Tutorial: What Every IUI Researcher Should Know about Human Choice and Decision Making
Proceedings of IUI '11: 16th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Palo Alto, CA, USA, page 461. (2011)DOI: 10.1145/1943403.1943500
Abstract
IUI researchers do need to know something about human choice and decision making. Just consulting common knowledge or reading a textbook isn't enough, since the most IUI relevant concepts and results are found in a number of subareas of research on judgment and decision making, learning and habitual behavior, and strategies for influencing choices; and their relevance to IUI issues is hardly ever made explicit. This new tutorial aims to fill this gap: It presents relevant concepts and insights from psychological research with explicit reference to issues that IUI researchers typically encounter. With the help of the take-home supplementary material, participants will be able to understand and predict more realistically (though less confidently) the choices that users make about or with the help of their systems. And they can try in more imaginative ways to influence these choices. They might also think of a fresh research issue for their next project proposal.
