it is a red herring - and human psychology as a whole is something I just need to look at more. After all, I have virtually no understanding of any sort of social science - I trained in Physics and Naval Architecture, so I've a very steep learning curve ahead of me in IxD. Re-reading this, perhaps I need to temper my enthusiasm and start slowly ( http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01D844) =] Thanks, all, for the input! Alex. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
