{"id":179,"date":"2007-02-24T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/179"},"modified":"2007-02-24T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T23:33:13","slug":"psychology-of-info-space-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/179","title":{"rendered":"Psychology of info-space navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m also fascinated by the psychology of getting around in unfamiliar info-spaces. In order to find a workaround for my problem outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/177\">Geek TV: open source rocks<\/a>, I had to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>find anchor points<\/li>\n<li>learn terminology<\/li>\n<li>learn systemic interactions<\/li>\n<li>build an environment for experimentation<\/li>\n<li>build models of a system with dozens of components<\/li>\n<li>perform experiments<\/li>\n<li>twiddle code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and finally, reason about interactions between things I don&#8217;t understand, within a system I don&#8217;t understand, driven by a practical problem that I wanted to solve. And this all took place in a period of days, in a total of a couple dozen hours, on and off, with the final effort between getting annoyed with the problem and having a workaround occurring in a couple hours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really like to know more about how all that happens. I know that lots of academics have spent lots of effort on learning about that, and I have spent some time delving into their research, but still, I don&#8217;t feel like I have much of a feel for the most important parts of the whole process. It&#8217;s fun, in any case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m also fascinated by the psychology of getting around in unfamiliar info-spaces. In order to find a workaround for my problem outlined in Geek TV: open source rocks, I had to: find anchor points learn terminology learn systemic interactions build an environment for experimentation build models of a system with dozens of components perform experiments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,39,42,43,46,51],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-learning","tag-ponderings","tag-psychology","tag-ramblings","tag-science","tag-software","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}