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Sensation

Sensation

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Sensation

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- [Instructor] As we move deeper into the interaction design model, we shift from context, environment, goals and objectives to how individuals perceive, understand, feel, and to act in this situation. Let's take a deeper look at these five areas of psychology and how they are relevant to interaction design. Perception is the process of becoming aware of something through the senses. We see, hear and feel the products we are using. Sensation and perception are very closely connected so we'll be discussing them together and clarifying the subtle distinction between sensing and perceiving. Our senses are vision, hearing, touch and proprioception, but we tend to focus on just four. Vision because we look at interfaces, hearing because we listen to audio feedback in spoken text, touch and haptic, we feel vibrations and the texture of surfaces when we interact with interfaces and devices and proprioception, we intrinsically know…

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