#cognitive-load — Public Fediverse posts

@wauz

Die Studierenden sind ständig nur am Links- und Rechts-Wischen, um zwischen den verschiedenen Fenster zu wechseln, und haben das Zwischenergebnis schon wieder vergessen, bevor sie das richtige Fenster gefunden haben, um dieses zu notieren.

Das Tablet als einziges Arbeitswerkzeug "für alles" erzeugt aus meiner Sicht eine enorme kognitive Belastung bzw. einen #CognitiveLoad, wie man in der Lerntheorie sagt.

Zwischendurch ploppen dann noch alle möglichen Messenger-Benachrichtungen auf.

🔗 Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/
#bestpractices #ai #codequality #developerexperience #cognitiveload

Clean code rules were built for human memory limits, not machines. https://hackernoon.com/code-is-for-machines-not-humans #cognitiveload

🇬🇧 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝗔𝗗𝗛𝗗 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝘀𝗲)

𝖳𝗂𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝗈𝖿 𝖠𝖨 𝗀𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗐𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝖾𝗑𝗍? 𝖫𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗇 𝗁𝗈𝗐 𝗍𝗈 𝗆𝖺𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖦𝖾𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗂 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝖠𝖨 𝗍𝗈𝗈𝗅𝗌 𝗎𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗉𝗋𝖾𝖼𝗂𝗌𝖾, 𝗍𝖺𝗋𝗀𝖾𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝗇𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖼𝗎𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗆 𝖦𝖾𝗆𝗌. 𝖣𝗂𝗌𝖼𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋 𝗁𝗈𝗐 𝖺 𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗅𝗈𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝖠𝖣𝖧𝖣-𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗅𝗒 𝖥𝗈𝖼𝗎𝗌 𝖬𝗈𝖽𝖾 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗋𝖾𝖽𝗎𝖼𝖾 𝖼𝗈𝗀𝗇𝗂𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗅𝗈𝖺𝖽 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗂𝗆𝗉𝗋𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖽𝖺𝗂𝗅𝗒 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗄𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗐 𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍 𝗇𝗈𝗐.

https://dariusz.wieckiewicz.org/en/taming-ai-overwhelm/

#GoogleGemini
#GeminiGems
#ADHD
#Neurodiversity
#Accessibility
#CognitiveLoad
#Productivity
#FocusMode
#CustomAI
#PromptEngineering

Good discussion on Kate Manne's blog about gendered aspects of planning, cognitive load, anxiety, blame etc, especially as a parent.

"In Defense of Mom Anxiety"

(Substack, sorry)

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-mom-anxiety

#planning #parenting #CognitiveLoad #women #gender #anxiety

Eye contact is an over-stimulation of the "sixth sense."

— An Autistic Person

I wrote a #blog #post going into a bit more detail: https://textualmirror.mataroa.blog/blog/a-proposal-for-pronoun-usage-by-llms-other-non-conscious-entities/

(Written about "AI", but without using "AI".)

@leadore
@ancientsounds

Thanks for helping me think about this!

#AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs #confusion #perceptualDistortion #cognitiveLoad #TextualMirror #Mataroa #blogpost #pronoun #pronouns #selfreference #bot #bots #chatbot #chatbots #ChatGPT #Mistral #MistralAI #Claude #Anthropic #OpenAI #HuggingFace #consciousness #sentience #thinking #language #linguistics #agenticAI

What if we used specific first- and second-person pronouns for non-conscious entities? I think this might help avoid #confusion and #cognitiveload when interacting with #bots, etc. Any #linguists or #conlangers here who have seen attempted solutions to this problem (or who have a good idea of how it might be solved)?

#AI #LLM #LLMs #bot #chatbot #ChatGPT #Claude #pronoun #pronouns #linguistics #linguist #conlang #conlanger #agenticAI

Much food for thought at the tradeoffs between usability, security, and more. A consumer protection authority (CCPA) in India fined Zepto INR 700,000 a few months ago for using dark patterns. The amount is chicken feed compared with how much they may have ripped consumers off via those patterns.

https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/business-of-life/tap-regret-repeat-pitfalls-of-frictionless-design-11781772392426.html

#FrictionlessDesign #UXDesign #DarkPatterns #EthicalUX #DigitalWellbeing #HumanCenteredDesign #UserExperience #DesignEthics #AttentionEconomy #CognitiveLoad

Life's a journey (anche nel marketing), not a destination.

