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Glasgow East-117
1500-1550
Thursday 17 April 2008
Abstract: User interfaces create cognitive processes between computers and users that have a substantial effect on results. While much of the effort in user interface design has historically surrounded efficient and accurate data entry, minimization time spent in tasks, and enjoyable user experience, recent results show that user interfaces can also have a significant impact on the decisions that people and computers make. In this talk, Dr. Cohen will present some recent results in the induction and suppression of cognitive errors associated with judgment and decision making for certain classes of decisions made using user interfaces and presentations. The talk will include demonstrations with the audience making decisions, describe the results of recent experiments with user interfaces, and show how large numbers of small decisions can be made in near real time and with a reduction in certain common classes of cognitive errors.
Speaker Bio: Fred Cohen is best known as an inventor of computer virus defense techniques, the principal investigator whose team defined the information assurance problem as it relates to critical infrastructure protection, as a seminal researcher in the use of deception for information protection, and as a top flight information protection consultant and industry analyst. With almost 30 years of experience and a global reputation for integrity, accuracy, and innovation, Fred Cohen is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities in information protection. But that's not what he will be talking about when he is here...
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