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*** Compare the results from the survey and the change blindness test to see if what people perceive they see matches what we saw.
* Conclusion
= Write up =
==Title==
Change Blindness in Web Pages
==Abstract==
This research essay will primarily focus on the effects of change blindness through examining one of the largest used and most heavily, on the fly, modified webpages out there, Facebook. [add more here at some later point]
==Key Words==
*Change blindness
*Attention to detail
*Conscious/unconscious thoughts
*Vision
*Daily routine
*User interfaces
==Introduction==
People are using social media more and more to be one of their primary means of communicating with other people. One of the major social media sites used by people is Facebook which, as of September 2011 (according to Wikipedia), has 800 million active users. Facebook is always introducing new features to allow people to keep in contact with others. Some of these features include instant chat between friends as well as small pop-up notifications and news feeds which inform the user about their friends activities. With all these features that Facebook developers are implementing, are they truly necessary and do the users who use Facebook actually make use of these features or are the developers spending their time developing features that for the typicaly Facebook user, they would never notice?
In the late 1970s, the first research into the new recognized phenomenon, change blindness began. According to Wikipedia, “change blindness is a normal phenomenon of the brain which show in light that the brain does not have a precise representation of the world but a lacunar one, made of partial details.” (Change Blindness wiki). In spite of its name, change blindness does not have to do with a person’s eyes but in fact how the brain perceives information. Research in this phenomenon is still fairly new, however the research “suggests that the brain estimates the importance and usefulness of informations prior to deciding to store them or not. Another issue is that the brain cannot see a change happening to an element that it has not yet stored” (Change Blindness wiki).
==Context==
==Purpose==
The purpose of this essay was to explore whether or not the effects of change blindness affect users of web pages as part of our BTH
==Interpretations==
==Thesis Statement==
How do the effects of change blindness affect the usability of Facebook?
==Body==
==Conclusion==
==References==