#Wayfinding design (design dell’orientamento): tecnica che sfrutta principi di psicologia cognitiva, neuromarketing e comunicazione visiva in modo efficace e "silenzioso".

Dal punto di vista visual, la dominanza assoluta del rosso restituisce una percezione precisa, perché il #rosso cattura l'attenzione più velocemente di quasi tutti gli altri colori, aumenta il livello di attivazione fisiologica (arousal), comunica urgenza, energia, movimento e direzione ed emerge immediatamente nel campo visivo periferico.

Il contrasto del bianco su rosso è uno dei più leggibili in assoluto.

Il cervello impiega pochissimo tempo a decodificare:

• testo
• simboli
• frecce

Inoltre elabora le forme prima delle parole e riconosce la direzione prima del contenuto, riducendo il #cognitiveload (carico cognitivo): il messaggio non si interpreta, si comprende subito.

Le pareti laterali rosse creano una sorta di “canale visivo”, questo produce un fenomeno chiamato "forced perspective guidance", dove l’attenzione viene letteralmente compressa verso il centro.

Anche se qui non c’è un marchio visibile, il design comunica:

• efficienza
• precisione
• ordine
• velocità

Sono tutti valori associati inconsciamente alla cultura elvetica, alla #svizzeritudine 🇨🇭

In marketing questo si chiama #brandtransfer: l’esperienza fisica trasferisce valori all’ambiente senza bisogno di loghi.

L'analisi neurologica è l'aspetto più intrigante: riscoprire l'acqua calda!

Sistema 1 di #Kahneman
Questa segnaletica parla quasi esclusivamente al "Sistema 1", ovvero al cervello rapido, intuitivo e automatico.

Non richiede ragionamento di nessun tipo, quello che potremmo assimilare all'istinto.

Il messaggio è:

rosso → attenzione
frecce → scendi
testo → conferma

L’intera sequenza viene elaborata in poche centinaia di millisecondi.

Entra in gioco anche l'effetto orientamento attentivo: le frecce sono uno dei simboli più potenti per il cervello umano, senza ragionamento (vedi sopra).

Una freccia:
• orienta automaticamente lo sguardo
• modifica la distribuzione dell’attenzione
• induce una preparazione motoria nella direzione indicata

In parole semplici, il cervello inizia a “muoversi” prima ancora del nostro corpo, prima ancora di essere coscienti di quel che dobbiamo fare.

Non ultima, c'è una grande alleata del #marketing - e dello spirito! La riduzione dell’incertezza.

L’incertezza spaziale genera stress e quando il cervello non sa dove andare:

• aumenta il consumo cognitivo
• cresce il livello di #cortisolo
• diminuisce la soddisfazione dell’esperienza

Ecco, questa installazione elimina quasi completamente l’ambiguità.

Da ricordare anche che questo tipo di aree di servizio può confondere dopo una media permanenza: da che parte si esce? La macchina sta verso Lucerna o verso Milano? Se esco da qui e non trovo la macchina, sono dalla parte giusta?

Qui arriva il livello più alto della comunicazione visiva: il messaggio smette di essere informazione e diventa comportamento.

Considerations on cognitive load and organisational structure in sociotechnical systems.
A blog by Martijn Ras

In this article we present our rule of thumb for the sizing of solutions based on what an organisation can handle. Our primary goal is to make you aware of cognitive load theory and sociological considerations on organisational structure. Be...

