Module 3 - Feedback, Errors, Forcing, Gestalt laws, Responsiveness

Slips personal examples:

Capture errors - In high school, someone called me on my cellphone in the middle of the night and woke me up. As I was used to wake up with the alarm clock in the early morning also from my mobile, I got up, got my stuff ready and started to go to school, walking to the bus stop. It was only half the way through I decided to check the time and realized it was still midnight.

Description errors - This weekend me and my classmate Antra went to the supermarket. I bought just a can of condensed milk and the woman at the counter gave me back the product and its receipt. In big supermarkets like Rimi or Prisma, they have some small bins for throwing away the receipt, and I am used to do that. But as I was talking to Antra and distracted, I threw the condensed milk can in the bin instead.

Data-driven errors - When multi-tasking and doing something else meanwhile chatting with someone in Skype or Facebook, is very common to write down something that I just read in another website in the chat, instead of writing it down what I am intending to say to the person I am speaking with.

Associative activation errors - I am not so sure if this example can be considered part of associative activation error, but I guess it fits the idea. It happens to me a lot, and even happened the day before yesterday.

I was talking to a friend from Portugal in our mother language (portuguese) and an estonian friend joined us, she wanted me to give her the mobile phone of another friend of our she needed to speak to. I started to search the person's information in my cellphone, while speaking portuguese, and when I found the number, I started to spell it to my estonian friend the number in portuguese, instead of english. It happens very often when I am using two languages at the same time: my brain creates an association of speaking, many times mixing two languages and having us talking in the other language than the one intended.

Loss-of-activation errors - Most common one to me. One of the most dramatical cases is once I went to school to do something and when I got there I forgot what I was suppose to do there. Luckily enough, I live near the school, but I was never able to remember what was I going to do that day.

Premature conclusion errors - My oven needs three actions to be turned of: temperature must be set to 0 degrees, power button must be switched off and the "floor" levels to be heated must also be put into none. Because my previous oven was different, I often forget to do the whole action, and only turn the power switch off, leaving the oven still warm until someone see is.

Mode errors - Sometimes when my Mac computer is in rest mode, I take it for grant it is actually turned off. So I long press the power button, and the device turns off instead of on.