Research Bibliography for AllBusiness.com's "Want to Increase Business Traffic? Play This Game to Learn a Design Trick"
I published Want to Increase Business Traffic? Play This Game to Learn a Design Trick, a study of how some website menu systems can drive business away, on AllBusiness.com. The article deals with information and how the mind-brain decides what something is and how to remember it.
The concept of information design is long and has a rich history of investigation. My thoughts on why some menu systems won't optimize and how others will comes from lots of research (doesn't it always? Sometimes I wish I would simply come up with a glib answer with no backing or science behind it. Can't do it. I start laughing too hard) some of which is available below.
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3. Barinaga, M. 1997. Consciousness Research: Visual System Provides Clues to How the Brain Perceives. Science 275 (14 March):1583–90.
4. Barlow, R. B. J. 1990. What the Brain Tells the Eye. Scientific Americam 262(4), April:90–95.
5. Bayley, H. 1952. The Lost Language of Symbolism. NY, NY: Citadel Press.
6. ------. 1952. The Lost Language of Symbolism Volume II. NY, NY: Citadel Press.
7. Bennet, B. M., D. D. Hoffman, and C. Prakash. 1989. Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception. Academic Press.
8. Berger, A., and M. Posner. 2000. Pathologies of brain attentional networks. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 24(1), January:3–5. Http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=Orienting+of+attention&title_type=tka&author=Posner&year_from=1900&year_to=2003&database=1&pageSize=20&index=5.
9. Bloom, F. E., and A. Lazerson. 1988. Brain, Mind, and Behavior 2nd Edition. New York: Freeman and Co.
10. Bub, D. N., M. E. Masson, and C. M. Bukach. 2003. Gesturing and naming: The use of functional knowledge in object identification. Psychological Science 14(5), September:467–72.
11. Carrabis, J. 2001. Internal Experience and the Web. NextStage Evolution Research Paper.
12. ------. 2004. A Primer on Modality Engineering. NextStage Evolution Research Whitepaper. Scotsburn, NS: Northern Lights Publishing. Http://www.nextstagevolution.com/researchpapers.cfm#pme.
13. ------. 2006. Focusing Your Customer’s Attention. ImediaConnections, 24 February. Http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/8412.asp.
14. Cook, R. G., and J. D. Smith. 2006. Stages of Abstraction and Exemplar Memorization in Pigeon Category Learning. Psychological Science 12 (December):1059–67. Http://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/goToSynergy.cfm?issn=0956–7976&date=2006&article=01833.
15. Coren, S., C. Porac, and L. M. Ward. 1979. Sensation and Perception. Academic Press.
16. Epstein, R., and N. Kanwisher. 1998. A cortical representation of the local visual environment. Nature 392 (9 April):598–601.
17. Ernst, M. O., and M. S. Banks. 2002. Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion. Nature 415 (24 January):429–33.
18. Freedman, D. J., and J. A. Assad. 2006. Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex. Nature 443 (27 August):85–88. Http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7107/pdf/nature05078.pdf.
19. Frey, B. J., and D. Dueck. 2007. Clustering by Passing Messages Between Data Points. Science 315 (16 February):972–76. Http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/315/5814/972.pdf.
20. Fukunaga, K. 1990. Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
21. Hoffman, D. D. 1998. Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See. New York: W.W. Horton & Company.
22. Kapur, N., and P. Abbott. 1996. A Study of Recovery of Memory Function in a Case of Witnessed Functional Retrograde Amnesia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 1(3), 1 August:247–58.
23. Konttinen, N., and H. Lyytinen. 1993. Brain slow waves preceding time-locked visuo-motor performance. Journal of Sport Sciences 11:257–66.
24. Kramer, A. F., and A. Jacobson. 1991. Perceptual organization and focused attention: The role of objects and proximity in visual processing. Perception and Psychophysics 50:267–84.
25. Libet, B., E. Wright Jr., B. Feinstein, and D. Pearl. 1979. Subjective referral of the timing for a conscious experience: A functional role for the somatosensory specific projection system in man. Brain 102:193–224.
26. Mack, A., and I. Rock. 1998. Inattentional Blindness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
27. McNeil, D. 1992. Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
28. Michie, D. 1995. Consciousness as an Engineering Issue, Part 2. Journal of Consciousness Studies 2(1):52–66.
29. Pocket, S. 2002. On Subjective Back-Referral and How Long It Takes to Become Conscious of a Stimulus: A Reinterpretation of Libet’s Data. Consciousness and Cognition 11(2), June:144–61.
30. Prinzmetal, W., and A. Wilson. 1997. The Effect of Attention on Phenomenal Length. UCal Berkeley, U Oregon. Http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~wprinz/research/Length.pdf.
31. Reber, A. S. 1993. Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge. An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious. Oxford Psychology Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
32. Rees, G., C. Russell, C. D. Frith, and J. Driver. 1999. Inattentional Blindness Versus Inattentional Amnesia for Fixated But Ignored Words. Science 286 (24 December):2504–7. Http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/286/5449/2507.pdf.
33. Regan, D. 2000. Human Perception of Objects. Sinaur Associates Inc.
34. Reiss, J. E., and J. E. Hoffman. 2006. Object Substitution Masking Interferes With Semantic Processing Evidence From Event-Related Potentials. Psychological Science 17(12), December:1015–20. Http://docstore.ingenta.com/cgi-bin/ds_deliver/1/u/d/ISIS/35894964.1/bpl/psci/2006/00000017/00000012/art00002/5908F46D7D6952411173192657992D4DABCBF6D011.pdf?link=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/error/delivery&format=pdf.
35. Rock, I. 1984. Perception. NYC: Scientific American Books.
36. Sewall, L., Ph.D. 1999. Sight and Sensibility. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher.
37. Shettleworth, S. J. 1998. Cognition, Evolution and Behavior. Oxford: Oxford.
38. Tanenhaus, M. K., M. J. Spivey-Knowlton, K. M. Eberhard, and J. C. Sedivy. 1995. Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension. Science 268 (16 June):1632–34. Http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/268/5217/1632.pdf.
39. Tuan, Y.-F. 1977. Space and Place. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
40. Tufte, E. R. 1990. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT, USA: Graphics Press.
41. ------. 1997. Visual Explanations. Cheshire, CT, USA: Graphics Press.
42. Volk, T. 1995. Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind. NYC: Columbia University Press.
43. Weed, L. E. 2003. The Structure of Thinking: A process-oriented account of mind. Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic.
44. Wolfe, J. M., T. S. Horowitz, and N. M. Kenner. 2005. Rare items often missed in visual searches. Nature 435 (26 May):439–40.
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