3. Your mental model can be fooled

To show how your brain can be fooled into making assumptions about the world, look at this ordinary looking room below.

ames room

It is called the 'Ames room' and plays around with your metal model of what a room should be like.

CLICK HERE will take you to a wikipedia page that runs the video.

Your mental model insists that rooms have vertical walls and that floors are flat so you are surprised when the person changes size by simply walking around this distorted room.

The point as far as HCI design is concerned - make your interface as predictable as possible.

 

challenge see if you can find out one extra fact on this topic that we haven't already told you

Click on this link: The Ames room distorts perception