Author: lwise

I am a cognitive scientist, psychologist, and online learning specialist with an interest in taekwon-do, web stuff, cycling, indoor soccer and sundry other things. My staff profile at Swinburne is at http://www.lilydale.swinburne.edu.au/staff/profiles/lwise.htm. My lab website is at http://mocapsuite.edublogs.org/. I have bursts of web activity, and then large lapses. And so it's been since Al Gore invented the internet.

Alienation

Julien Burnside on Alienation A really interesting analysis of people’s need to be acknowledged, among other things …

Misunderstanding information needs

When information you need finds you first A disturbing (to me) trend in misunderstanding the way that humans use information – it’s superficially a nice idea to think that technology could determine our information “needs”, but this whole notion discounts…

“Saving normal” links

Some things we should be thinking about as psychologists – these are the free versions of discussion on the topic of “Saving Normal”, the book I’ve been banging on about that is highly critical of DSM-V and the medicalisation, overdiagnosis…

Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics

Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics. Not sure if the link will work, but I just received a link to this article via a multisensory research group mailing list. As I understand it, these researchers are exploring the way that multisensory…

Voice recordings versus stenography

Interesting article from the abc website about technology versus old-school in the court room – might be of interest to you, Lucy? “If you’re typing from a digital tape then you don’t know [what you have missed] or there’s been…