#dev #softwaredevelopment #TeamTopologies #Cognitiveload #Sociotechnicalsystems #Domain-drivendesign #Agilescaling

https://jdriven.com/blog/2026/04/sizing-solutions/

Designing for people with anxiety

"Most of us will experience anxiety at some point, sometimes triggered by a stressful moment, other times as a chronic condition. By taking thoughtful, intentional steps, we can ensure our designs at the most reduce stress, and the very least, do not contribute to or amplify it further."

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/03/10/designing-for-people-with-anxiety/

#webDesign #inclusiveDesign #cognitiveLoad #userExperience #WCAG

Media producers have a #bias. Would be nice to have a #tool that assists with our #mediaconsumption. Not so much as a #censor, but as an informer. An #app that pre-digests #content, and then serves it with additional information to understand what and why something is presented to us, in a specific manner. All with the aim to reduce #cognitiveload and supporting #criticalthinking powered consumption of media consumption, in a #content #saturated #environment.

"Instead of simply typing a message to your friend and pressing the send button, you have to spend some cognitive energy trying to remember which messaging app that friend prefers to use, then switch to that app, find the message thread, THEN you can pick up the conversation."

@Adam, 2022

https://bookofadamz.com/the-smartest-messaging-method-is-not-a-segregated-mess-of-whatsapp-signal-telegram-sms-slack-teams-facebook-instagram-wechat-etc

(1/?)

#chat #CognitiveLoad

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
“AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in parallel, or reviving long-deferred tasks because AI could “handle them” in the background. They did this, in part, because they felt they had a “partner” that could help them move through their workload.

While this sense of having a “partner” enabled a feeling of momentum, the reality was a continual switching of attention, frequent checking of #AI outputs, and a growing number of open tasks. This created #cognitiveload and a sense of always juggling
… What looks like higher #productivity in the short run can mask silent workload creep and growing cognitive strain as employees juggle multiple AI-enabled workflows
… overwork can impair judgment, increase the likelihood of errors, and make it harder for organizations to distinguish genuine productivity gains from unsustainable intensity
… the cumulative effect is fatigue, #burnout, and a growing sense that work is harder to step away from, especially as organizational expectations for speed and responsiveness rise."
#LaborEcon

Having just undergone foot #surgery, I'd say yes -

Nike Says Its New Shoes Can Alter Your Mind. A Neuroscientist Weighs in. https://www.sciencealert.com/nike-says-its-new-shoes-can-alter-your-mind-a-neuroscientist-weighs-in

#bunions #embodiedcognition #somatosensorycortex #proprioception #cognitiveload

Operating System Friction

https://islandinthenet.com/operating-system-friction/

Shutting Out the Noise

https://www.brittanynwoods.com/blog/shutting-out-the-noise

#CognitiveLoad #SocialMedia

C’è una solitudine di cui si parla poco.
Non è stare senza nessuno.
È stare insieme riducendosi.

Succede anche nelle relazioni sociali.
Quando il cervello non smette mai di lavorare, stare insieme diventa adattamento.

🦔

#neurodivergenza 
#autismoadulto 
#relazionisociali
#neurodiversity 
#socialfatigue 
#cognitiveload 
#michiyospace

https://michiyospace.altervista.org/la-solitudine-cognitiva/

Entstigmatisierung mit Games – Podcast E122

Mit Games Vorurteile abbauen, über Mental Health-Themen wie Depression oder Psychosen lernen und Betroffene besser verstehen – gelingt Entstigmatisierung durchs Spielen? Mit Dr. Marco Rüth diskutieren wir die Forschungslage mitsamt seiner eigenen, frisch publizierten Studie und überlegen, ob es ein perfektes Game zur Entstigmatisierung geben könnte.

