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===External Research ===When researching our topic, Change Blindness, we found a document upon document on this topic. Out of the great many references that helped us steer documents we found, we choose 7 (seven) documents to focus on. After reading each document, we decided upon 5 (five) documents. One (1) was dismissed due to grammatical errors, and the other was dismissed due to repetitiveness. With the remaining five (5) documents in hand, we settled upon what our tests to test what they didwill cover, which is "Can users notice one thing while being occupied on by another?". We ended up with Below, the five (5) references, each covering a "different" aspect of change blindness [insert aspect]. Two (2) references (which happened to documents will be our top two choices) where Current Approaches to Change Blindness, and Change Blindness as a result of mud-splashes. The first two (2) references follow abductive reasoning, while the last three (3) are deductivediscussed.
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[Summarize 3 -4 ]Our main document is called Current Approaches to Change Blindness, written by Daniel J. Simons of Harvard University. This document is a great overview to the topic of change blindness. This document also provides challenges to studying change blindness. For instance, for someone to notice that a change has occurred, they must be paying attention. But in the document, Mr. Simons states that "although attention appears to be necessary for change detection, it many not be sufficient" (Daniel J. Simons, Page 5). This means that regardless of you paying attention, you may not notice a sudden change, "All observers failed to notice when the central object in a brief motion picture (a soda bottle) was replaced by a box following a brief pan away from the table (Simons, 1996)" (Daniel J. Simons, Page 5). With this in mind, we started to form out test parameters.
[Explain relationship]Our second document is called Change-blindness as a result of mudsplashes, collaborated on by J. Kevin O'Regan, Ronald A. Rensink, and James J. Clark. This documents is actually an article from Nature, Volume 398, March 4th, 1999, page 34. This article is interesting, as it provides a study to help "validate" change blindness. It also follows closely with our own personal test, but along with a different path (pictures VS FaceBook). In the article, they displayed 48 pictures, for 3 seconds, with a 'mud splash' for exactly 80 milliseconds. Where as we displayed "notifications" (either by Liking a post, or posting something on the tester wall. After seeing the similarities between this and our initial idea for a test, our test appeared to be finalized. Our three remaining documents are Beyond the Grand Illusion, collaborated upon by Alva Noe of the University of California, Luiz Pessoa of the University of Rio De Janeiro, and Evan Thompson of York University. This document shows a more physical look at change blindness, including how human biology can be a factor. The second document is Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness, collaborated upon by Diane M. Beck, Geraint Rees, Christopher D. Frith and Nilli Lavie. This document talks about how research was done with MRI's to see how the brain reacts when experiencing change blindness. The final document is Change Blindness Blindness: The metacognitive Error of Overestimating Change-detection Ability, collaborated upon by Daniel T. Levin, Nausheen Momen, Sarah B. Drivdahl as well as Daniel J. Simons. This final article helped with our primary research the most, but does not pertain to our subject as much since it did not deal with our thesis. It was more of presenting findings from someone else's research.
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