Bild: Duru, Twisted Ramble Games

Zu Gast

• Dr. Marco Rüth | Linktree

Hosts

• Dr. Benjamin Strobel, Jessica Kathmann | Behind the Screens

TLDR

Transkript für Folge 122 herunterladen

00:00:00 Intro und Begrüßung von Marco
00:08:30 Was ist ein Stigma? Welche Auswirkungen kann Stigmatisierung haben?
00:16:48 Wie gelingt Entstigmatisierung
00:21:35 Marcos Studie: Mit dem Game Duru über Depression lernen
00:43:59 Ergebnisse von Marcos Studie
00:47:32 Welchen Einfluss hat es, ob man ein Spiel selbst spielt oder nur ein Video davon sieht?
01:07:15 Wie müsste ein Spiel gestaltet sein, damit es entstigmatisierend wirken kann?
01:24:37 Fazit und Abmoderation

Psychologie und Konzepte

• Nostalgie
• Stigma
• Entstigmatisierung
• Mental Health
• Depression
• Cognitive Bias
• Ingroup-Bias
• Theorie der sozialen Identität
• Halo-Effekt
• Stereotypen
• Kontakthypothese
• Systemische Therapie
• Psychoedukation
• Stimulus (Experiment)
• Think Aloud-Protokoll
• Cognitive Load
• Alptraum
• Prozedurale Rhetorik
• Pacing (Game Design)
• Verfügbarkeitsheuristik
• Priming

Literatur und weitere Links

• Learning about depression by watching gaming videos: a case study on the potential of digital games for psychoeducation and destigmatization (Rüth et al., 2025)
• Games, was können wir aus euren Erzählungen lernen? Über die Rolle von Erzählungen beim Lernen mit digitalen Spielen (Rüth, 2025)
• Conceptualizing and measuring mental illness stigma: The mental illness stigma framework and critical review of measures. (Fox et al., 2018)
• Entstigmatisierung psychischer Erkrankungen: Scoping Review zu Interventionen und Bestandsaufnahme von Best-Practice-Beispielen (Kerkemeyer et al., 2022)
• Entstigmatisierung psychischer Erkrankungen. Scoping Review zu Interventionen und Bestandsaufnahme von Best-Practice-Beispielen. Ergebnisbericht. (Kerkemeyer & Achtert, 2021)
• Flow and Immersion in Video Games: The Aftermath of a Conceptual Challenge (Michailidis et al., 2018)
• Reducing Mental Health Stigma Through Identification With Video Game Avatars With Mental Illness (Ferchaud et al., 2020)
• Stigmatisierung im Gesundheitssystem (Jiménez et al., 2023)
• Repräsentation in Games – Podcast E035 – Behind the Screens
• Depression in Duru – Podcast E022 – Behind the Screens

Games

• Duru
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

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#Albtraum #Alptraum #CognitiveBias #CognitiveLoad #Depression #Entstigmatisierung #HaloEffekt #IngroupBias #Kontakthypothese #MentalHealth #Nostalgie #PacingGameDesign_ #ProzeduraleRhetorik #Psychoedukation #Stereotypen #Stigma #StimulusExperiment_ #SystemischeTherapie #TheorieDerSozialenIdentität #ThinkAloudProtokoll #Verfügbarkeitsheuristik

Cognitive Load is what matters

https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

#HackerNews #CognitiveLoad #CognitiveScience #LearningTech #Education #Psychology

🎤 Dmitrii Ivanov spoke at Appdevcon!

The talk 'Beyond the Code: Identifying and Reducing Complexity in Software Design' is now live!💪 🚀

🎥 Watch it here: https://appdevcon.nl/session/beyond-the-code-identifying-and-reducing-complexity-in-software-design/

#adc25 #bestpractice #architecture #cognitiveload #complexity #appdevcon

What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds than normal
#FastPlayback #DigitalLearning #CognitiveLoad #MemoryRecall #BrainHealth #OnlineLearning #VideoSpeed #EdTech #AttentionSpan #LearningScience #Neuroscience #MentalFatigue
https://the-14.com/what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-watch-videos-online-at-faster-speeds-than-normal/

"The real innovation, the sustainable progress, comes from maintaining deep understanding while embracing AI's capabilities."

#softwareengineering #cognitiveload #vibecoding

https://nmn.gl/blog/dangers-vibe-coding